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India is leading a global recovery in gold jewellery. This is despite the fact that gold prices have hit a five-month high. The demand engine is driven by urban consumers, encouraged by a return to pre-covid levels of economic activity. Rural consumers were more cautious as their inflation outpaced that of their urban counterparts.

Delhi Municipal Corporation poll results have further brightened the stature of rising political star - Arvind Kejriwal, which has unnerved not only the BJP, but also shadows its national prospects and may lead to some churning before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

The second phase of farmers and workers agitation in India has already begun since November 26 with farmers’ march to Governors across the states of the country. The joint front of 10 Central Trade Unions (CTUs) boycotted even pre-budget consultations of the Union Ministry of Finance on November 29. A nationwide protest in the coal industry is called for December 2. Farmers’ unions are scheduled to meet on December 8 to decide the future course of their agitation.

Recent reports that Indian Space Research Institute (ISRO) is collaborating with Indian Council for Historical Research (ICHR) to study India’s contribution to science and to establish that India has been ‘Vishwa Guru’ (World leader) in the advancement of science have to be viewed with caution. As reported in Hindustan Times, the ICHR and ISRO will shortly sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to take up the project titled "History of Indian Science and Technology". The project will cost Rs.1.5 crore. The information about India’s rich history of science and technology will be collected from the ancient religious scriptures. RSS outfit Vijnana Bharati, which promotes "swadeshi science, had conceived the idea of “Akash Tatva,” conference with the aim to introduce the youth to the ‘wisdom of ancient science along with modern scientific advancements’.

After having found itself sans a single legislator in the West Bengal Assembly, the Congress seeks to draw Left to its side during a march from Ganga Sagar to Kurseong hills. Though the Left is in the same boat as the Congress as the representation of the former is also nil in the Assembly, the Left leadership is yet to give its nod.

The ongoing slugfest between the BJP and opposition parties over the serial raids on opposition leaders may or may not have merits of witch-hunt. But one uncomfortable fact which is coming up before public eyes is that the Indian political system has been thrived on cash economy. Much of it, is to be blamed to the opaque political funding system in India since independence. In the veil of this opacity the personal wealth creation takes place. The fault line lies on the very fact that political parties repose responsibilities to their leaders to raise fund in a decentralized model by earmarking territory like a state or a region or even a district. This creates a fiefdom of power of the Fund-Raising-Responsible leaders and along the way some unscrupulous leaders also generate amass wealth. This system of political funding has been practiced and performed over the decades. This is the ultimate mother of all corruptions in India.

Has Congress President Rahul Gandhi's low-profile poll gamble worked? Rahul skipped the campaign in Himachal Pradesh and canvassed barely in Gujarat while concentrating on his Bharat Jodo yatra. Was it part of a strategy, or was it an ill-advised move? Could Rahul's strategy be to save the party's ammunition for more significant battles? What is intriguing is how could a defeat in one or both states help him when victory is at a striking distance.

New Delhi: Former Pakistan Hockey Olympian Tahir Zaman feels that India has the potential to win the Hockey World cup.

New Delhi: Ace Shuttler HS Prannoy, India’s lone entry into the year ending BWF World Tour Finals in Bangkok, is placed in tough Group A along with with Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen, of Denmark, Japan’s Kodai Naraoka and China’s Lu Guang Zu.

Preeti Banerjee (nee Sarkar) who first sang Sare Jahanse Achchha Hindostan Hamara, the lyric of Mohammad Iqbal (written in 1904), scored anew into a song by Pandit Ravi Shankar in 1945 at the Andheri commune of Indian Peoples Theatre Association in Bombay would have been 100-plus, had she been alive today.