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Due to declining scope of job opportunity in the organised and formal sector, women workers in India have been increasingly trying hard even to find a place in the unorganised and informal sectors sans social security. Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2023-24 for the period of July 2023 – June 2024 shows that their participation in the non-agriculture informal sector has been rising and stood at 61.2 per cent as against 58.4 per cent in 2021-22 on the usual status basis.

The Congress has left the Uttar Pradesh bypolls, leaving the field open for the Samajwadi Party Supremo Akhilesh Yadav against the state-BJP led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who has sole responsibility of redeeming BJP after Akhilesh Yadav took the saffron party to the cleaners in the Lok Sabha elections with his 'Pichada Dalit Alpsankyak (PDA)' axis of resistance. The Samajwadi Party head has sworn to repeat his 2024 success in the 2027 assembly elections with the bypolls, set to take place on November 13, a stepping stone for the assembly polls.

With announcement of NDA and INDIA bloc’s candidates for byelections of all the 9 Vidhan Sabha Constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, one can now see the chief contestants arrayed in the electoral battlefield, and also make an assessment of their respective strengths and weaknesses, the success or failure of which may decide the fate of Yogi Adityanath – as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, and also as the future prime ministerial candidate of the BJP.

BHOPAL: BJP which claims to be a party with a difference is facing unexpected and unprecedented opposition over the selection of a candidate for the Budhni Assembly seat. The Budhni is facing a bypoll to be held on November 13.The Budhni bypoll was necessitated after Shivraj Singh Chouhan vacated following his victory from Vidisha Lok Sabha seat in the recent Lok Sabha polls.

Jawaharlal Nehru University plans to teach the “Concept of Akhand Bharat”. It does not end here. The process has been unleashed. More distortions would be brought through Vidya Bharati, an institution through which the RSS runs a massive network of schools across the country. And here comes the question. How many deletions are to be inflicted on the history syllabus for schools, colleges and universities?

The one-hour meeting between the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Chinese President Xi Jinping on October 23 on the side lines of the BRICS summit at Kazan, has signalled a breakthrough in the bilateral relations between the two largest nations of Asia and the world. What was of significance of the latest meeting was the cordial optics and the mood of the two leaders who gave definite indications of going ahead with the task of restoring normal relations based on cooperation and competition.

The Indian government announced on October 21 that an agreement was reached between India and China on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). This is a welcome development that hopefully would lead to the normalisation of relations between the two neighbouring countries.

An introspection of foreign direct investment flow in India reveals that FDI fell on the lowest ebb in 2023-24 within 5 years. This is despite the fact that country achieved one of the highest growth in the economy. It dropped to US$ 44,423 million in 2023-24, from US $ 59,636 million in 2020-21. This is in contrast to spur in GDP growth, viz, 9.4 per cent in 2021-22, 6.7 percent in 2022-23 and 7.2 percent in 2023-24.

If winning the assembly elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand is crucial for the political survival of Narendra Modi, the electoral victory in these two states has wider connotation for the RSS, as it would reinvent the philosophical importance of its politics of Hindutva and reaching to its destination of turning India into a Hindu Rashtra.

With less than three weeks to go before November 13 when six Assembly segments will witness by-elections in West Bengal, the principal Opposition outfit BJP does not seem to have got its act together yet though they are contesting in all six constituencies. It applies equally to Left Front and the Congress as these Opposition outfits with no member in the assembly, condemned the incident of rape and murder of the woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in one voice thereby bringing themselves to the public eye as big supporters of the 71 day old doctors movement in the state.