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Human rights collective, People’s Union for Civil Liberties, UP, has been meticulously documenting and putting together reports on the unprecedented theatre of violence against minorities, Dalits and women that is the state of Uttar Pradesh. As India’s most populous and perilous state, led since 2017 by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath of the BJP, heads to fresh assembly polls, in what seems to be an ugly and vicious electoral campaign by the ruling party and its leaders, the concerned citizens of India have penned a charter of demands seeking justice and accountability from the government. PUCL’s letter on the human rights abuses in UP, under the aegis of Yogi and the array of rightwing leaders fomenting communal tensions in the state, is a hard-hitting wake-up call for everyone anxious about the plight of the marginalized, especially religious minorities, women and Dalits.

Nirmala Sitharaman in her fourth budget presented on Tuesday February1 has straightaway kicked off an agitated debate with her proposal for taxing profits on trading of digital assets.

Nirmala Sitharaman's 2022-23 budget has a number of digital initiatives. But the main highlight is the introduction of Digital Rupee based on blockchain, a technology that drives the cryptocurrencies. The digital rupee will be a digital depiction of an Indian rupee supported by the Reserve Bank of India and will be equivalent in value to the physical rupee.

The Union Budget 2022-23 provisions and allocations for health, education, and labour are too little to initiate ease of life in the next fiscal. Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman has claimed that the budget has laid foundation for economic growth for the next 25 years which is according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi is Amrit Kal, but people needed immediate help to protect their lives, education of their children, and secured livelihoods for themselves, provisions for which is surprisingly absent from the budget provisions. Whatever there is only cosmetic.

Every leader takes advantage of a crucial moment to settle down. The current Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections will be a decisive moment for the political future of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Once considered a trump card, she now faces a massive challenge in the present elections. The party has not been in power in U.P. since 1989, and the organization is almost extinct. So it will be a Himalayan task for the 49-year-old Priyanka Gandhi, who formally entered the rough and tumble of politics in January 2019.

The massive outlay for capital expenditure in the union budget is the boldest and most timely step taken by the government to ensure a speedy economic recovery. It will address the issue of unemployment and loss of individual income which plagued the economy through the two pandemic-hit years. The government must ensure that the proposed projects and the on-going programmes maintain their time and cost schedules. Never before did the country experience such large investment programmes in highly job-oriented projects around a whole lot of fields. The outlay has been jacked up by 35.4 per cent from Rs. 5.54 lakh crore in this fiscal to Rs.7.50 lakh crore in 2022-23. Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and the entire government machinery deserve kudos for putting the efforts together to make it happen.

Chennai: Multiple National champion Rajini (RACR Castrol Power Ultimate Racing), needs only four points from the double-header to seal the title in the premier Pro-Stock 301-400cc category at Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship to be will be held at the MMRT over three days from Thursday.

New Delhi: Ace hockey goalkeeper PR Sreejesh has won the World Games Athlete of the Year 2021 Award.

New Delhi: India commenced their debut campaign in the FIH Women’s Hockey Pro League with a emphatic 7 – 1 win over China in the Sultan Qaboos Complex in Muscat, Oman.

Pune: Yuki Bhambri gave Indian campaign a big boost as he chalked out registered a dramatic come-from-behind win over Jozef Kovalik (Slovakia ) in the opening round of the Tata Open Maharashtra at the Balewadi Stadium here on Monday.