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Workforce world over would face greater hardship in 2023. IMF has already sounded alarm over the grim global situation in their latest World Economic Outlook. More than a third of the global economy is expected to slip into recession in 2023, while the three large economies – the United States, the European Union, and China – would continue to stall, IMF Economic Counsellor Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas has said. According to the IMF assessment made before the emergence of the new COVID-19 in China, the global economic growth was likely to fall to 2.7 per cent with a 25 per cent probability that it might fall below 2 per cent. The China nightmare that has threatened every part of the world would additionally cast its shadow. It would distort the labour market.

The first meeting of Development Working Group under India’s G20 presidency has taken place in Mumbai. Members, guest countries and international organizations attended the conference from December 13 to 16, 2022, held at Jio World Centre in Bandra-Kurla complex.

The Narendra Modi government has stepped up its attack on the Supreme Court. In the past few weeks, the union law minister, Kiren Rijiju, has been making a series of statements, both outside and inside parliament, criticising the collegium system of appointing judges as alien to the constitution and asserting that the ‘spirit’ of the constitution says it is the government’s right to appoint judges.

India has a long history of gross abuse of power and deprivation of human rights of its people in the garb of laws and legality. The system of criminal jurisprudence in the country, drawn from its colonial past, is designed to instill fear of authority and subservience to the rulers among the people, now the democratically elected government since the Independence, in the scheme of the Constitution of republican India. Draconian laws have been used to suppress the movements of the oppressed and marginalized masses, the peasants, workers, minorities, Dalit and tribal. Since 2014 when the present RSS Pariwar Union Government took over, students, artists, writers, democratic rights activists, audacious professional journalists and academics have become targets of dreaded anti-terror law, the UAPA. RSS Pariwar has made the infamous dreaded UAPA known to all people compared to little knowledge about their democratic rights conferred on them by the Constitution.

Jamshedpur: Delhi’s Kapil Kumar fired a brilliant nine-under 63 to lead the round one of the Rs. 3 crore TATA Steel Tour Championship at the Beldih and Golmuri Golf Courses in Jamshedpur.

Komera Anka Rao will never have a scarecrow on his one-acre farm at Karempudi village in Palnadu in Andhra Pradesh. The sole reason he grows crops on his only piece of farm land is to feed birds. Jaji, as he is locally known, grows pearl millets sorghum as they require less water and labour. The farm hosts a variety of birds, including Indian parrots, baya weavers pigeons, mynas and the Indian Pitta.

West Bengal CPI(M) is in a bind following a considerable section of its rank and file cosying up to their BJP counterparts. The reason is neither an ideological meltdown or desertion for fished or loaves but a desire for survival in the face of apparently overwhelming onslaught of Trinamool Congress activists.

At first glance, Islamic scholars discussing the religious legitimacy of the United Nations and the nation-state sounds esoteric. It's not. On the contrary, it’s potentially revolutionary.

Reports have been doing the rounds that Rahul Gandhi was planning a short break from the Bharat Jodo Yatra to mark Christmas. BJP spokespersons have been asking with sly grins what if Rahul Gandhi took a Christmas break and went to Bangkok? This, even as the ruling party was getting perturbed as the yatra ate up the miles, relentlessly leaving the BJP out of popular imagination.

China’s new COVID-19 outbreak threatens the rest of the world. Mathematical models predict one million or more deaths by early 2023, within 90 days from now. Epidemiologists estimate 60 per cent of the population of China and 10 per cent of the world are likely to be infected. This new crisis could shake the world, and India too cannot escape it, as we already experienced after Wuhan outbreak three years ago. Sudden spurt in new infections have also been noticed in Japan, South Korea, Brazil, and the US.