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Uncertainty in Global labour market is likely to continue while unemployment is set to rise in 2024. Growing inequality and stagnant productivity will also be cause of concern on the economic front, especially at a time when the global economy is on track for the slowest half-decade of growth in 30 years.

Milind Deora s/o Murli Deora on Sunday joined the Shiv Sena of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, the first casualty of seat-sharing in Maharashtra thanks to the Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray Shiv Sena which laid claim to the Mumbai South parliamentary constituency from which Milind Deora used to represent the Congress in Parliament before the Modi onslaught in 2014.

In more than one way, the past year would go down in the annals of the famed Darjeeling tea industry, which though infinitely smaller in terms of production than its counterparts elsewhere in the country and abroad as annushorribilis. Production of tea in the hills of Darjeeling slid a worryingly around 9 per cent to about 6.3 million kg in 2023. The exact production fall will be known when December plucking and manufacture figures are available. In any case, the cold December when flushing of tea leaves don’t happen is a marginal month in terms of plucking. Quality of the hill origin beverage that begins to turn indifferent at the end of the second flush with the onset of monsoon turns even flatter during the year-end. December neither contributes of any significance to revenue nor to profits with harvesting limited to around 60,000 kg and quality not in line with the hill produce in preceding months.

Idol of Ram as a child will be installed in the sanctum sanctorum on January 22, in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s presence. The consecration will mark an epochal change in India’s history.

Moon mission records suggest that reaching the moon's surface is still not easy. The Vulcan Centaur rocket launched perfectly early Monday ,8th of January, morning from Cape Canaveral. It quickly left the solid rocket boosters behind and set the Peregrine spacecraft on the right path for its important journey to the moon.

Mumbai is facing a severe housing crisis, with a growing population and a dire need for affordable homes. In the midst of this crisis lies approximately 5500 acres of salt pan land, the subject of intense debate between proponents of affordable housing and environmentalists concerned about the city's ecosystem. Environmentalists emphasize the significance of salt pan land for Mumbai's ecosystem, highlighting its role in flood protection and as a habitat for migratory birds. They assert that using this land for housing would jeopardize the delicate balance of the environment and its associated services.

The opposition INDI-Alliance is confident that unity among opposition parties will fetch easy victories against the Bharatiya Janata Party in the majority of the 543 constituencies in 2024 because in 2019, Modi’s victorious party could get only 38 percent of the total votes polled, while the remaining 62 percent were “cast against” the BJP and, therefore, fell in the Opposition kitty.

Now there is no more ambiguity. For almost a week, the four Shankaracharyas, the symbols of the Sanatan Dharma, are being ridiculed and humiliated at every public forum. The situation certainly did not acquire a nasty dimension all of a sudden. The manner in which the RSS and BJP have been denigrating and insulting the four Shankaracharyas and presenting them as anti-Hindu, was planned long before issuing invitation letter for the still incomplete Ram temple consecration in Ayodhya.

What has Ramlala in Ayodhya to do with Mumtaz Khan in Purulia? The question seems to be absurd and ridiculous on the surface, but when the Chief Priest of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Pujya Acharya Satyendra Das, recalls Mumtaz Khan while consecration rituals are under way, the question become important.

On 22 January 2024, India will change forever. It’s a misstep we may never recover from, a change triggered by a temple.