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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has done reasonably well in managing the Indian economy during the difficult two years of covid pandemic despite several challenges by ensuring food security to millions of people who became jobless. This has won accolades from World Bank and International Monetary Fund. But the major challenge is now when Inflation has started raising its ugly head at a time when the Indian economy is on a revival mode making it that much difficult to maintain growth momentum.

The case of the Jahangirpuri demolition drive can be rightly termed a curious case, if only because one of the petitioners, Ganesh Kumar Gupta, whose juice shop was demolished by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC), is the best friend of the BJP government at the Centre. Gupta is proof that the Modi Government was being unjustly blamed for targeting only one religious community.

May Day is here again. The central figure of the day, that is proletariat, is engaged in production and also in keeping alive the basic moving force of class divided society, which is its struggle against the capital. In the continuing thread of evolution going through phases which is called by Prof Maurice Dobb as the ‘crucial watershed between the old mode of production and the new’, the Day has its own significance. Among the twists and turns of the historical process of class struggle, the Day with its international significance, stands high replete with the memories of sacrifices and invincibility with which the working class has kept moving ahead.

Noida: Amardeep Malik, carded a brilliant five-under 67 to build a two-shot lead at 12-under 132 at the halfway stage of the Delhi-NCR Open at the Noida Golf Course on Wednesday.

Concealing COVID-19 deaths is anti-people. It saves the exchequer some money that would have been otherwise given as compensation, and the government saves itself from the burden of fixing accountability for the deaths which may necessitate the guilty to put into jails. The greatest beneficiary of this are the rulers, since it veils their failures giving room for them to boastfully air false claims of their good governance which in turn boosts their political prospects.

It has been a hop from crisis to crisis, each more disruptive and destructive than the other. The pain and sufferings endured by people to change their demonetised notes in the wake of Modi’s midnight demonetisation were unprecedented. Another midnight move, the introduction of half-baked GST regime took the steam out of the economy as the disruption forced a large number of small and medium units to cease business.

The main Opposition party in the northeastern state of Assam, the Congress, is going through a crisis. Many party leaders see no hope in the grand old party, which was once the dominant party in the state. They are now looking for greener pastures in other parties. The exit of Ripun Bora, the former state Congress president, from the Congress to join the Trinamool Congress, almost a non-existential player in the state, is just an outcome of the churning going on inside the grand old party.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The most disturbing feature of the latest political killings in Kerala – two murders within 24 hours in Palakkad district – is that the violence seems to be acquiring a communal colour.

It was a setback to the narrow-minded right-wing, and victory for the liberal left, to the opposition parties, and to the anti-Modi of whom there are legions. But when the Supreme Court’s order took its own time reaching the respondents in this age of instant information, it turned out to be the defeat of the highest court, the Supreme Court of India!

Noida: Noida’s Amardeep Malik and Gurugram’s Manu Gandas shot identical seven-under 65 to emerge joint leaders after round one of the Delhi-NCR Open at the Noida Golf Course on Tuesday.