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Gurugram: Tvesa Malik will make her first appearance on the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour this year as she gets set for the fifth leg of the 2023 season at the Golden Greens Golf Club here on Wednesday.

New Delhi: In a bid to develop sports at the grass root level, Hockey India (HI) on Tuesday announced its new Development Program designed to unearth young talent and improve the bench strength of the National Senior and Junior teams for men and women.

The just released Assembly poll results in three northeastern states - Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Tripura are seen as semi-finals before next year's parliamentary elections when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek a third consecutive term at the Centre. There are 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in the region. As they play the see-saw game; for some, like the BJP, they are encouraging, while for the Congress and the Left parties, it is a wake-up call.

On February 21, Seattle made history. After hearing hours of testimony for and against a bill by councilmember Kshama Sawant, the Seattle City Council voted 6–1 to pass her bill and formally ban caste discrimination in the city. This was the first time an American city has explicitly made caste a protected category in its civil rights laws. If a resident of Seattle feels that they have been passed over for a job or promotion, or that they have not been able to rent an apartment because of their caste, they can now petition the city’s Office of Civil Rights to investigate whether or not their rights have been violated.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming economies and promising new opportunities for productivity, growth, and resilience. Countries across the world are also responding with national AI strategies to capitalize on these transformations. However, no country today has sufficient data on, or a targeted plan for, national AI compute capacity. This polity blind-spot may jeopardise domestic economic goals.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Chief Sharad Pawar’s optimism knows no bounds, It was his optimism which made him break from the Congress and form the Nationalist Congress Party. Then, to cut a long story short, it was his optimism which made the Maha Vikas Aghadi, the same optimism which made the NCP ally with Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena and with the Congress to form the government in Maharashtra in 2019, which came to an abrupt end for reasons beyond his control.

Giving benefit of doubt to the BJP leaders for their act of conspiring the worst nature of dirty strategy against the Tamil Nadu and Bihar governments, alleging that workers from other States are being attacked in Tamil Nadu will be more than committing hara-kiri.

In a significant move, at the on-going China’s National People’s Congress, which is a gathering of legislators, the top leaders of the Communist Party of China have set a pared down growth target for China at only 5% for the current year. NPC is meeting in Beijing is weeklong.

This year the theme for the UN International Women’s Day (IWD) 2023 is ‘DigitAll: Innovation and technology for gender equality’. This theme is aligned with the priority theme for the 67th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW-67) Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. IWD 2023 will explore the digital gender gap on widening economic and social inequalities. IWD 2023, being celebrated on March 8 every year, has EmbraceEquity campaign theme and is a global day to mark the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call for accelerating women’s equality. IWD has occurred for well over a century, with the first IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a million people. Today IWD belongs to all groups collectively everywhere. IWD is not country, group or organization specific.

Ever since the Union Budget 2023-24 was tabled in the Parliament of India on February 1, 2023, MGNREGA workers across the country have stepped up their agitation to protect the employment guarantee given them under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) 2005. NREGA Sangharsh Morcha, that have fought for the workers right for years, has even launched its 100 days sit-in protest in Delhi on February 12. The agitation is gaining strength with support of the Central Trade Unions, social activists, and other associations of the working class.