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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The verdict of Lok Ayukta Justice Cyriac Joseph in the case of alleged misappropriation of the Chief Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund (CMRDF) during Pinarayi Vijayan Government’s previous term from 2016 to 2021 has come as a big relief to the Chief Minister.

Global debt and recession are two major challenges afflicting many parts of the World, particularly the global south. India, which heads G 20 this year, has a great responsibility to work with member countries to find a solution to these problems. In this connection, India’s G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant is right in suggesting the group, which accounted major chunk of world trade and income, should stay “non-political” if it had to focus on development and global challenges. Kant made this remark ahead of the crucial meet of G20 countries in the backwaters of Kumarakom, a scenic place in God’s own country, Kerala. On challenges around global debt and recession, Kant was candid in saying “one issue can’t hold back other things,” apparently referring to Russia-Ukraine war.

After the United States dived in, it was the turn of Germany to wade in. Rahul Gandhi’s “disqualified MP” status is bothering both democracies. What Rahul Gandhi’s London remarks could not do, his disqualification from the Lok Sabha did, make both countries sit up and react. Also prove to Rahul Gandhi that neither America, nor the European Union, were ‘oblivious” to the “death of democracy in India”. The coin dropped and both the United States and Germany had heard it loud and clear.

While Assembly elections in Karnataka is a little over a month away from now, timeline of 2024 Lok Sabha elections is in April/May. But the election results of this southern state and several other states later this year will help BJP and Congress take stock of their chances in the crucial polls next year.

Workers in rural India had been given employment guarantee through an act of Parliament long back in 2005, however, they are being strategically denied this right strategically by the Centre. Maladministration, creating financial crunch by not allocating funds in time, reducing the allocation, discouraging workers through non-payment of wages for months to suppress the demand for work, and large-scale exclusion through Aadhar based app are rampant. Moreover, everything is morally, legally, and technically defended, rather than improving the system to protect the right to work, a guarantee given by the legislature under which government is made accountable for not providing work to rural workers.

Bengaluru: Dutchman Lars Van Meijel emerged as top contender after storming into a two-shot lead with an error-free five-under 67 ,while Kartik Sharma was best placed in tied sixth spot after the round three of US$300,000 The Challenge at the Karnataka Golf Association (KGA) course here on Thrusday.

New Delhi: With the FIH Hockey Pro League 2022/23 season nearing its midway point, India’s blistering form at the Rourkela mini-tournament -where they picked up 11 out of 12 possible points against Germany and Australia- has taken them to the top of the table with 19 points from their 8 matches.

New Delhi: The Delhi Capitals' all-rounder Axar Patel feels that his appointment as the vice-captain of the team is reflection of his growth as a cricketer.

Finally Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar broke his silence on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's disqualification from Lok Sabha on his being convicted by a Surat court in a 2019 criminal defamation case and charged the Modi government with playing an "active role" in ensuring the "hasty" disqualification of Rahul.

Ever since the Modi government came to power in 2014, it has been trying to somehow strangle the rural job guarantee scheme (MGNREGS). Driven by its commitment to the discredited neoliberal dogma that public expenditure should be cut down in order to allow the private sector to have its way and guide the economy more ‘efficiently’ and ‘productively’, the government has not only periodically cut budget allocations to various welfare schemes, including MGNREGS, but it has also taken other devious measures to squeeze the schemes.