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New Delhi: Ace midfielder Salima Tete who won the Hockey India Balbir Singh Sr. Award for being the best woman player of The Year 2023 says, "it feels great to be recognized with the huge for the first time in my career."

New Delhi: Ace shuttler HS Prannoy and promising Anmol Kharab will spearhead 10 member Indian challenge in the Thomas and Uber Cup finals to be played in Chengdu China from 27 April to 5 May.

‘India is Rising’ – Prime Minister Narendra Modi goes on telling people during his election campaigns and giving guarantee for a Developed India by 2047. However, the latest World Bank report on ‘Job for Resilience’, the latest South Asia Development update, a twice-a-year regional outlook reveals that in Modi’s Rising India, there are only limited opportunities for employment to grow for common people, while output growth is expected to reach as high as 7.5% in 2023-24 before returning to 6.6% over the medium term. It means we have a jobless growth in India, a best example of squandering of the demographic dividend.

The election manifesto of the CPI(M) for the Lok Sabha elections has raised an important issue which has a vital bearing on India’s democracy and the fundamental rights of citizens. This concerns the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and how it operates under the jurisdiction of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

With no real third option, it’s most likely going to be a direct electoral fight between the BJP-led NDA and the Samajwadi Party-Congress INDIA bloc in Uttar Pradesh in the upcoming Lok Sabha 2024 elections, with vacillating BSP of Mayawati fashioning a perception of uncertainty amongst the voters and also between the two warring camps.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no denying it. The Supreme Court’s reference to a Constitution Bench the question raised by Kerala whether a State had an ‘enforceable right’ to raise its borrowing limits from the Union Government and other sources, constitutes a big morale-boosting victory for the cash-strapped State.

The world was stunned by the horrific events that unfolded at the Crocus City Hall, a concert venue located in Krasnogorsk on the outskirts of Moscow, when four militants armed with automatic weapons and explosive devices launched a violent attack. As people tried to escape, the chaos was captured on video, showing them running from a barrage of gunfire and the grim scene of fatalities. The Islamic State later acknowledged orchestrating this violent act through statements on its media channels. Additionally, they distributed harrowing footage recorded by the attackers themselves, displaying the ruthless killing and in some instances, the disfigurement of victims as the attackers navigated the venue.

We are living in a time zone when our children, hardly within three months time, learn to live without anything, solid or liquid. They consume their own strength as nourishment and manage to survive. Who will own up the crime? Perhaps it is a living reproach to the entire civilisation.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi filed his nomination from the minority-dominated Wayanad parliamentary constituency of Kerala, angering INDIA allies , a partner of INDIA bloc CPI, which has its own candidate contesting from the constituency. Wayanad constituency actually has a sizable Muslim electorate and a section of the Muslim-centric Malappuram district is also part of the constituency. And this time, the Congress is claiming that Muslims are fiercely pro-Congress, adamant that the Constitution had been under constant attack under the Modi regime and it was upon the Congress an the INDIA bloc to save democracy.

Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana, and West Bengal have lately been emanating conflicting political signals. These states send 328 MPs in the Lok Sabha, and are inching forward with a potentially decisive election results in election 2024, which make or mar the possibility of PM Narendra Modi’s return to power for his third term.