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The AK Antony panel constituted by Sonia Gandhi to look into the 2014 Congress debacle blamed BJP’s Hindu communalism for the Congress defeat and concluded that Hindu votes mattered to win elections. Regardless, the Congress lost in 2019. Now, after eight and a half years, AK Antony has come out of semi-retirement and reiterated that along with Muslim votes, Hindu votes also mattered if the Congress wanted to “defeat Modi”.

Micro, Small and Medium enterprises in India struggled for revival in 2022, gained a little momentum, but could not realise its full potential, due to a range of hurdles they faced, including in accessing public finance, rising prices and high inflation increasing input costs, hike in interest rates making the investment costly, declining margins of profit, and continued crisis of demand.

Chennai: Bengaluru riders Alimon Saidalavi and Hemanth Muddappa recorded big wins in their respective superbike categories in the third round of the Indian National Motorcycle Drag Racing Championship at the Madras International Circuit, here on Thursday.

New Delhi: For Indian Junior (Men and Women) hockey teams, 2022 turned out to be a memorable year as Men squad won the Sultan of Johor Cup. while Women side, though finishing fourth, gave fancied England a close run for their money in the Bronze Medal match , in the World Cup in Potchefstroom, South Africa.

As the pre-election campaign for state assembly polls in Tripura and Meghalaya warms up, new entrant Bengal-based Trinamool Congress (TMC) faces unexpected challenges. For a state-based party still chasing a ‘national’ status, the first priority for the Mamata Banerjee-led outfit is to win a respectable number of seats in both States.

Why should it surprise anybody if Telugu Desam Party supremo Chandrababu Naidu wants his son Nara Lokesh to replace him at the head of the TDP table? CBN is doing nothing that is unusual. Besides, it is classic Congress. Nara Lokesh will also undertake a ‘padayatra’, just like Gandhi family scion Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, but only limited to Andhra Pradesh.

None can deny that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is the storeroom of the best imaginative and fertile brains. Earlier the CBI sleuths had come out with the revelation that Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav owned the Gurugram mall constructed from the illegal money received from the job seekers. Their allegation did not stand the scrutiny with Tejashvi shooting off in a series of tweets; "The Urban Cubes mall belongs to White Land Corporation Ltd and a BJP MP has an investment in it. Krishna Kumar is the present owner of this mall. Moreover, Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar inaugurated that mall. Now, CBI is answerable to it. It should clarify the owner of the mall”.

Farmers in India began 2022 with great hope but are ending it with greater despair. The year started with peace after the year-long historical farmers’ movement was called off in December 2021, but a year later December 2022 witnessed re-emergence of agitations of all hues of farmers’ union including RSS-BJP affiliated Bharatiya Kisan Sangh. The year saw the unfulfilled promise of “doubling farmers’ income by 2022” and also heard the lie of the Modi government in the Parliament of India in July that farmers income have more than doubled. Farmers are feeling cheated on promises, have started agitation again demanding remunerative prices for their produce in the midst of rising input cost, and decline in yield of both the summer Rabi crops and winter Kharif.

Communist Party of India was formed on December 26, 1925. It has been a day that makes us remember how the suffering Indian masses were united against the forces of British imperialism. The commitment to fight to end the class divided society, to end exploitation, and to create a society for people has been kept alive through all these decades. We pay homage to all those who lived and died for the cause.

A look back at the year 2022, which is ending this Saturday, shows that it has been a year in which the Indian economy struggled to come out of the deep trough it was plunged into in the years 2020 and 2021. Rising inflation, growing unemployment, industrial stagnation and ever-widening inequalities in income and wealth were the visible features.