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Robust growth in 2nd quarter GDP of 2023-24 (July-September) vindicates that India is resilient to global sanction, protecting its strong economic fundamentals. India pinned continuous growth in GDP in all quarters since January 2023, despite global sanction was imposed on Russia in December 2022 and India had to deal with Russia as a major trading nation.

It is welcome that over 80000 participants from around the globe have gathered in Dubai to deliberate on the strategies to mitigate the climate crisis which if not checked would be catastrophic. The event is happening at a time when just at a distance of 2600 kilo meters an appalling humanitarian crisis is unfolding as a result of bombing on the innocent civilians by the Israel in Gaza. This has killed over 16000 Palestinians of which 70 % are women and children and it has caused total destruction of the infrastructure making the people homeless.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the BJP victories in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh were because of ‘team spirit’ in the Bharatiya Janata Party. Is that so, who is the Prime Minister fooling? Team spirit is the last thing in the saffron party. Team spirit goes for a toss when everything that moves in the BJP is on the dictates of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the only one in the BJP who can say “no”.

LUCKNOW: Being the main opposition party in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav is on the driving seat of INDIA bloc. Much significance is being attached to the statement of Akhilesh Yadav that INDIA got more strength after recent assembly polls.

Making no secret of any love being lost for each other, Trinamool Congress seeks to upstage BJP on what the saffron camp considers to be its sole preserve - religion. An outfit stated to be close to the ruling dispensation of West Bengal has planned to organise a Chandi Path programme days before a Gita Path programme by an organisation. stated to be close to BJP on December 24 at Brigade Parade Ground. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be attending this BJP sponsored programme.

UN Climate Change Conference – United Arab Emirates (COP28) (November 30 – December 12, 2023), that began with first major milestone on the day-one, relapsed midway into politics, that prompted a disheartening comment by UN climate chief Simon Stiell that COP28 delegates are not in Dubai to “score points” and play at “lowest-denominator politics” adding that they must take ambitious action on curbing global warming and ending the climate crisis.

The wisdom of pursuing a strategy of export-led growth has been discussed among development economists for at least half a century, ever since the so-called East Asian “miracle” started to be contrasted with the comparatively sluggish growth experience of countries like India that were pursuing, in the World Bank’s language, an “inward looking” development strategy. This entire discussion however has missed an element that plays a crucial role in real life.

New Delhi: Playing to a plan strong contender Spain overwhelmed two-time champion India 4-1 in a pool C match of the FIH junior men’s hockey World Cup in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.

It was Narayan Murthy, the software icon who had said in 2020 that working hours for the toilers should be stretched up to sixty hours. In 2023, he went further and said the working hours must be taken to seventy hours. And now he has come up with an idea that nothing should be given free. Murthy suggested that since India is still in development process, to get financial assistance to move further, it is imperative to have higher taxation compared to developed countries.

All through 2023 the conflict in Ukraine has been drifting towards deadlock. As the year draws to a close the military positions remain very much where they were at its start.