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Post 2021 state Assembly elections In West Bengal, the main opposition party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is facing an existential crisis.

Along with the elections of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Punjab, elections would be held in the north-eastern state of Manipur. The elections would be held in two phases — February 27 and March 3. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has been aiming to return to power for the second time while the main opposition Congress is desperate to wrest its ex-citadel. The battle isn’t limited to only BJP vs Congress as there are other regional parties — National People’s Party (NPP) and Nagaland People’s Front (NPF) — in the fray making it a multi-corner contest.

New Delhi: Former champion Saina Nehiwal’s hopes of regaining the title went up in smoke as she lost to Malvika Bansod in straight games while Ashmita Chaliha and top seed PV Sindhu came up with strong performances to storm into the quarter finals of the Yonex-Sunrise India Open Badminton at the KD Jadhav Indoor Stadium here on Thursday.

On January 11, the Press Information Bureau (PIB) released an announcement by the ministry of information and broadcasting regarding the observance of the 75th anniversary of India’s independence – Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. This is a clear expression of the intention of this Modi government to use this occasion to distort and rewrite the history of the epic struggle of the Indian people for independence from British rule.

Till now, the main aim of Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) of India has been increase of exports through fiscal incentives and remission of duties. Given the unprecedented structural changes in global trade, the new FTP is likely to focus on FTA (Free Trade Agreement) as a driving force to expand exports through global supply chain trade. There are two factors which attribute to this. First, FTA is potential to expand scope for export of supply chain manufacturing across the borders under competitiveness. Secondly, thrust will be given to MSMEs to play an active role in value chain manufacturing for export. This is because they are potential to bolster supply chain manufacturing competitively, owing to low wage in India.

The Covid-19 pandemic seems to have done some good to the Indian farm sector. After a government estimate put the food grain production during 2021-22 to be 10 per cent higher than the previous year, the latest figure suggests that tractor production in 2021 has soared to a record high, crossing a million-mark for the first time.

New Delhi: The ongoing Yonex-Sunrise India Open Badminton tournament was thrown into turmoil on Thursday morning when it was confirmed that eight players have withdrawn from the competition, seven including top seed and title contender K.Srikanth, having tested positive for Covid-19 and sixth seed Sameer Verma because of a calf strain.

New Delhi: The ongoing Yonex-Sunrise India Open Badminton tournament suffered a big jolt on Thursday morning when it was confirmed that seven players including top seed and title contender K.Srikanth and women double’s player Ashwini Ponnappa have tested positive for Covid-19 and all have withdrawn from the competition.

An embarrassment to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 5, 2022 in Punjab, when he was forced to abandon his travel to the burial site of the martyr Bhagat Singh near Firozpur and return to Delhi instead, is obviously blown out of proportion for political advantage of the NaMo regime in New Delhi over the Congress regime in Punjab, inviting more trouble with the Supreme Court stepping in.

A three-day festival of hate speech in Haridwar has prompted a phase of extreme investigative diligence by the Uttarakhand police. Few are holding their breath since the transformation of investigation into obfuscation is already apparent.