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Chinese official English daily “Global Times” reiterated recently in its column that India’s policy initiative to reduce imports from China would backfire. It said “India needs integration, not protection”. In another argument, given the Apple’s Inc shifting to India, Global Times jeered, “Apple, facing softening demand, can hardly make India a manufacturing hub”.

In one stroke the empire of the world’s third richest till the other day, Gautam Adani, which he had built on the edifice of dishonesty and crony capital has been crashed. The assault has come from the US-based Hindenburg Research which charged the Adanis of being “engaged in a brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme over the course of decades”.

One of the important businesses in Parliament is the annual budget presentation. This year too, on February 1, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the 2023 budget.

It was snowing hard in Srinagar, capital of Jammu and Kashmir, when the concluding ceremony of Bharat Jodo Yatra took place on the morning of30 January, 2023. Rahul Gandhi was finally donning a pheran, the traditional Kashmiri coat, as he delivered an emotionally rousing speech, delineating the aim and achievement of the Yatra. Gandhi said, it was a home-coming for him, as he understood the pain of the Kashmiris. Invoking the brutal assassinations of his grandmother and father, Gandhi said he dared himself to confront his fears, and overcome them. He had decided he would walk the final leg of the 4080-km-long Bharat Jodo Yatra in the snow-clad valleys of Kashmir, and despite security apprehensions, walk he did.

Bhubaneswar: Down 0-2 till the 28th minute, Germany chalked out yet another incredible win as they stunned defending champion 5-4 in the sudden death (3-3 in regular period) to regain the Hockey World Cup for the third time after a gap of 16 years, here tonight.

Rourkela: Hosts India ended their much hyped Hockey World Cup campaign with 5-2 win over South Africa to finish joint 9th with Argentina at the Birsa Munda Stadium here tonight.

PM Narendra Modi’s assertion during his very first “Rozgar Mela” of 2023, that opportunities for employment and self-employment are continuously improving, was made in contradiction to the facts. There’s a serious distortion in the Indian job market which needs urgent redressal, instead of hollows claims that enormously understate the extraordinary sufferings of the working classes.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no mistaking it. Kerala has erased its image of being an investment-hostile State despite the campaign of misinformation being peddled day in and day out by the Opposition parties.

The delirious, deranged joy of taking a dig at Nobel laureate Professor Amartya Sen is so addictive for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government that his protégé, the Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati University, Professor Bidyut Chakraborty, has gone to the extreme of slandering Sen, insinuating that he’s not a real recipient of the most prestigious Nobel Prize.

No stock-taking of India is complete without an assessment of social, economic and political condition of the Adivasis, India’s ancient citizens. No section of the Indian community has been more affected by independence and democracy than the Adivasi. Democracy is neither new to them, nor a gift of independence. From the time immemorial, their way of life and their institutions have been democratic. Through the ages, they have been living a life of simplicity, which might well be envy of modern civilization. And yet, the impact of independence, striking with undiscriminating ruthlessness, has been too good for our prescriptive citizens.