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The consolidation of the Hindus is at breakneck speed. The Hindutva forces at play have no competition. There is nothing to match the right wing’s polarization strategy. And the tactics employed are striking a chord with the Hindus. It’s being driven home that time is fast running out for the Hindu way of life unless he pulls up his socks.

KOLKATA: For West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, her party’s by-election win announced last Saturday in the Asansol (Lok Sabha) and Ballygunge (Assembly) seats was the best news in some time. Of late the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) had been facing some truly torrid times over repeated administrative failures in maintaining law and order. Group murders and a slew of never ending rapes rekindled a nation-wide infamy for the state.

The RSS chief, Mohan Bhagwat, has spelt out the geographical contours of the proposed Hindu rashtra along with the warning that those opposing the Akhand Bharat concept will either be pushed aside or eliminated.

There is virtually a scramble for coal from non-Russian sources following a self-imposed ban by the European Union on coal imports from Putin’s sanctions-hit country. But as far as New Delhi is concerned, the opportunity will go abegging as India is by itself struggling to tie up enough supplies.

New Delhi: Olympic medallists Ravi Dahiya and Bajrang Punia, along with Anshu Malik will spearhead 30-member strong Indian challenge at the Senior Asian Championship beginning in Mongolia on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Top professionals of the country including defending champion Udayan Mane, Yuvraj Sandhu Rashid Khan,Khalin Joshi, and former champion Honey Baisoya will be seen in action in the Rs 40 lakh prize money Delhi-NCR Open Golf Championship to be played at the Noida Golf Course from April 19th – 22nd.

Eminent journalist P Sainath deserves praise for reminding all via Twitter of the 200th anniversary of Mirat-ul-Akhbar, the Persian newspaper founded and edited by Raja Rammohun Roy, on 12 April, 1822. Rammohun, Sainath rightly noted, wrote a “brilliant editorial protesting the death of Pratap Narayan Das who died from a whipping ordered by the Judge of what is now Comilla in Bangladesh”. It was translated and carried in English papers. For that, John Hayes was tried by the Supreme Court of India. The weekly had to be shut down. He brought out Sangbad Kaumudi later.

India is making all the wrong noises on the cryptocurrency front! In the 10 days beginning April 1, transaction volume on top Indian crypto exchanges such as WazirX, CoinSwitchKuber, CoinDCX, and ZebPay, have declined by over 90 percent, normalized to last year. For context, WazirX, the largest Indian crypto exchange by volume, had reported $44 billion in trading volume in 2021. Now, their business has come down by up to 98%, which is virtually a complete washout of their trading volume.

And we thought Congress President for 19 years, Sonia Gandhi, before Rahul Gandhi took charge, was a Congress party member. And the UPA Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh was also a Congress member. Ditto Rahul Gandhi. The reality is, all three enrolled as Congress members, only in a digital membership drive which is still continuing.

March 2022 has given a clear indication of a deadly cocktail brewing in India with rising inflation, vanishing employment but falling unemployment rate, disappearing jobs from the non-agriculture sector, and the workforce losing jobs in non-agriculture sector returning to agriculture where unemployment is disguised under very low earning. In brief, the symptoms are the manifestation of a great economic distress, both for individuals and the country.