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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is committed to making India a global manufacturing hub and his stress on the need to work on easy transit to promote trade in central Asia and Europe at the recently concluded Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is well justified. Stepping up manufacturing has huge potential for providing employment particularly at the semi-skilled level. But widespread digitization has opened up a huge opportunity for India to become a major global hub for providing healthcare for millions of people in not only rural India but in the entire world.

A major hurdle in the shift to electric vehicles has been the price disadvantage of EV units. But this is expected to change soon, as electric vehicles are expected to hit price parity with petrol and diesel engines by next year.

Take a look at three significant events in recent weeks. These political initiative will be a crucial in the general election scheduled for 2024. Earlier, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met all opposition leaders for several hours in New Delhi. He met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and had dinner with Delhi CM. Arvind Kejriwal. Although Kejriwal has declared himself a Jihadi in fight against corruption. Nitish Kumar has also met with convicted leader, Om Prakash Chautala. He met with various Leftist factions and did not forget to meet Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, who is recovering in Medanta Hospital.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned 72 on September 17 and the country celebrated how fast an African Cheetah can run in the Indian wild? Not faster than its destiny, right? Talking of which, Modi is not ‘Destiny's Child’, he is just another man-sized Gujarati with the ability to turn into child's play anything that he set out to accomplish. Modi's list of accomplishments will fill a book though there are among us, Modi's contemporaries, who will doubt whether all of those accomplishments will fit the book.

Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Recruitment Board, set up to fill up direct recruitment vacancies for Akashvani (All India Radio) and Doordarshan (DD), with effect from July 1, 2020 under a notification by the controlling Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on February 12, 2020, is yet to take off. An inquiry reveals that the Board is currently seized of recruitment process for physically impaired persons. It is silent about filling up massive vacancies. As a result, Prasar Bharati is now a truncated public broadcaster, reduced to as a whole and sole propaganda machinery of the one-man fascist union government. Before the commencement of Prasar Bharati Recruitment Board, limited number of critical vacancies in Group B and Group C categories, in Border States, was filled up through the Staff Selection Commission (SSC).

New Delhi: Mumbai Indians on Friday named South African record-holding wicket-keeper Mark Boucher as their Head Coach.

There are fundamental objections to the plan of the government to privatise at least some of the public sector banks. They centre around the fact that such a move will change the pattern of deployment of credit, away from productive activities towards speculation, away from peasant agriculture towards big business (with dangerous implications for peasant viability, food security and employment), and away from domestic to global destinations.

Jaipur: Chandigarh's Abhijit Singh Chadha carded five-under 65 to regain lead in round three of the Jaipur Open at the Rambagh Golf Club here on Friday.

With only a fortnight to go, this edition of Durga Puja in Kolkata has a special significance. Hailed as a public art exhibition on par with Venice Biennale and Rio Carnival, Durga Puja, this year, begins on October 1 in Kolkata and all over India. During the event, class, religion, and ethnicity will unite as crowds of spectators walk around to admire the installations. Last year, UNESCO declared that Durga Puja is the best instance of the public performance of religion and art, a thriving ground for collaboration of artists and designers.

Given Bharatiya Janata Party's goal of becoming the ruling dispensation in West Bengal, the saffron camp has put its best foot forward in the state even when it is in a twilight zone. The areas of darkness are formed by successive electoral defeats and desertions while some passages in its path are lit up by some of the Trinamool Congress leaders being summoned by probe agencies on alleged corruption charges while a few find themselves behind the bars.