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Ahmedabad: Despite being without several star athletes Kerala is confident about winning 10-15 medals in athletics in the National Games.

New Delhi: Host India will take on Spain in its first match of the 2023 Hockey World Cup at the Newly built Birsa Munda Stadium in Rourkela on 13 January.

At the risk of sounding florid, the economy of West Bengal can be stated to be placed between a rock and a hard place. For claims shouted from the rooftops about its job generation fall flat on their faces at the sight of the faces of the aspirants who are part of a sit-in demonstration at foot of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the heart of Kolkata asking for jobs which has been denied to them till date not owing to lack of performance at the selection test for teachers.

How can the Congress take a hit and no lightning bolts strike 10, Janpath when the loyalist stabs the cherished family in the back? Instead, the high command carries on as if nobody other than the perpetrator Ashok Gehlot could get hurt. And, by extension, the instigator Bharatiya Janata Party, which was in any case behind Gehlot’s cowardly “gadaari”. The sore truth is if anybody should take the blame for the Congress ‘aala'-command’s collapse, it is Rahul Gandhi, who owns the party but refuses to be Congress President!

The story of meteoric rise of Gautam Adani to world’s second richest person as per the leading journal Forbes, has indeed a key element of getting ‘benefit from a rising India’ since 2014, when his friend Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of the country. It is evident from even Adani’s keynote address delivered in the two-day (September 26-27) 20th Forbes Global CEO conference in Singapore.

Political parties in India have begun advance planning for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls from now on. The ruling NDA and the Opposition parties have been vying each other in their preparations. They are making and remaking strategies according to the political climate. The stage is set for the next general elections in 2024.

Gurugram: Top professional including Gaganjeet Bhullar, Jyoti Randhawa ,Manu Gandas and Shamim Khan are among the 126 golfers who will battle it out for top honours in the inaugural Rs One crore prize money Kapil Dev – Grant Thornton Invitational slated to be played from 27 – 30 September at the Gary Player Course of the DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurugram.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is not known for evolving the device of communal harmony. An insight into the working of the RSS would unravel the truth that its Maharashtrian Brahmin leadership are known for striving to give a concrete shape to their basic idea of “Hindu Rashtra”. They regularly demonise Muslims, Dalits and backwards.

Politics is the art of keeping the adversary guessing, which is what Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is good at. The harbinger of the crisis that is dogging the Congress in Rajasthan, Gehlot says something before going to bed and, then, something altogether different the next morning.

The latest data released by the National Statistical Office has been presented in a way that shows a ‘buoyancy’ in the formal job creations in India in July 2022 compared to a year before, across the three major schemes – Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF), Employees’ State Insurance, and National Pension Scheme (NPS). However, it has all the elements that mislead and does not provide a clear picture of the ground realities of the volatile job market in the country. Formalization of jobs is too slow to outpace the fast increasing informal jobs sans social security coverage.