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While a data protection law is yet to be enacted to give effect to the unanimous rulings by a nine judges Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India making citizens’ privacy, a fundamental right, the RSS Pariwar Union Government has turned the country into a full fledged surveillance state.

Five states of the country going to polls by the end of this year has started making worried in the backdrop of Karnataka debacle of the BJP led by PM Narendra Modi, since the outcome of assembly elections in these crucial states would have bearing on the Lok Sabha 2024 elections.

New Delhi: Defending champion Abhishek Pal and Sanjivani Jadhav will headline the Indian challenge in the 15th TCS World 10K Bengaluru on 21 May, which will see record 27,000 participants. Headlining the Indian elite challenge will be defending champion Abhishek Pal who is hoping to clinch the title for the second successive time.

New Delhi The International Cricket Committee (ICC) on Monday announced changes to its Playing Conditions which will come into effect on 1 June with the Lord’s Test between England and Ireland.

The resounding victory of the Congress Party in the Karnataka assembly elections less than a year before the holding of the Lok Sabha polls in April/May 2024 has given a big boost to the Party and its leaders the Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi. For the Grand Old Party, this win was absolutely needed for establishing its credentials as the party which on its own can defeat the BJP in one of the big states. Since the 2019 parliamentary elections, the Congress lost all assembly elections excepting Himachal which is a small state. That way, the big victory in Karnataka can be considered much more than a morale booster for the Party.

It is unfortunate that manufacturing is losing focus in India while all eyes are on so-called rapid growth of the services sector. Advertising and marketing campaigns have been peaking to impress consumers as well as investors while the manufacturing sector continues to struggle silently for growth. Barring in the areas of defence manufacturing and electronics, there are not many reports of new greenfield units coming up to expand the country’s manufacturing base. India’s so-called $1.2-trillion plan to snatch factories from China looks like a daydream. Investors — domestic and foreign — are not showing enough enthusiasm about deploying large sums in manufacturing despite its big growth potential in the world’s most populous country. In India, manufacturing accounts for 78 percent of total industrial output. Logically, the country’s economic growth should be linked with its manufacturing growth. But, it is not happening to the extent it must.

New Delhi: Ace drag flicker Harmanpreet Singh will lead the 24-member hockey team in the next leg of the FIH Pro League in Europe starting 26th May. Prolific midfielder Hardik Singh has been named vice captain.

‘What a wonderful world’ must have been the feeling in the Aam Aadmi Party after it won the Jalandhar bye-election by a devastating margin, which has been the Aam Aadmi Party’s signature calling card election after election. ‘Landslide’ is AAP’s default position. Twice (thrice?) in a row in Delhi, then in Punjab, and now in the Jalandhar bye-election!

Losing the Karnataka assembly election literally has been a visceral shock for Narendra Modi. He did not ever imagine that his politics of Hindutva would loose its appeal and fail to enamour the common Kannadigas.

Concerns loomed large on India’s neutral stand on Russian invasion of Ukraine for its separation from the US led global market and eventually backlash on its growth. In contrast, the situation took a reverse gear. India, not only sustained the growth, but is expecting the hegemony in the global growth in 2023. According to IMF’s World Economic Outlook, global growth was forecasted to slow down to 3.2 percent in 2022, from 6 percent in 2021 and slip further to 1.3 percent in 2023. In contrast, India is expected to achieve 7 percent growth in GDP in 2023, which could be the highest in the world, surpassing China.