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New Delhi: Former Australia captain Rickey Ponting feels that his country has some advantage over India in the World Test Championship final to be played at The Oval from June 7-11.

New Delhi: Indian Junior Hockey Team captain Uttam Singh on Friday exuded confidence that his team will qualify for the Junior World Cup by giving good performance in the Jr Asia Cup scheduled in Oman from 23 May to 1 June.

Screenwriters have always been the sharpest thorn in the side of movie executives, the motion picture labour union with the greatest propensity to strike. The current walkout is their eighth, not including a threatened strike in 1941 that secured their first collective bargaining agreement with the studios.

Threat to the existence of mankind has never been so acute as today. We are faced with twin existential crisis due to climate change and nuclear war. Extreme changes in the weather are a cause of grave concern. Untimely rains, storms and hitherto lesser known events like Tsunami, El-Nino etc., have become common occurrence. It is well known by now that human activities are the cause of these speedy changes in the ecology.

For the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) whether at the centre or in the states, hard times are here.

Congress’s political narrative has won in Karnataka throwing the BJP out of power in the state. It clearly shows that the political narrative brought forward by the party and its leader Rahul Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra and election campaigns in the state have become more popular than the narrative brought forward by the PM Narendra Modi and the BJP. However, to repeat Karnataka elsewhere in five states that are going to polls later this year and the Lok Sabha election 2024, Congress will need a multi-pronged strategy to take care of other factors coming in their way to success.

Under pressure from globalised finance capital, most countries of the world have enacted legislation fixing the size of the fiscal deficit as a proportion of GDP; generally it is 3 percent, and in India it is 3 per cent for the centre and 3 per cent for the states. The US however has no such legislation; instead what it has is a ceiling on the absolute stock of public debt that can be held at any point of time. This is a very odd procedure, for as the economy grows, this ceiling has to be revised, and, not surprisingly, since 1960 the debt ceiling has been raised, revised or extended 78 times.

The 29th National Conference of All India Bank Employees Association which was held in Mumbai from May13th to 15th, 2023 concluded successfully. More than 3,000 Delegates and Observers from all over the country participated in the Conference. Notably, Delegates from all the States including from Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Jammu and Kashmir took part in the Conference. Large number of young employees and women employees participated in the Conference.

The abrupt removal of Kiren Rijiju from the post of Union Minister of Law is yet another example of Prime Narendra Modi surrendering. In fact Modi’s two tenures are littered with abject surrenders. Almost to suggest that this is a flaw in his character. No reason has been given for Rijiju’s eviction. The Modi government has nothing in the form of an explanation, not even an insignificant exclamation mark!

A famous Urdu poet (shayar) recently wrote, “What can a statute book do when the sections of the law books are sleeping in the pages!” It was not merely a satire on the existing judicial system. He was commenting on the state of affairs: how not only the executive system, but even the judiciary has ceased to work.