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The year 2025 begins with the murder of an independent journalist Mukesh Chandrakar in Bastar, a conflict zone for over three decades in Chhattisgarh in India, that witnessed many attacks and counterattacks between Maoist rebels and security forces. The incident retags India as one of the most dangerous nations for independent journalism in the world, where ultimate price for freedom of expression was paid by the journalist by his life.

The newly proposed farm laws that have been released now are worse than the earlier one against which the farmers sat on path breaking Dharna on the borders of the capital in 2020-2021. Irrespective of extreme weather, they had refused to compromise. These laws were brought with the support of International Monetary fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB). Both these were the wings of Finance capital, and the process adopted was corporate friendly. They asked to cut all subsidies, including the farm and food subsidies. It was also against public stock holding and they had urged to dismantle it.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is the eagle soaring with a bird’s eye view of what’s happening to Maharashtra under his watch as also what should be happening and what should not? Fadnavis is the Chief Minister everybody is talking about as if there isn't a better one in all of India. Also, Fadnavis is not done with leaving his stamp on things governance, he is building a rapport with whomever takes a fancy to his style of governing.

LUCKNOW: Can Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath wrest Milkipur assembly seat from Samajwadi Party for BJP in by-poll scheduled on February 5 to avenge humiliating defeat of saffron brigade in Ayodhya Lok Sabha seat.

Online education to the school children is a new phenomenon which was started during the COVID period. Since the Novel Corona Virus was highly contagious and would spread fast in the crowded places, the schools were closed to avoid students mixing in groups.

If the debut season of the Korean Netflix series Squid Game laid bare the ails of modern capitalism, its highly anticipated second season reflects the challenges to organizing against it.

LONDON: Donald Trump’s return to the White House is prompting a realignment towards the hard right across the Establishment. Far more than during his first term. Then many liberals assumed a Trump presidency could be weathered until US politics got back to normal.

As we enter 2025, the accelerating proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to reshape the global landscape in ways akin to the transformational impact the internet had in the late 20th century. Within the first few days of the year, AI-driven technology stocks have seen substantial surges, with shares of major tech companies increasing by up to 20 percent.

The projection by National Statistics Office (NSO) of a sharp fall in India’s real GDP growth rate to a 4-year low to only 6.4 per cent in the current financial year 2024-25 compared to the growth rate of 8.2 per cent in 2023-24 is a wakeup call to the Government. As for Net Domestic Product (NDP), it fell from 8.3 per cent to 6.4 per cent. It is like a thunderbolt for the Indian economy, though the data is still subject to change, since first advance data are typically subject to revision as coverage improves. The projection has arrested the ease of budget preparation, since it would form the base for the Union Budget 2025-26. The chief challenge for Union Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman would now be reversing the trend, to maintain the growth momentum for recovery in the deteriorating job market and to improve consumption.

The Bahujan Samaj Party wouldn't fight the Milkipur bypoll. Behan Mayawati is down with political paralysis and her nephew ‘Anand’, who is off and on her successor, isn't up to the task. So Milkipur will go to a bypoll without the BSP—voting on February 5 and result on February 8, the same as in Delhi.