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New Delhi: Olympian Manu Bhaker finished fifth in the 25m pistol event and in the process, secured a Paris Olympic quota for India at the Asian Shooting Championships in Changwon, Korea on Saturday.

“Is not he a man”? Sonia Gandhi was said to have exclaimed at a meeting of the party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) earlier last week. There was a deathly silence in the room. “Aren’t there corruption charges against him?

Infosys founder Narayana Murthy’s call to the youth of the nation to declare ‘this is my country, I want to work for 70 hours a week’ has created such a storm that it has elicited response from every section of the society, including the veteran technocrat’s peers, employers, corporate personalities and of course the working class. Most of it is negative and far removed from what Murthy may have envisaged when he made the call. The main ground for objection is whether the additional work would be compensated in terms of salary and other benefits.

In a recent political development that could potentially reshape the dynamics in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), the Maldives elected a new President, Mohamed Muizzu, 45, of the People’s National Congress (PNC) on September 30, 2023. Muizzu’s victory marked a significant shift in the nation’s foreign policy and raised concerns about the delicate balance of power in the region.

The peculiarity of Hamas-Israel war is that unlike other wars or conflict, India do not succumb to the direct impact of the war. It is the spillover impact, which causes concern. Israel is not a major trading partner or major foreign investor in India. Neither, Palestine is. Israel accounts for less than 2 percent of India’s total trade. Trade between India and Palestine is not conducted directly. It is through Israel. Therefore, comprehensive trade statistics with Palestine are not available. However, according to an estimation by Ministry of External affairs, India-Palestine bilateral trade was US$ 67.7 million in 2020.

The Modi establishment, which takes pride in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “muscular foreign policy”, recently took Canada to task and bent Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Modi’s will. Prime Minister Narendra Modi now has the challenging task of bringing home eight retired Indian Navy officers sentenced to death in Qatar, the tiny Gulf country with more LNG in its belly than mercy in its ruler’s big heart.

Centre’s big claims on employment generation under PM Narendra Modi regime since 2014 is once again exposed. The recently released government’s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2022-23 has revealed that both the employment and unemployment situation in the country remains a matter of serious concern.

October 31 is approaching, the day of foundation of the first national level organization of trade unions in India. A collective of trade unions from all sectors, formal and informal, gathered at Bombay and AITUC was founded with Lala Lajpat Rai, a tall leader of the freedom movement at that time, as its Founding President.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has finally broken his silence over seat-sharing in the five poll bound states going to polls in November, but only to express party’s confident mood. “We will see this. Let the 5-state election take place first,” Kharge has said implying that there will be no seat-sharing arrangement for the Vidhan Sabha elections.

BHOPAL: As the electioneering picks up heat, political parties are using abusing language against each other. The BJP calls Congress leaders Ravana, the Congress too pays in the same coin. The position is worst at local level.