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First, it was the humiliating defeat of the BJP in the high-profile West Bengal election early last year. In his desperation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had even resorted to a vulgar campaign against the Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, but to no avail. Then came his unqualified surrender to the farmers sitting on the Uttar Pradesh-Haryana-Delhi border. Faced with their unstinting year-long agitation, he summarily withdrew the controversial farm laws.

The frightening reality of joblessness in India persists and millions of people have just stopped even searching for jobs. Modi government is playing with the data that showed a decline in the unemployment rate, and Union Minister of Labour and Unemployment Bhupender Yadav claimed employment opportunities were on the rise. It’s unfortunate that a mathematical fallacy that veils the frightening joblessness on the ground should be used by the Modi government without taking pains to understand it only to conceal its dismal performance while ignoring all suggestions for workforce centred economic recovery from the pandemic.

As usual Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose to field a cabinet minister to field questions posed to him on his government and his governance style. In the latest such instance, it was former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who forced Modi to cringe. The famously “quiet” Singh descended on Prime Minister Modi’s boasts and barbs against Nehru and Indira Gandhi like a tonne of bricks, targeting the Prime Minister for “blaming the first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru for its failed policies.”

Visakhapatnam: Jahanvi Bakshi, played a superb back nine with four birdies and no bogeys to keep a two-shot lead after two rounds in the second leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the East Point Golf Club here on Thursday.

New Delhi: Veteran tennis players Vijay Amritraj feels that India has advantage playing on grass against Demark in the Davis Cup tie slated to b e played at Delhi Gymkhana Club (DGC) here in the first week of March.

New Delhi: Sudeva Delhi head coach Mehrajuddin Wadoo has exuded confidence of making his mark on a young team in the Hero I-League in his first season in the top job.

New Delhi: India has been placed in tough pool B along with England, New Zealand and China for the Women's Hockey World Cup to be played in Spain and Netherlands from July 1.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray are set for a luncheon meeting on Sunday, February 20. They will break bread and very likely talk of “Oust Modi” and “2024.” KCR says he doesn’t want to be Prime Minister but his ‘no’ strengthens the impression that he harbours ambition. It’s also no secret that Uddhav Thackeray has “national ambitions.”

The polling for the Manipur assembly poll is due in two phases on February 28 and March 5. The Congress has arrived at an understanding with the four Left parties for electoral alliance on the basis of a common minimum programme. The campaign has been intensified and the Left workers are working hard for BJP’s defeat. On the other hand, the BJP has mobilized huge resources to retain its power in this 60 member assembly.

Some chief ministers of the opposition-ruled states have been discussing about the need for a united stand to defend federalism and to counter the onslaught of the Modi government on centre-state relations.