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The Global Hunger Index (GHI) for 2022 has just come out, which shows India occupying the 107th position among the 121 countries for which the index is prepared (countries where hunger is not a noteworthy problem are left out of the index). India’s score on the hunger index is 29.1 which is worse than the score of 28.2 it had in 2014. (The lower the figure the less is hunger). One is so bombarded these days by official talk about India being among the fastest growing economies of the world, India within sight of becoming a $5 trillion economy, and India being an emerging economic power, that news such as the GHI brings one down to earth. Ironically, the only country in South Asia that is below India on the hunger index, and that too only marginally, is war-ravaged Afghanistan (rank 109); the rank of crisis-hit Sri Lanka is 64, of Nepal 81, of Bangladesh 84 and of Pakistan 99.

The release of Bilkis Bano rape case convicts by the Gujarat government is turning even more dubious amidst new disclosures that the remission was allowed despite opposition from the CBI as well as the city civil and sessions court of Greater Bombay and the prisons and correctional administration assistant DGP of Ahmedabad.

LUCKNOW: The visit of leaders from different political parties to Sefai village in Itawah in Uttar Pradesh to meet Akhilesh Yadav to condole the death of his father and founder of Samajwadi Party Mulayam Singh Yadav had significance for future alliances by SP to face 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

Suddenly everybody is an advisor to newly elected Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, advising him on how to go about running the 137-year-old party, which, if it had life of its own, will know the constant that nothing changes in the Congress till the Gandhi family wants it changed. Kharge knows this and the vanquished Shashi Tharoor knows this, too.

Gurugram: Veteran Linda Wessberg (Sweden) carded 7-under 65 that included an ace, to lead the star-studded Hero Women’s Indian Open after the first round at the DLF Golf club here on Thrusday. The hole-in-one, which fetched her Rs. 200,000 also gave her the slender lead.

New Delhi: Playing some brilliant golf the ‘A-Team’ upstaged Defending Champions ‘BMW Deutsche-Motoren’ to set up a title clash with ‘Baale Golf’ in the ‘Lloyd Delhi Golf Club League’ here.

New Delhi: Maaya Revathi ousted fourth seed Aishwarya Jadav 6-3, 6-2 to enter the semi-finals of the (under-16) Girls section of the Fenesta Open tennis championship here on Thursday.

On October 16, 2019, when the Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi read out the unanimous verdict on Ayodhya case, something that aroused as much curiosity as the judgment by five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court was its authorship. In a departure from convention, the judgment did not carry author’s name. But as the experts found, some vital clues emerged: the language and structure of the 929-page document, broken down into chapters, bore the mark of D V Chandrachud. Almost all its judgments, they pointed out, be it Aadhar, right to privacy or Sabrimala, followed that pattern.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan has, once again, kicked up a controversy by warning the ministers in the Pinarayi Vijayan Cabinet of expulsion if they make critical comments about him.

In Bangladesh, a new third force has emerged on the political scene, even as the ruling Awami League (AL) and the chief Opposition outfit Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) bitterly debate pre-election administrative arrangements. Seven parties and groups have recently launched a new formation called the Ganatantra Mancha (GM), meaning ‘Democracy Forum.’