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Decades ago, the first DMK chief minister C.N. Annadurai compared the post of a governor to a redundant goat's beard. It was after Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru dismissed the E M S Namboodiripad government on the recommendations of the then Kerala Governor on July 31, 1959.

Indian workers are suffering much from work-life balance mismatch and the South Asian workers are the longest working compared to any other region of the world. It has been revealed in the first ever report on “Working Time and Work-life Balance Around the World” released by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

As is the practice, there is a demand galore before the 2023-24 budget for tax sops, whether justified or not. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has a difficult task cut out for her as she may have to address some of the genuine demands this time as it will be the last full-fledged budget of BJP led Narendra Modi government before the Lok Sabha polls in April-May 2024.

In Meghalaya, where State Assembly elections are due next month, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a constituent in the outgoing ruling coalition led by the National Peoples’ Party (NPP), is facing tough times. State BJP leaders find themselves beyond their depth as they struggle to counter strongly negative vibes among large segments of voters, mostly generated by the functioning of their assertive BJP colleagues in neighbouring Assam.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s kilometre-long roadshow in the heart of the national capital with PM Modi hanging out of the black SUV’s front-door! If anybody missed Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, fret not. He was at the BJP national executive discussing the health of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s election-preparedness along with the election-winning negative campaigns against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Bhubaneswar: A superb goal by Blake Govers in the dying minutes of the game helped three-time champions Australia to salvage a point against Argentina in the pool A encounter which ended in a 3-3 draw at the Kalinga stadium here tonight.

Rourkela: Riding on skipper Thiery Brinkman’s brace, three-time champions Netherlands outplayed New Zealand 4-0 for their second successive win and virtually assured themselves a direct quarter final berth from pool C of the Hockey World Cup at the Birsa Munda Stadium, here on Monday.

If real estate is anything to go by, Dubai is snubbing its nose at Saudi efforts to replace it as the Middle East's go-to business and expatriate hub.

On December 7, Peru’s Congress was scheduled to vote on the impeachment of President Pedro Castillo. It wasn’t the first time. It was the third attempt at impeachment, one of so many mechanisms employed by Congress, elites, and the press to delegitimize Castillo and remove him from power. That same day, Castillo shocked the country with his response: a message to the nation in which he declared the dissolution of Congress.

An incident of an activist of a political party being roughed up cannot be an occasion of joy and jubilation for it. Yet a barely concealed cheer prevailed in the West Bengal state BJP after one of its leaders was allegedly beaten up by Trinamool Congress activists during a Didir Doot (Didi's messenger) programme when the former approached state minister, Rathin Ghosh with complaints about lack of civic amenities at Duttapukur in North-24-Parganas.