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When M M Keeravani won the Golden Globe award for the best original song for S Rajamouli’s film RRR on January 11, he was fulfilling his destiny. As a 4-year—old in Kovvur, Andhra Pradesh, he had walked up to his father; Koduri Siva Shakti Dutta, and narrated a dream: “A divine being asked to open my mouth and stretch my tongue out. I did, and it placed a burning coal on my tongue.” Then, abruptly, the young Keeravani declared “I want to learn music.”

At the start of each year, the World Economic Forum (WEF) — organizer of the annual Davos conference currently underway in Switzerland — releases its list of the “global risks” expected to dominate over the following twelve months. This year, researchers at the WEF decided that these risks are so great, and so interwoven, that we are now entering an era of “polycrisis.”

LUCKNOW: The tremendous response to Bharat Jodo Yatra of Rahul Gandhi in Western UP in particular and rest of country in general has boosted the morale of Congress leaders and workers in Uttar Pradesh. The participation of minorities, Dalits, farmers and other sections of the society in Bharat Jodo Yatra in Western UP has demonstrated upswing in the popular support for Congress.

On August 31, 2022, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, a.k.a ‘KCR’, travelled to Patna and met Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar calling for a ‘BJP-mukt Bharat’. Kumar and KCR weren’t comfortable with each other at a presser, as KCR called for the unity of all the opposition parties.

Finance minister’s ‘confession’ that she understands the pressures of the middle class as she herself belongs to that class of people and that she would continue to work for their welfare leaves hints to the direction in the Modi government’s last full-fledged budget before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Union Budget 2023-24 needs to address the rising inequality in India that has acquired an alarming trend at a time when economic growth of the country is projected to decelerate during the next fiscal.

China’s population has shrunk in 2022 for the first time in six decades. That has sent bells ringing about the prospects China should be facing henceforth.

As a part of the tradition of the global CEO’s body World Economic Forum (WEF), the annual five day jamboree at Davos has started and the Global Risk Report 2023 has been released mentioning both the existing risks as also the new dangers threatening the global economy. As a journalist who attended Davos meet two decades ago as a journalist, I can vouch with confidence that nothing much has changed in the approach of the MNC CEOs and the top thought leaders of the western world in the last 25 years, the only difference is the participants talk more of inequality these days since Oxfam simultaneously releases its global inequality report.

Bhubaneswar: Defending champion Belgium and former champion Germany battled it out for a 2-2 draw while Korea piped Japan 2-1 to stay afloat in the competition from Pool B of the Hockey World Cup at the Kalinga Stadium on Tuesday evening.

Before the Lok Sabha elections in April/ May 2024, the RSS and Narendra Modi government have launched the most ruthless operation to saffronise the judiciary, turn it subservient to the Modi government and rob its independent identity and authority.