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New Delhi: Odds are even as India takes on hosts Japan in the Semi-Finals of the Women’s Junior hockey Asia Cup in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, Japan on Saturday.

The estimates of India’s Gross Domestic Product for the fourth quarter of 2023 were released on May 31. These show a growth rate of 6.1 per cent over the fourth quarter of the previous year, which is higher than the 4.4 per cent growth that the October-December quarter had recorded over the corresponding quarter of the previous year. Taking the year 2022-23 as a whole, the growth rate of GDP over the previous year comes to 7.2 per cent, higher than the 6.8 per cent expected earlier by both the IMF and the Reserve Bank of India.

GOI (Govt of India) authorities are speeding up ongoing work on major road/rail connectivity projects in the Northeast border areas, to boost regional trade, exports and economic development. Indian Railway and Highway authorities are working in tandem with the state Governments of Assam, Sikkim, Nagaland and Tripura, along with concerned authorities in Bangladesh, to achieve their goals.

The new update on prevalence of diabetes in India, already referred to as the Diabetes Capital of the World for several years now, has revealed the alarming conditions heading towards a diabetes explosion in the country. About 11.4 per cent of the population is already diabetic while 15.3 per cent are just pre-diabetic, revealed the latest ICMR-INDAB study. Lifestyle correction has obviously become urgent, and also reduction in high cost of treatment and diabetes management which was estimated at Rs1265 per patient per month in 2021, and has been rising since.

Germany has invited the U.S. and its other NATO allies to start the biggest war provocation in history in its airspace next week. The simulated air war will start there and, like nightmares of the past, spread over much of Europe. The unprecedented war games will involve 10,000 armed participants from 25 countries, with the United States alone sending 2,000 Air National Guard members and more than 100 of the 250 jet fighters and bombers that will participate.

Back of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mind, in the recesses, will be the depleted National Democratic Alliance, the shadow of it. Along with the other, the main worry – will he get another shot at being prime minister or will he be third time unlucky? The RSS is worried. A survey carried out by Maharashtra’s ‘Sakal’ newspaper group says the BJP is in choppy seas, not just in Maharashtra, but in all the states, which, according to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, make up the Union of India, a concept which is wholeheartedly endorsed by the disqualified Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi.

The Left suffered a historic defeat in national elections held in Greece last month. Syriza, in opposition since the Right came to power in 2019, was crushed at the polls, losing to New Democracy by a full twenty points.

On June 4, 2023, 408 women from 20 states assembled at New Delhi to celebrate the70thyear of foundation of National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW). They were from Kashmir to Tamil Nadu, North East to Maharashtra, coming and joining the celebrations from all walks of life, from different strata of society.

Bhubaneswar: Hosts India will open their Hero Intercontinental Football Cup campaign with a first-ever meeting against Mongolia here at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Friday as head coach Igor Stimac exuded confidence that his team will win the tournament.

New Delhi: India overwhelmed Chinese Taipei 11-0 to storm into the semi-finals of Women’s Junior Hockey Asia Cup in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, Japan on Thursday.