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New Delhi: In another big boost to the sport in the country, India will host the $2.4 million (INR 19.50 crore) prize money IBA Women’s World Boxing Championship next year.

Panchkula: Afshan Fatima returned the day’s only under par score of 2-under 70, to take a two-shot lead in the first round of the 14th Leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour here on Wednesday.

For the European Left, finally there was some good news last week as the voters in Denmark handed the Social Democratic Party a mandate to form a new government in a general election seen as a vote of confidence in Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's handling of the pandemic and her leadership to overcome yet another crisis. The victory at this time of political turbulence in the continent is all the more significant as in the neighbouring countries like Sweden and Finland, the centre- left suffered setback in the last elections at the hands of the right.

Supreme Court Justice D Y Chandrachud took over as the Chief Justice of India on November 9 following the superannuation of Chief Justice U U Lalit who was in the position for only 74 days. New CJI Chandrachud will remain in his position for two years.

Six years back on November 8, the country suffered a policy-induced shock. The economy, which was coasting along at a good clip, suddenly stalled.

Like his earlier proposal ‘One Nation, One Uniform’, the innovative prime minister Narendra Modi has come out with yet another pioneering directive to the security forces to identify and crack down on the Urban Naxal network of Maoist strategists and their supporters across the country.

The COP 27 meet in Egypt is on its fourth day on November 9. India has been in the forefront in demanding climate justice from the developed countries ever since the Paris Agreement on Climate Change 2015. Now Island nations have demanded India along with China too to pay for climate damage, which tried both the countries for the first time accountable along with the developed nations for that damage being wrought by global warming. To date, climate vulnerable countries have called on historical emitters like the United States, United Kingdom and the EU to pay climate reparations.

In today’s divided world, an independent foreign policy can be possible only when pressure from the US and EU can be countered with the “what works to my advantage” doctrine, which is why Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn’t stop himself from praising Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not falling prey to US diplomatic coercion, and instead carrying on life with Russia as if there was no Russia-Ukraine war!

The Narendra Modi Government is stooping to its lowest level of propriety to channelize funds to the ruling BJP on the eve of the state assembly elections to Himachal and Gujarat. Himachal polls are due on November 12 and elections to Gujarat assembly are scheduled for December 1 and 5. The centre amended in a hurry on Monday the rules of the electoral bonds scheme to allow its sale for extra fifteen days during the year when elections are due in states and union territories.

It is six years since Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the fateful night of 8 November, 2016 announced demonetisation, putting the nation to untold miseries and breaking the backbone of the country’s economy, but people are still groping in the dark as to why the draconian decision was taken and whether it achieved any of the objectives Modi said he was setting out to achieve. The prime minister has himself not uttered a word on it after his self-proclaimed deadline of 50 days passed off quite uneventfully.