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Though All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2020-21 by the Union Ministry of Education does not give a clear picture of the status of higher education in India, one can easily see through behind its hedgy screen the dire consequences that are on our doorstep.

Chinese official English daily “Global Times” reiterated recently in its column that India’s policy initiative to reduce imports from China would backfire. It said “India needs integration, not protection”. In another argument, given the Apple’s Inc shifting to India, Global Times jeered, “Apple, facing softening demand, can hardly make India a manufacturing hub”.

In one stroke the empire of the world’s third richest till the other day, Gautam Adani, which he had built on the edifice of dishonesty and crony capital has been crashed. The assault has come from the US-based Hindenburg Research which charged the Adanis of being “engaged in a brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud scheme over the course of decades”.

One of the important businesses in Parliament is the annual budget presentation. This year too, on February 1, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the 2023 budget.

It was snowing hard in Srinagar, capital of Jammu and Kashmir, when the concluding ceremony of Bharat Jodo Yatra took place on the morning of30 January, 2023. Rahul Gandhi was finally donning a pheran, the traditional Kashmiri coat, as he delivered an emotionally rousing speech, delineating the aim and achievement of the Yatra. Gandhi said, it was a home-coming for him, as he understood the pain of the Kashmiris. Invoking the brutal assassinations of his grandmother and father, Gandhi said he dared himself to confront his fears, and overcome them. He had decided he would walk the final leg of the 4080-km-long Bharat Jodo Yatra in the snow-clad valleys of Kashmir, and despite security apprehensions, walk he did.

Bhubaneswar: Down 0-2 till the 28th minute, Germany chalked out yet another incredible win as they stunned defending champion 5-4 in the sudden death (3-3 in regular period) to regain the Hockey World Cup for the third time after a gap of 16 years, here tonight.

Rourkela: Hosts India ended their much hyped Hockey World Cup campaign with 5-2 win over South Africa to finish joint 9th with Argentina at the Birsa Munda Stadium here tonight.

January 27th marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, the agreement which ended the American War in Vietnam, or as it is known in the United States, the Vietnam War. From 1955 to 1973, the United States waged one of the harshest wars in modern history against the Vietnamese people, as part of its aggressive Cold War anti-communist foreign policy.

PM Narendra Modi’s assertion during his very first “Rozgar Mela” of 2023, that opportunities for employment and self-employment are continuously improving, was made in contradiction to the facts. There’s a serious distortion in the Indian job market which needs urgent redressal, instead of hollows claims that enormously understate the extraordinary sufferings of the working classes.

Flood ravaged, economically bankrupt and politically panned. Pakistan’s Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has found a scapegoat. God Almighty! Dar cut to the chase, saying that because Allah created Pakistan, Allah will have to get Pakistan out of the hole, make it prosper and help it develop.