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Even as battle lines are being drawn up for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections all over the country, culture is poised to play a significant role in this polls in West Bengal. Though the state is no longer in the preeminent position it once occupied in the cultural field, Trinamool Congress, BJP and CPI(M) are readying their culture brigade to give them an intellectual dominance numerical superiority over their political rivals.

As 2024 begins, it is nearly impossible to predict how Germany’s political landscape will look in twelve months’ time. 2024 will not only see June’s European elections, but also decisive contests this fall in the Eastern states of Thuringia, Saxony, and Brandenburg. Much of the uncertainty owes to former Die Linke (The Left) politician Sahra Wagenknecht — and her attempt to build a new party, which aims to enter all four races.

Congress Party's responsibilities have increased with the decision of the I.N.D.I.A. bloc Opposition coalition to name Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge as the President. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has declined the post of convenor.

India is facing rising industrial concentration in just five hands, and is enriching billionaires, private equity funds, and crony capitalists driving unprecedented level of inequalities and poverty among people. Dalits are facing high and unaffordable out-of-pocket fees in the private healthcare sector, financial exclusion in the private healthcare sector, and overt discrimination in both.

BSP chief Mayawati continues to be an enigma. Till Monday morning, she was sending out signal to the leaders of INDIA bloc, especially to SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, that she was ready to ride the bandwagon of INDIA. But by noon she made a volte-face and shocked the opposition leaders by saying that her party would go it alone in elections.

Rahul Gandhi’s 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' is going ahead with its goal to bring peace to all the places through which it passes. Also fight for justice to people of all colour, creed and caste. It started in the violence-hit Manipur where both the Kuki and Meitei communities believed Rahul Gandhi had the potential and promise to unify. At least that is what Congress general-secretary K C Venugopal, who shadows Rahul Gandhi like the sun the earth, voiced at the end of ‘Day 1’ of the 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra', which set out on its 67-day long journey on January 14.

Once dubbed ‘troublemaker’ and a ‘dangerous separatist’ by Beijing for his views on Taiwan’s sovereignty, 64-year-old vice-president, son of a miner and doctor-politician William Lai Ching-te has now been chosen Taiwan’s next president. His immediate task on hand is to navigate Taiwan’s testy relationship with China despite Beijing’s exhortations not to vote for him since he will bring “severe danger” to cross-strait relations, as quoted by a Washington Post report.

New Delhi: Reigning Commonwealth Games champion Lakshya Sen and Asian Games bronze medallist HS Prannoy on Monday admitted that points earned in the Super 750 status of the Yonex-Sunrise India Open in the tournament will play a crucial role in the Paris Olympics qualification.

Ranchi: Pumped up by their impressive 3-1 win over New Zealand, India is eyeing a big win as they take on lowly Italy in their last league match of the Olympic Hockey Qualifiers here on Tuesday.

The new year’s best news for India, is that the Saudi Arabia-led Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is fast losing its grip on the market with a number of countries willing to offer prices even lower than those fixed for Russian crude. Saudi Arabia itself has cut down crude oil prices to boost sales this year. With Russia threatening to overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest crude oil exporter, few oil exporting nations are interested in the routine practice of cutting production to stabilise oil prices. In 2023, Russia was neck and neck with Saudi Arabia in oil export. The Arab country does no longer control the global oil market. Saudi Aramco has already cut down the official selling price of flagship Arab light crude for Asia to their lowest in 27 months. Saudi Arabia has also pruned prices for North America, North West Europe and the Mediterranean. Asia’s top five oil importers are China, India, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. The Indian government must ensure that domestic oil companies pass on the benefit to end consumers.