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There are three sectors of the economy – the Public, the Private, and the Co-operative. PM Narendra Modi led BJP government’s preference for private corporate sector is already well known through the policy it has adopted including big ticket privatization of the public sector, and the introduction of the Multi-State Co-operative Societies (Amendment) Bill 2022, MSCS Bill in short, in the Parliament of India against the autonomy of the co-operative sector.

Tashkent: Indian pugilists dominated the ring as Narender Berwal registered a stellar victory to storm into the quarter-finals while Govind Sahani and Deepak Kumar entered the pre-quarters of the IBA Men’s World Boxing Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Thursday.

New Delhi: Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS)’s Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) has approved leading athletes Avinash Sable and Tejaswin Shankar’s proposals to train and compete abroad.

The Karnataka assembly election has a special importance in the present conjuncture. For the BJP, in its quest for overall political dominance, retaining this southern state is vital for its ambition to spread its influence in other southern states.

Day in and day out, the RSS-led parivar excels themselves in the fascist skills of propaganda. Learning lessons from Mussolini and Hitler, updating those lessons for the changing time and place, they sometimes outsmart even their masters. In 1937, inaugurating a movie production unit, Benito Mussolini gave the motto: “Cinema is the most powerful weapon.” Following his steps, Adolf Hitler and his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels have also attempted to persuade film makers to manufacture cinema of their taste and tune. From the initial days of RSS-BJP rule, India has been witnessing concerted moves to utilize the possibilities of art and literature to achieve their political goals.

Karl Marx was born in Germany on May 5, 1818 and died in London on March 14, 1883. Three days after his demise on March 17, Friedrich Engels in his speech at the grave of his best friend and partner in their bid to change the world, said: ‘On March 14, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think.’

India in its capacity of rotating head of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) invited Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to the Goa SCO on May 4-5, but India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar hadn't decided on a bilateral with Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. So much for India’s legendary ‘athithi devo bhava’ and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much bandied ‘Vasudeva Kutumbakam’.

Hounding the leaders of opposition, allegedly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Centre through Enforcement Directorate (ED), has reached an unprecedented level under directorship of Sanjay K Mishra, and hence his extension of service has been naturally opposed by the forces against abuse of power. However, extension of ED Chief Sanjay Kumar Mishra’s service remains a puzzle, and even the Supreme Court of India has to ask if he is ‘indispensable’?

All his life, Sharad Govindrao Pawar has been his own man. Be it walking out of Congress when defying Gandhi family was considered to be political suicide or coming out in support of top notch industrialist Gautam Adani recently thereby running the risk of fracturing anti-BJP alliance, the Maratha strongman has been known for his out of the box decisions.

Has it been some other time, the elections to the civic bodies in Uttar Pradesh might not have aroused so much of interest in the outcome of the electoral battle. But the two phase election being held on May 4 and 11 this time has virtually acquired the dynamics of referendum on the governance of Yogi Adityanath and also the precursor for the 2024 Lok Sabha election.