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New Delhi: There was huge sense of relief in Delhi Capitals camp after the team registered its first victory in the ongoing IPL defeating Kolkata Knight Riders by four wickets at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi here last night.

The acquittal of all living 67 accused in a Special Court in Ahmedabad has clearly showed that the riot victims of Naroda Gam massacre have been served injustice in place of justice. As the case stands now, prosecution has miserably failed in producing evidence against the accused persons, while judiciary failed in delivering justice to the victims, and both signify a miscarriage of the entire Criminal Justice System, since a victim has a right to have justice.

RSS which claims to be the nation’s conscience keeper and beholder of the highest order of morality utterly lacks moral conviction to explain the reasons for its strident opposition to the caste census which basically aims at ascertaining the correct socio-economic position and to reflect on population size of the OBCs, EBCs, Dalits and adivasis in modern India.

Nepal's Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda" is set to embark on a three-day visit to India starting on April 28, 2023, in what is seen as a significant step in strengthening bilateral ties between the two neighbouring countries.

The World’s second largest economy, China is currently holding more than half of the global wheat stocks leaving much behind the combined stocks of the US and the European Union’s 27 member states. If excluded China, the global stocks can take care less than two months consumption. This is revealed in the World Bank’s food security report.

In India, landownership is crucial for the upliftment of the rural poor. Even after seven decades of independence from British colonialism, the rich landed sections occupy vast tracts of land while the small and landless, who form 80 percent of the farmer community possess only a negligible portion. The landless situation is a major obstacle in the process of poverty eradication, and in increasing agrarian production and productivity, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Successive governments have conveniently ignored the implementation and even subverted the agenda of land reforms. Neoliberal economic reforms facilitated the conversion of land and food into marketable commodities, depriving millions of poor farmers, and landless rural poor in South Asia.

Government officials never tire of repeating that India is currently the fastest growing major economy in the world. What they never mention is the fact that India had witnessed perhaps the sharpest absolute drop in GDP among the major economies of the world in 2020-21 because of its draconian lockdown; and the current growth-rate is exaggerated by the low base caused by that drop from which it is being counted.

With its validation on April 14 by the Constitutional Council, Emmanuel Macron’s government has finally passed its legislation to raise the pension age to sixty-four. Its controversial passage into law has prompted vast opposition: refinery workers have held petrol shipments hostage, dockers have blocked deliveries, and a sustained strike by garbage collectors left uncollected bags piling up on the streets of Paris for weeks. So what are the government’s next steps?

Recently, OPEC and some non-OPEC countries, including Russia, announced oil output cut of around 1.16 million barrels per day. This move will bring the total volume of oil cut by OPEC + to 3.66 million bpd, according to Reuter’s estimation. Eventually, the output reduction could lift oil prices by US $ 10 per barrel, according to Pickering Energy Partners. The voluntary cut will start from May and continue till the end of the year.

In 1938, there were public bonfires of forbidden books in Italy. Militia was always present in such events to help keeping alive the flames and restrain any interruption. In fact, Mussolini had contended that “fascism requires military journalism”. In fascist Italy, the role of Mussolini as the prime censor was visible quite openly. Usually whenever there was the order to impose total blackout on a topic, or to pull out a story from the press, it was immediately organized and it happened almost every day.