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Bhopal: Asian Junior Champions Nikita Chand and Kirti registered comprehensive victories to enter the finals of the 6th youth women’s national boxing championship here on Saturday.

May 15 was the 25th anniversary of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) which was formed in 1998. On May 26 Prime Minister Narendra Modi reminded his party that no alliance other than NDA has remained intact for a quarter century. And he was correct.

With Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Pasmanda outreach marginalised Muslims are on test. Will they rise above identity and embrace an opportunity to enhance socio-economic circumstances which had kept them tied to the lowest rungs of Indian society? Ironically, and quite paradoxically, the Pasmanda, or the "left behind people", are being seen as the saviours of the BJP at a time when the perception is building that Prime Minister Modi's stock is falling and there's newfound confidence in the opposition parties stacked up against his decade-old "misrule".

All expectations of recovery in labour market conditions have shattered. Unemployment rate has risen to 8.4 per cent as the CMIE dashboard shows on July 1, 2023, calculated on the basis of 30 days moving average, and with it deepens the livelihood crisis. There are little jobs in the market, a large share of working population has even stopped searching for employment, while PM Narendra Modi has been trying to appear concerned about the crisis by a stratagem of organizing ‘employment fairs’ and distributing employment letters.

Goods and Services Tax (GST) has completed six years since it was launched on the midnight of June 30, 2017. It was billed as India’s second freedom. In a repetition of the then Parliament’s midnight meeting on August 14, 1947, the Parliament met dramatically in 2017 to hear the Prime Minister announce the launch of GST.

Apple has become the first company to hit a market value of $3 trillion. Although largely symbolic, the milestone is nearly as much as the GDP of India, the country that the tech giant hopes will drive its new future as it seeks to diversify its manufacturing base away from China. Apple is now placing its highest bets on India and its huge market size.

While evidence has emerged pointing to disturbing nexus between numerous politicians from the United States, United Kingdom and European Union as well as US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden and an undesignated terrorist organization in Bangladesh, there is report about embattled MP from UK’s Tory Party, Bob Stewart, of hiding his directorship of a foreign defence company controlled by a controversial Azerbaijani businessman while sitting on Parliament’s influential defence committee.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been facing critical condemnation for not visiting Manipur, the state ruled by his party, the BJP, during the last two months while the state was burning and more than 160 persons lost their lives in the ethnic violence. Not only the leaders opposed to him, even the civil society and academics have been questioning his insensitiveness and lack of concern for the state and its suffering people.

Improved bilateral road and rail connectivity has helped the growth of Indo-Bangladesh import/export trade, during the past decade. In particular Tripura Chief Minister Mr Manik Saha, while welcoming the robust trend of bilateral trade, is hopeful of increasing exports from the state.

New Delhi: Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra staged a dramatic comeback as he won the Javelin throw event with an 87.66m effort, which he achieved in his fifth and penultimate attempt while his compatriot Long Jumper Murali Sreeshankar finished fifth in his event at the Lausanne Diamond League in Switzerland on Friday night.