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When it comes to dealing with the BJP-controlled central Government, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mamata Banerjee still behaves like an eternally malcontent oppositionist, despite her long years spent in the ruling establishment in Kolkata and Delhi.

Fly has fallen into the first morsel of BJP stalwart Sunil Bansal’s Chintan Shivir plate in Bengal. The three day shivir concluded on August 31.Sunil acknowledged as the second Chanakya, the trusted disciple of the original Chanakya Amit Shah has organised the Chintan Shivir to impart ideological and political guidanceto the senior BJP leaders. Last such Shivir was held at the small ‘Trishna Bhavan’, a community hall in Howrah. This year’s Shivir reflects the money power, the resources it has come to possess over these years in power at the centre and more than that the determination of the BJP leadership to throw out the TMC government of Mamata Banerjee.

Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi aims to make India a global supply chain, said, the senior foreign ministry officials. Tax breaks, modified PLI scheme, digitization, massive investment are the bedrocks for India emerging as the future global supply chain manufacturing hub.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no doubt about it. Excise Minister and CPI(M) Central Committee member MV Govindan, who has been selected as the new secretary of the CPI(M) in Kerala, is the best man for the job.

The rupee hit a historic low this week. The immediate provocation was, of course, a signal from the US Federal Reserve that it will persist with high interest rates so as to try and control inflation. The dollar has been steadily climbing in recent times, driven by an exodus of capital into dollar-denominated assets and at the cost of almost every other major currency in the world. Accordingly, the Indian currency fell to a new low of 80.11 against the dollar, lower than the previous all-time low of 80.06 recorded in July.

A day before his assassination on January 30, 1948 Mahatma Gandhi proposed in his ' last will and testament to dissolve the Congress Party and replace it with a Lok Sevak Sangh (people's service organization.) He said, "Congress in its present shape and form, as a propaganda vehicle and a parliamentary machine, has outlived its use."

Searches of the premises of a Bengaluru based pharma firm, the Micro Labs Ltd. by the Income Tax authorities in July 2022 and malpractices in the form of bribing medical practitioners for promotion and marketing of its products (drugs) to claim relief in taxes and consequential petition in the Supreme Court of India by the All India Federation of Medical Representatives Associations praying for ending such menace has put on the spotlight rampant malpractices out of the nexus between diverse medical practitioners and pharma industry, thus hazarding the lives of patients.

The case of demolitions, first and foremost, is a case of State and societal apathy. One central question that is missing from most discussions is why these people ‘occupying’ the ‘illegal encroachments’ to be demolished had to live as they did, to begin with? Why do people leave the comfort of their villages, the familiarity of it all, for a city and a world that only sees them as encroachers? A word that is ironically similar to roaches.

Kolkata: Champions FC Goa (FCG) played a 2-2 draw with Bengaluru FC in a Group A and bowed out of the 131st IndianOil Durand Cup football tournament at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK) here Tuesday.

When formal organized sector of the economy has been creating fewer and fewer jobs, the majority of Indian workforce is left with no option but to join informal unorganised sector where they don’t get even regular minimum wages in time and no social security coverage. Even informal workers under Union Government’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme, millions of workers are not being paid for months, despite the Supreme Court of India’s observation that it amounted to ‘forced labour’.