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According to a NITI Aayog survey report, Gujarat is failing in reduction of poverty despite emerging as the fastest growing state in industrialization. The ranking of Gujarat in poverty alleviation is even lower than West Bengal - one of the poorest states in the country. Gujarat ranked 16withpopulation living below Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in 2019-21. West Bengal was above Gujarat, ranking 15th. In Gujarat, population below MPI was 9.03 percent and in West Bengal, it was 8.60 percent.

“Indian-American” Nikki Haley’s race against “American-American” Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination was belly up in all Super Tuesday states. The exception being Vermont, where even conservatives largely vote liberal. But after the votes were cast and the votes were counted, Trump hadn’t clinched the threshold of 2015 delegates required to be named Republican presidential nominee.

Last month the Taliban's Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai while attending a public program said that there is an absence of an official border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He further said that Afghanistan will never recognize the Durand Line as its official border with Pakistan.

In a visionary move that reshapes the traditional Hollywood financing landscape, Paul Scanlan and Jeff Annison materialized their brainchild, Legion M, not merely as a production studio but as a thriving community. Breaking away from the conventional model, Legion M is part of a Hollywood transformation that embraces crowdfunding, allowing film and television producers to seek donations while providing investors with substantial returns beyond exclusive merchandise, CNBC reported recently.

Gawa, originating from a Mizo village in Myanmar close to the Indian border, escaped in December after her village was destroyed by fire. Now, as a mother of two, she is among the numerous individuals seeking shelter along the border, attempting to escape the intensifying civil conflict in Myanmar.

The State Bank of India’s plea to the Supreme Court seeking extension of time till June 30 this year to disclose details of electoral bonds encashed by political parties instead of March 6 as ordered by the apex court is nothing but a sordid attempt by the Finance Ministry to save the ruling party from acute embarrassment before the Lok Sabha elections due in April/May this year.

The seven day session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) of China began in Beijing on March 5 with the whole world, especially the international financial institutions like World Bank and IMF monitoring and analyzing every statement made by the Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang on the plans for the regeneration of the economy after some setbacks in 2022 and 2023. LI’s work report presented during the day on the economic policies to be pursued in 2024 portrayed a picture of strong confidence in the goal of the Chinese Communist Party to emerge as the largest economy of the world surpassing the USA within a short period.

Union government led by PM Narendra Modi has come out with “Key Employment Unemployment Indicators” for 2023 just on the eve of Lok Sabha election 2024, to present a rosy picture on “declining unemployment” since 2021 in India. Media headlines declared unemployment rate declined to the lowest to 3.1 per cent, a figure that one cannot reconcile with, since it gives a partial picture of the reality on the ground. The document also gives a figure of unemployment in the country in 2023 at 5 per cent, but could not make in the headlines of the media.

No family for Narendra Modi’ sounds innocuous enough. So why is the BJP making a hue and cry over Lalu Prasad Yadav pointing this out at the March 3 Patna INDI-Alliance Maharally? Lalu’s comment spawned 'Modi Ka Parivar', which the BJP says will be Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ticket to a third straight term.

Shehbaz Sharif, on taking charge as prime minister of a new Pakistani dispensation has raked up the Kashmir issue even as he finds himself presiding over a precarious economy with the country's situation worsened by sharp polarisation and a fraught security system. Pakistan in so many words is in choppy waters.