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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his pride and magnanimous words when the country took the responsibility of G20 in the beginning of December 2022, and now UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said with great poignancy to turn “words into action” to get the world back on track for 2030 SDG goals, reiterating the call on the G20 to agree on a $500 billion annual stimulus to achieve it.

It has started. The Empire has struck back, the undeclared emergency is out in the open. Teams of Income Tax officials landed in BBC’s offices in Delhi and Mumbai on Valentine's Day to conduct what it called ‘surveys’, and not ‘raids’. The “surveys” were on at multiple locations.

New Delhi: In a bid to provide aspiring stars and teams an opportunity to perform at a world-class venue, Hockey India on Monday announced that it will host four Junior National Championships in the newly-build Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium in Rourkela, Odisha.

Kolkata: Amandeep Drall, who finished tied third in the second leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour, starts as one of the favourites for the third leg at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club commencing here from Tuesday and will battle it out with Seher Atwal, who won the first leg of the Tour this year.

Nachiketa Desai a journalist passed away on in Ahmedabad on Sunday, 5th February after a fall at his house. Why should a journalist’s death, make news when the entire profession has been dealt a dying blow by massive lay-offs, corporate takeover, dissolution of the Working Journalists’ Act and destroying the profession that was once held as the Fourth Estate?

Beset by defection and dissension, West Bengal unit of BJP seems to be like a part of retreating army trudging along wearily. Recent tour of party president JP Nadda to the state aimed to be a pep up pill before the yet to be announced panchayat polls does not seem to have lifted the drooping morale.

Pre-poll campaigning has reached its peak in Tripura, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting twice during the last three days for addressing election meetings in the state and the Home Minister Amit Shah holding road shows and meetings on February 6 and 7 and again on February 12. It was the biggest mobilization of the BJP of its leaders for helping the Party retain power for the second time beating the challenge of the Left- Congress alliance and the tribal outfit Tipra Motha.

With India facing a diabolical threat from the rightwing RSS and BJP, the immediate and most urgent task for the revolutionary communists is to save the country from this flurry of fascist disaster and destruction and to accomplish this it is imperative that all democratic forces and ideological streams should come together to form a broadest unity and cooperation.

Ever since the Union Budget 2023-24 was tabled in the Parliament of India, MGNREGA workers across the country has been protesting against substantial budget cut for the second year reducing the earlier employment guarantee making the rural workforce restive. The reduction in budget allocation would adversely affect 15.51 crore active rural workers enrolled under the scheme.

With government banks and financial institutions involved in massive funding in the lately stock-crashed Adani group enterprises, legislators from India’s main opposition parties are understandably concerned. Last week, even the Supreme court sought to know from the government and market regulator the steps needed to improve the regulatory and statutory mechanisms to “ring-fence” investors against volatility of the kind that singed Adani group shares. The apex court also wanted to know whether an expert panel led by a retired judge could be set up for a holistic review. A number of opposition MPs already kicked off protests and demanded an official investigation.