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India is in election mode, and the Narendra Modi government takes special care of big companies that are not only helping the BJP through finance, especially through electoral bonds, but also through making favourable propaganda on behalf of the government. In the pre-election year 2022-23, Rs 2.09 lakh crore loans taken by them had been written off.

KOLKATA: Congress national leadership has a tough task ahead of it to make some of its West Bengal unit leaders cooperate with Trinamool Congress in 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Given earlier intra-party differences coupled with panchayat election clashes, the bonhomie between Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee and former Congress chiefs Sonia and Rahul Gandhi at the Opposition meet at Bengaluru is yet to percolate to several state Congress leaders.

We can do without #ModiVsChandrachud, the entire lot of us bifurcated people of India. The fight is not imaginary and is not limited to social media alone. The perception that the CJI is waging an all-out war against the Prime Minister and is weighing in on the side of the opposition is a more or less settled thesis. CJI DY Chandrachud is getting massively trolled by the rightwing and every decision he is taking is going under the lens with judgement delivered on the spot.

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh BJP its main rival Samajwadi Party are busy in building up alliances with smaller parties and various caste groups to capture maximum seats for 2024 Lok Sabha polls from the state. UP sends 80 MP’s to Lok Sabha.

As the dates of the Vidhan Sabha elections are approaching, both the BJP and Congress, the two major contenders have stepped up their propaganda. They are bringing their stalwarts to influence the voters in their favour. The Congress is using the charismatic personality of Priyanka Gandhi and holding public meetings to be addressed by her. The first such public meeting was held in Jabalpur and the next was held in Gwalior, the area where Jyotiraditya Scindia wields considerable influence.

Ethnic violence has thrown Manipur, India's attractive state bordering Myanmar, into turmoil. Persistent clashes between the Meiteis and Kukis for over two months have left both feeling besieged. The neighboring villages of these communities appear to be particularly susceptible to attacks.

Several recent studies have claimed that India has made significant progress in reducing poverty during the decades leading up to the pandemic in 2020, however, a recent Staff Paper prepared in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says that the magnitude of the decline in poverty over the past decade is highly uncertain given the lack of official household expenditure data after 2011. It means, for the entire period under PM Narendra Modi’s regime, there are only government’s claims of reduction of poverty but no government data to substantiate such claims.

New Delhi: The 132nd edition of the Asia's oldest football tournament, the Durand Cup featuring 24 teams will commence on August 3.

It can happen only in India when wholesale prices shoot up and retail prices drop sharply. Or, when consumer prices flare up, wholesale prices are deeply depressed. Ordinarily, they may look somewhat absurd, but are often seen as true by the data provided under India’s government-run price indices such as the wholesale price index (WPI) and consumer price index (CPI). Take for instance, the data released by the government in March, 2022, showing that the wholesale inflation (WPI) in the country rose to 13.11 percent in February while the retail inflation (CPI) was down to as much as 6.07 percent that month.

New Delhi: A 16-member Indian women's softball team is all set to debut at the 19th Asian Games to be held in Hangzhou, China, in September-October.