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Republican presidential nominee hopeful Nikki Haley proved once again that she remains the American liberal media’s candidate to prop up. Thursday Haley and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis honed further their debating skills at the CNN GOP Presidential debate in Iowa and Nikki won approval from the mainstream media while Ron DeSantis was the Social Media favourite. Also, Nikki Haley got a boost when fellow aspirant, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, dropped out of the race and the advantage went to Haley.

Hinduism is a religion, but Hindutva is politics. Former is rooted in religiosity, but the later in hate politics as practiced by RSS-BJP clan. ‘Jai Sri Ram’ had been a religious and pious expression in Hinduism, but RSS-BJP clan has been misusing this as a tool against their opponents to tease and provoke, and to malign everyone opposing their hate politics. Now the world is witnessing how even the consecration of Ramlala, a most pious and religious event in Hinduism, is being defiled by injecting hate politics in it. RSS-BJP clan is bent upon playing their Hindutva politics and their leader Narendra Modi, who is our Prime Minister on oath of ‘secularism’, will be violating his own oath to inaugurate the Ram Temple at Ayodhya on January 22, 2024.

After fiddling with the Indian economy for years, Raghuram Rajan, former governor of Reserve Bank of India, finds himself in a kind of Hamlet moment. Rajan had observed that India would be lucky to reach a 5% growth rate during the current fiscal year. He was heaped with criticism for his pessimism and downside projections.

So far the RSS and BJP have been working on their plan to rupture the social relation between Hindus and Muslims, but now in the wake of the consecration of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya on January 22 differences have cropped up among the Hindus between those believing Sanatan ideology and the devotees of BJP’s line of political Hindutva.

It was a judgment that was eagerly awaited by many who saw it as a litmus test of whether the diminishing flames of hope in the judiciary’s ability to deliver justice would be snuffed out or would burn brighter. These hopes had been considerably diminished on August 15, 2022 when they saw 11 perpetrators of heinous crimes against humanity being garlanded and feted as ‘sanskari brahmins’ when they left jail as free men granted remission by the Gujarat government. This was happening just when the prime minister was holding forth from the Red Fort against those who did not protect the security and honour of women.

A watershed moment in the history of cryptocurrencies came on January 10 when the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved 11 spot Bitcoin Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) applications by Bitwise, Grayscale, Hashdex, BlackRock, Valkyrie, BZX, Invesco, VanEck, WisdomTree, Fidelity and Franklin.

It is a player from a football team's forward line who emerges as a heroic figure in a crucial match dribbling and scooting past stolid defenders to score a goal himself or creating an opening for another forward to kick the ball into the net past a hapless goalkeeper. Seldom it is a member of the defence line or a mid fielder who grabs the limelight; the legend of German and world football, Franz Beckenbauer who passed away early this week was an exception.

It is a player from a football team's forward line who emerges as a heroic figure in a crucial match dribbling and scooting past stolid defenders to score a goal himself or creating an opening for another forward to kick the ball into the net past a hapless goalkeeper. Seldom it is a member of the defence line or a mid fielder who grabs the limelight; the legend of German and world football, Franz Beckenbauer who passed away early this week was an exception.

It is a player from a football team's forward line who emerges as a heroic figure in a crucial match dribbling and scooting past stolid defenders to score a goal himself or creating an opening for another forward to kick the ball into the net past a hapless goalkeeper. Seldom it is a member of the defence line or a mid fielder who grabs the limelight; the legend of German and world football, Franz Beckenbauer who passed away early this week was an exception.

The Pakistani National Assembly passed a resolution on Saturday declaring a resolution demanding a delay in the February 8 general elections as undemocratic and unconstitutional. The new resolution calls for the elections to be held on time. The resolution was passed after an independent Senate Member, Dilawar Khan, presented a resolution in the Senate on Friday demanding that the elections be held after February 8 due to the severe cold and security reasons in February. The resolution was accepted in the Senate in the presence of 14 members.