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The welcome development in Indian economy is that Inflation, riding on base effect, has moved below five per cent mark in April this year. But worrying factor is slowdown in Industrial and consumer goods production as IIP growth decelerated to 1.1 per cent in March this year. As a result rating agency Crisil expects India’s GDP growth to slow down to six per cent in the current year 2023-24 as against 7 per cent in just ended financial year 2022-23.

Union Home Minister Mr Amit Shah’s belated announcement assuring that no official decision would be made regarding a proposed alteration in the status of Meitei tribespeople in Manipur state without a comprehensive discussion among all concerned groups and stakeholders is most welcome.

Time was when hearts beat faster whenever Imran Khan charged in to bowl or looked the way the red ball moving at him as he raised his bat to send it to the ropes or outside the stadium. One does not recall too many occasions when the outstanding all rounder was stumped.

New Delhi: It turned out to be Bronze Friday for Indian pugilists as Country's hope of a gold in Men's World Boxing Champions went up in smoke as Nishant Dev (71Kg) Deepak Bhoria (51kg) and Mohammad Hussamudin (57kg) settled for bronze medals in this global tournament in Tashkent on Friday.

New Delhi: Virtually out of contention with only eight points in their kitty from 11 matches, Delhi Capitals think tank still feels that their team has shown lot of character after suffering first five successive defeats in this seasons IPL.

In the light of the unanimous judgement of a constitutional bench of the Supreme court of India delivered on May 11, 2023on powers of Elected government of Delhi, Narendra Modi government must now desist from – usurping the legislative and executive powers of the states and using governors as its pawns.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who heads the Biju Janata Dal, can make a salutary contribution to the combined opposition’s goal of ousting Prime Minister Narendra Modi only if his party makes a clean sweep of Odisha’s Lok Sabha seats in 2024. That being said, Naveen Patnaik is smarter than Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who he met a couple of days ago, and can definitely hold his own against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who he met after his rendezvous with Bihar’s wannabe Prime Minister.

Mrinal Sen, the ace film maker who depicted both the political turmoil of Calcutta in 1960’s and 1970’s along with the selfishness and cowardice of the Bengali middle class through his 28 feature films, steps into his 100th year of birth on May 14 this year. The owner of the Dada Saheb Falke award and Padma Bhushan, apart from countless international awards died in Kolkata on December 30, 2018 at the ripe old age of 95.

None of the sides who sought the Supreme Court verdict relating to the political upheaval in Maharashtra in June last year were pushed off the ledge by the apex court judgement. The Eknath Shinde government continues albeit with a question mark; Uddhav Thackeray has been provided with a rallying point from which it can resume its fight another day.

Several scientists, educators raised serious concern last week about NCERT removing theory of evolution from science syllabus in class X curriculum of CBSE. The letter said, “Understanding the process of evolution is crucial in building scientific temper”. And depriving students of this exposure is depriving them of rational knowledge. Sadly, the list of deleted science topics include, Charles Darwin, molecular Phylogeny, Evolution and tracing evolutionary relationships.