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New Delhi: Indian Women's hockey team put up a gallant fight before going down to Australia 2-4 in their opening match of the tour on Thursday in Adelaide.

There is a chink opening up in the claim that India has been ushered in the group of five most developed nations in the world. With consistent fall in the GDP, even an indication towards upward move gets clapping, a myth that is carried forward since last almost a decade. It is a myth since it does not have roots in the reality. Since 2011-12, the statistical agencies in the country have been silenced by the government that came to power in 2014. The World Bank had earlier clarified drawing a line to define extreme poverty according to data collected in a survey, and stated that it is 1.5 dollar per day, per person. In India, shockingly, 23 percent of population live with even less than it. It has been the only available data since 2011-12.

Self help is the best help. Irked by the West Bengal unit seeking its help on issues big and small, national BJP leaders have asked the state unit to follow this time tested adage, sources in state unit said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has always been shifting the goalposts before, during, and after elections. He has been aggressively inventing, creating and using his narratives to his own political benefit while keeping Hindutva as a constant factor to benefit from the entire RSS family’s activities in the country. His strategy has been overwhelmingly successful until we found it failed, in Karnataka Vidhan Sabha election, the result of which showed his narratives lost their shine, majority of people rejected them as unreliable, while the pitfalls of the constant Hindutva factor widened to allow BJP fall into losing their political dominance in the state to the Congress which is forming the government.

On January 25, India issued notice to Pakistan, demanding changes to the Indus Waters Treaty which was signed by India, Pakistan, and the World Bank in 1960. The treaty determines the allocation of rights to the waters of several rivers in the Indus Basin between the two countries.

The “nagging Congress infighting in Karnataka” is glaringly out in the open. And the headlines are making the Congress look like a bunch of children at a candy store. The party is ridden with the suicidal impulses. One view is that the Congress high command should put its foot down, name its Karnataka Chief Minister nominee and start governing the state.

New Delhi: Hosts India will take on Pakistan in their opening match of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship (SAFF) on 21 June in Bengaluru.

Sheetla Singh who founded the Hindi language daily Jan Morcha based in Faizabad in 1958 and nurtured it for the last 65 years turning it into a real people’s paper passed away on Tuesday. He was 91 and active in his editorial responsibilities till the end. His demise is being mourned by the journalists throughout the country belonging to all languages as he was also known as a journalists union leader who did a lot for improving the wages and the rights of the media persons.

Less than 12 months are left for general elections 2024 and those of us asking what’s gonna propel voters to the election booths are being too smart by half. We all know one camp’s strategy has come a cropper, while the other camp has won the derby by a couple of horse’s length to spare. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s strategy to get the Pasmanda Muslims to vote for the BJP in lieu of ‘labarthi’ galore was effectively blunted by the Congress party’s make or break counter Muslim-strategy in Karnataka.

As if the ruthless drubbing which RSS and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s politics of Hindutva met at the hands of the Hindus in Karnataka assembly elections, Modi and RSS are moving to implement the Hindutva campaign in Bihar for getting better results in the coming Lok Sabha polls through a Guru.