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Will the Bharatiya Janata Party ever get more than a foothold in states south other than in Karnataka? The number of times the BJP has undertaken serious forays down south has been equalled only by the number of times the Congress has launched Rahul Gandhi in politics, of which the ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra is the latest attempt, the most successful one so far.

There were 1.3 crore more entrepreneurs in India in 2022 compared to 2018, but there were 1.4 crore people less in employment – 45 lakh fewer men and 96 lakh fewer women - in October 2022 compared to January 2020. Younger unemployed persons are the worst hit by such a Job market distortion.

The government has been shifting the goal posts of demonetization from black money elimination to greater tax realization and finally digitization to suit its arguments from time to time for justifying the mindless decision, whose parentage is being disowned by every party involved.

The Mexican people have just celebrated with big enthusiasm four years in power of the leftwing president Luis Obrador better known as AMLO. His strong leadership, pro-people programmes and policies to protect the interests of the common American masses have been widely appreciated. He is considered as the most admired president in the region.

Recently the Taliban ordered an indefinite ban on university education for women, the ministry of higher education said in a letter issued to all government and private universities. Before this drastic decision last year, the Ministry of Women’s Affairs was dissolved and the sinister Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice re-established. This clearly illustrates that the Taliban will carry on with its medieval conservative interpretation of Islam and that they are nothing more than an extremist group that has grabbed power. Additionally, the Taliban is still nurturing global jihadi elements despite the outrightly lie that they propagate regarding lack of any global ambitions.

Mumbai: Ethiopia’s Derara Hurisa will defend his Tata Mumbai Marathon title here on January 15, in a competitive Elite field, with a dozen runners holding personal bests under the 2:08:09 course record he set in 2020.

The central government released draft regulations for the online gaming and gambling sector on January 2. Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the government has begun consultations to frame detailed guidelines and regulations for India’s nascent gaming sector, which has registered impressive growth both in app downloads and revenues. The draft guideline proposes a Self Regulatory Organization (SRO) to certify and recommend what kind of online gaming intermediaries should be permitted to operate in India. Online gaming intermediaries are online platforms that offer players online games produced by gaming software developers. These games often have betting and wagering options, which the online gaming intermediaries use to make an income for themselves.

One-upmanship in Middle Eastern sports just wretched up a notch as superstar Cristiano Ronaldo joins state-owned Saudi football club Al Nassr FC for reportedly a whopping US$241 million over 2.5 years.

There for all to see was the determination of an independent grass-roots union, the Amazon Labour Union, to confront one of the nation’s three richest men, Jeff Bezos, and his monster goliath, Amazon, over wages and working conditions. They bested Bezos and won the union recognition election at the JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island by a healthy margin.

With the RSS hastening up the process of fattening its Hindu rank by inducting the tribals, the alarm bell for complete dissipation of their identity has started ringing for the adivasis and they are ready to assert their independent distinctiveness by confronting the RSS pracharaks.