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February 2022 data on unemployment is even more frustrating amidst the Modi government’s claim that the employment opportunities are on the rise in India. Unemployment rate actually rose to 8.1 per cent from 6.57 per cent in January showing worsening the condition by 1.53 per cent just in a month. Rural unemployment rose more sharply by 2.51 per cent in a month to 8.35 per cent in February as against 5.84 per cent in January, while urban unemployment situation improved a little by 0.61 per cent and ended at 7.55 per cent, still higher than 7.27 per cent a year ago in March 2021. The CMIE data shows that the unemployment rate for February 2022 was worst in the last six months when it was 6.86 per cent in September 2021.

New Delhi: 10000m Race Walk silver medallist in the World Athletics U20 Championships Amit Khatri, lines up against familiar and unfamiliar opponents at the start of the U20 men’s 10km event on Friday in the World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships in Muscat, (Oman) here.

New Delhi: Putting up a power packed performances Anand Yadav and Ravi Saini storm into quarter finals Asian Youth & Junior Boxing Championships in Amman, Jordan on Thursday.

Aamby Valley, Maharashtra: Pranavi Urs carded 72 and that was enough for her to take the second round lead as overnight leader Hitaashee slipped to second place in the 4th leg of Hero WPGT here on Thursday.

New Delhi: India will like to convert home conditions and favourable draw when they take on Denmark in their Davis Cup World Group Playoff 1 tie at the Delhi Gymkhana Club (DGC) starting Friday.

Whenever a person becomes happy, one resorts to loud music, not only for hearing oneself, but for all living in the surroundings, so that people should also come to know about the happiness. Happiness cannot be quantified, but majority among us try to accomplish the impossible task, as if they believe – louder the sound and explosion, greater the happiness. It is a commonplace scene in India, and in several parts of the world that has put over one billion youngsters aged 12 to 35 under risk of developing deafness.

In this age of Social Media, there are dime-a- dozen political analysts. From age 20 to age 60 and beyond. Many of these pundits base their political predictions on caste arithmetic. There is also the analyst who argues using the communal factor. Stacked against these two is a third kind, the one who banks his predictions on the so-called “labarthi-factor.”

The killing of an Indian Student Naveen Shekharappa in a Russian shelling in Kharkiv in Ukraine recently is a wake-up call to the country’s rampant and unending caste-based and communal-based politics that is ruining the educational system. It is time for the nation as a whole to have a relook at the reservation, which is more of an appeasement of backward communities rather than being genuinely trying for their uplift.

The tensions between Russia and the US-NATO in the past few weeks and the Russian military attack on Ukraine have sparked a big increase in international oil prices. The oil prices have surged and they stood over 100 dollars a barrel and gas prices have escalated by 62 per cent. This is going to have a direct impact on fuel prices and thereby inflation in India.

The massive victory achieved by Trinamool Congress in the latest elections to 108 civic bodies in Bengal covering all the districts is a continuation of the trend which was evident at the assembly elections in 2021.In all the subsequent elections held in the state, first Kolkata Municipal Corporation, then polling in four leading corporations of the state and finally in the remaining urban bodies on February 27.- all the results show a continuing consolidation of the TMC among the electorate marginalising the rival parties the BJP, the Left Front and the Congress.TMC got 102 civic bodies out of the total of 108 while the Left Front got one, the independent Hamro Party got one Darjeeling and in four civic bodies, no party got majority with the presence of independents.