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As India is heading closer to the Lok Sabha election 2024, two sets of issues are being brought forward before the people of the country. BJP and AIMIM are harping on Hindu and Muslim communalism respectively, the former seems pushing the corruption issue against the INDIA alliance leaders in the rear. INDIA alliance, on the other, is trying to bring rising inequality in the country in focus as a top issue which is the cumulative effect of many things, including crony capitalism, unemployment, social injustice, and price rise.

Having built Trinamool Congress from the scratch and weeding out those who might question her style of functioning, West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is long accustomed to having her ways. But a dilemma confronts her whether to be tagged with imploding INDIA coalition's unity or to green flag caste census in West Bengal which her colleagues in the coalition seeks which she considers to be damaging to her party's poll prospects in 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

In an event of huge political significance for Greece as also Europe, an outsider Stephanos Kasselakis, with no previous experience in the politics of Greece was elected as the President of the Syriza, the main leftwing opposition party in the Greece which ruled the country from 2015 to 2019 as the leader of a leftwing coalition.

Notwithstanding political rift, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor lauded New Delhi declaration of G-20 a diplomatic triumph for India. It pushed India to the leadership for Global South, leveraging its political clout in the world. Eventually, induction of 55 members of AU (African Union) as permanent members of G-20 vindicated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion for a new era of G-20. It unleashed a striking success in geopolitics and catapulted India as a major counterweight to China.

Had Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, father of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, been alive today, he would have probably been a little embarrassed, if not distressed, to see his beloved country has become a home of small migrant Sikh terrorist groups hopelessly engineering to separate the Indian state of Punjab, almost 11,500 kms away, to make it an independent state of Khalistan. Pierre Trudeau himself spearheaded the role in decisively defeating the Quebec separatist movement of the 1970s and 1980s. A charismatic and controversial figure, Pierre Trudeau was arguably Canada’s best-known politician, both at home and abroad.

New Delhi: Two-time world champion Nikhat Zareen thrashed Vietnam's Nguyen Thi Tam in her opening round of the 50kg by unanimous decision at the Asian Games boxing tournament in Hangzhou, China on Sunday.

New Delhi: Indian women’s football team muffed chances and went down 0-1 to Thailand for their second successive defeat and crashed out of the Asian Games at the Wenzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium in Hangzhou, China on Sunday.

New Delhi: Marco Bezzecchi wheeled to glory as he won the inaugural IndianOil Grand Prix of India riding Mooney VR46 Racing Team to the top of the podium at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida on Sunday.

New Delhi: Led by pacer Pooja Vastrakar’s four-wicket haul, India defeated Bangladesh by eight wickets to move into the final of the Asian Games women’s cricket tournament in Hangzhou, China on Sunday.

New Delhi: The lightweight double sculls team of Olympians Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh and the men’s eight team won silver medals in their respective Asian Games rowng events in Hangzhou, China on Sunday.