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New Delhi: India continued their unbeaten run on the tour with a dominating 3-0 win over the hosts South Africa in Cape Town.

Mapusa (Goa): In-form paddler Sreeja Akula registered a commanding victory to move into the women's singles quarter-finals of the ongoing World Table Tennis (WTT) Star Contender while Manika Batra and Archana Kamath suffered defeats in their respective last-8 matches at the Peddem Indoor Stadium in Mapusa, Goa on Saturday.

Amidst the happenings in Bihar where Nitish Kumar is doing what he does best, i.e., lodge a new government with another coalition partner with himself remaining Chief Minister of the remodelled dispensation, which is more like a reshuffle than an overthrow or a change of government, comes an allegation from none other than Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal that “7 AAP MLAs have been threatened and offered Rs 25 crore (each) to topple the Delhi government.”

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Central investigation agency, Enforcement Directorate(ED), which has been accused of acting as a political tool in the hands of the Union Government, has been at the receiving end in Kerala besides Bengal.

Sports especially the outdoor ones like lawn tennis is both a mind and a body game. While some men and women sportspersons call it a day at the peak of their careers, there are exceptions who not only soldier on but continue to win more laurels. Rohan Bopanna, 43 who was awarded with Padmashree this Republic Day is one such rare person.

The deterioration in recent weeks of the security situation in the Red Sea, where Yemen-based Houthi militia in support of Palestine have disrupted global trade by launching drone and missile attacks on vessels, is posing a geopolitical risk to LNG prices.

While the maverick Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is set to part with INDIA bloc posing question about the future of the alliance in the state, the top leaders of alliance held a mini-INDIA meet in Tamil Nadu pledging to defeat the BJP. Displaying the adroitness of the INDIA bloc, Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin emphasised that INDIA bloc leaders have to realise that when the BJP was rattled at the prospect of a win for the Opposition alliance even at the level of a mayor poll in Chandigarh, unity among constituents will dislodge the saffron party from power at the Centre.

The much-awaited order from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague in the case of genocide by the State of Israel against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, brought before the world court by the Republic of South Africa, came out on 26 January 2024 and it’s crystal clear: Tel Aviv must stop its genocide of the Palestinians immediately. The court, in a set of near unanimous decisions from 17 judges, including two ad-hoc ones each from Israel and South Africa (by 15-2, and/or 16-1 majority decisions) instructed Israel to adhere to its obligations under the ‘Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.’ The Hague asked Tel Aviv to stop the killing of Palestinians, stop inflicting serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, stop “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”; stop “imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group”, among other provisional measures.

Pre-election Interim Union Budget 2024-25 may not be expected to be different than one of the kinds that was tabled in 2019 by the PM Narendra Modi led government when the Union Government did not restrict itself only to passage of the vote on account, but went beyond to announce spectacular surprises to tempt various sections of the populace, including the workforce. Unemployment data was leaked 45 years high at 6.1 per cent, which is even higher at 7.4 per cent as per the CMIE data for January 27, 2024 on the basis of 30-day moving average, which was as high as 10.5 per cent in October 2023. Working class is more angry today compared to 2019, and is on the war path campaigning with the slogan “Defeat Modi, Save India”, on account of PM Modi’s policies that the joint front of Central Trade Unions has dubbed as ‘anti-labour’.

The two daughters of legendary musician and sitar player Pandit Ravi Shankar are making waves with their scintillating and soulful music. Perhaps the best contribution of Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar is his two daughters – Anoushka Shankar and Norah Jones. Anoushka is currently on an India tour and has performed in Bengaluru (January 22), Hyderabad (January 24), and Mumbai (January 25). She performed in Pune (January 26) and again in Mumbai (January 27) before concluding her India tour with a show in Delhi on January 31.