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A reported impasse in the use of rupee for trade between India and Russia is seen more as posturing rather than a failure of the arrangement as both sides cannot manage without each other in the context of the prevailing global political situation.

It did not take long for the rethink on the resignation. Allowing the hysteria to last just a few hours seemed more in keeping with Sharad Pawar’s style than his dramatic announcement on Tuesday evening that he was resigning from the President-ship of the party he had founded and which is identified with him. One didn’t think the NCP chief, whose pronouncements are known for their practicality, was the kind which would encourage the melodrama that invariably follows such announcement.

New Delhi: Top foreign coaches were picked up the six Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) franchises at a Coach Draft in Mumbai on Friday for the upcoming edition of the league, scheduled from July 13 to 30.

New Delhi: Buoyed by the stunning victory against fancied Gujarat Titans, the Delhi Capitals on Friday exuded confidence of performing well against Royal Challengers Bangalore in their next match of the TATA IPL league match at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, here on Saturday.

New Delhi: Putting up yet another fiery display, Asian and Commonwealth games bronze medallist Mohammad Hussamuddin (57kg) thrashed his rival to move into the pre-quarter finals while Ashish Choudhary and Shiva Thapa crashed out of the IBA World Boxing Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Friday.

Agriculture and food are now back in the centre stage in the backdrop of the critical geopolitical developments. This has become necessary after food shortages witnessed in the face of Russian-Ukraine conflict in countries dependent on wheat imports from those two warring countries.

The data on unemployment brought out by the Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy (CMIE) present a grim picture. Not only has the unemployment rate increased sharply for some years now, starting from even before the pandemic, but the figure which had shot up during the pandemic has not come down much despite the recovery that has occurred in the level of GDP from its trough.

In any country, banking sector plays a vital role in shaping up the economy. Especially in poor, underdeveloped and developing countries, banks have a crucial role to play. Our country is no exception.

Cruel joke is being played with the women wrestlers who enhanced the prestige of India in global fraternity by winning medals in international championships. In the evening of May 3 while addressing the election rally in Karnataka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that he was a celebrant of the Nari Shakti (women’s’ power), but in the midnight on the same day the Delhi Police acting under the command of his lieutenant Amit Shah was assaulting, insulting and outraging the modesty of the women wrestlers along with a woman journalist, Sakshi, who had covered the sordid incident at Jantar Mantar in Delhi.

Saint Tyagaraja, who combined wealth of Music and heights of poetic excellence was born in Tiruvarur in present day Tamil Nadu on May 4, 1767. He had inherited music in pristine forms of earlier times like Prabhanda Gita and absorbing Bhakti Gitams spreading in the Cauvery Deltaic region.