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At conclusion of the 17th three-day Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention (January 8-10) at Indore on Tuesday, majority of 3,500 participants from 70 countries have been dispersing with enthusiasm and hope that Indian diaspora has a greater role to play not only to India’s journey ahead during the Amrit Kaal (2022-2047), but also in their host countries in the present context of economic development.

It is to utter to dismay that only about 23.8 % families of the doctors who lost their life fighting COVID-19 have received the insurance amount announced by the Prime Minister under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP). This is as per the information received by Dr Babu K V, an Ophthalmologist from Kannur, Kerala on 26th September 2022 from The New India Assurance Company Ltd. in reply to an RTI filed by him. As per this reply total number of beneficiaries under PMGKP, who died of COVID during 30th March 2020 to 30th September 2022 is 1988 and amount for them comes to be Rs.994 crore. Only 428 beneficiaries have got the benefit so far which amounts to 214 crore rupees.

Rourkela: "Playing for India at a home World Cup is a dream come true for me," says young forward Abhishek who is part of the national squad which will represent the country at the FIH Odisha Hockey World Cup starting here from 13 January.

Saudi Arabia isn't wasting time to milk for what it’s worth soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo’s move to the kingdom. Neither are others in the Gulf eager to join the bandwagon.

Historians Ranabir Chakraborty and Aditya Mukherjee slammed the New Educational Policy of the present government at the Centre at the 81st session of the Indian History Congress, held at the Madras Christian College, Chennai, between 27 and 29 December 2022. They blasted the on-going saffronisation of history text books that are incompatible with the canons of historiography. The burial of India's rich tradition secular historiography is to rewrite Indian history with a saffron bias.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Was the decision to reinstate Saji Cherian, MLA, as a minister in the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in the state hasty? That is the question doing the rounds in Kerala’s political corridors.

Pakistan - Islamabad camaraderie, built up after the capture of Afghanistan by the Taliban and formation of a new Emirate in Kabul on 15 August 2021, faces a sanguinary breach. A conflictual discontent was simmering ever since the federal government had struck a ceasefire with the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan during the regime of Pakistan Tehreek-i- Insaf in January 2022 with the then Prime minister Imran Khan Niazi at the helm. It had burst out in August last year when four TTP top commanders were killed.

The preliminary official estimates by Ministry of Statistics has corroborated multilateral and other rating agencies forecast that India’s economic growth would be around 7 per cent in financial year 2022-2023. This only confirms that Indian economy is on a revival mode. The projected GDP growth may be less than 8.7 per cent achieved last financial year. The year 2021-2022 was the first year after Covid Pandemic and the growth looked impressive because of base effect as in the previous 2020-2021, India clocked a negative growth due to lockdown and other disruptions.

Has Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ achieved what it set out to? What was it that Rahul Gandhi wanted to unify? His party went to pieces here, there and everywhere, wherever it had lost elections, and in states where the Congress was robbed of its hard-fought victories by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s central investigative agencies? Then, there were individual Congress leaders, like J&K heavyweight Ghulam Nabi Azad, who took off with a bunch of the like minded, which also left the grand old party broken if not decimated.

It is rather depressing to note that the unemployment rate in the country reached 8.30 percent in December, the highest over the last 16 months. In urban areas, the unemployment rate exceeded 10 percent. The number of people looking for jobs last month increased to 40.48 percent, the largest in 2022, reported the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy. The demand for jobs far exceeds its supply. The unemployment situation is alarming especially during the current peak season (October-March) of the Indian economy.