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New Delhi: India’s racing star Jehan Daruvala, part of the Red Bull Racing Junior Team, pulled off a sensational victory in Formula 2 at the Yas Marina Circuit. Abu Dhabi, on Saturday.

The last two years – 2020 and 2021 – have driven us to a crossroads where we need to decide whither to go. Everybody by now might have witnessed how the heath and economic development are in cyclic order and closely interlinked. Our government at the centre led by the PM Narendra Modi, might have understood by now that their drumming up for health insurance has no meaning if we don’t have access to the healthcare system well equipped with infrastructure, technology, and manpower. The COVID-19 pandemic should be an eye opener, and therefore the Union Budget 2022-23 must focus on capacity building for health to make stronger healthcare system the only way left to us.

“There is no UPA now”. With these words, Mamata Banerjee seems to have set an interesting cat among pigeons. She made the statement standing besides Sharad Pawar after a high profile meeting with the opposition’s most experienced stalwarts.

“Farming is a profession of hope,” said someone and passed on, never to take up ‘hope’, and because of that he lived a long life and didn’t have to escape debt by hanging himself from the tree next to the tube-well. The farmers are leaving Delhi’s borders and many have already left, after 15 months of squatting on the highways that plough through into Delhi where sits the disruptor-in-chief and his army of ‘yes men’.

Chennai: Bengaluru schoolboy Chirag Ghorpade put in a dominating performance in the MRF F1600 class while defending champion Arjun Balu (Race Concepts) from Coimbatore survived a dramatic spin and emerged the fastest among saloon cars as the second round of the Indian National Car Racing Championship commenced at the MMRT, here on Friday.

Kolkata: On an error prone day,Ridhima Dilawari survived the last hole scare where she had a triple-bogey and managed to win 14th Leg of the Hero Women’s Golf Tour at the Tollygunge Club here on Friday.

India is going to debate a new bill on cryptocurrencies in the ongoing winter session of parliament. One of the two most important components of the bill relates to providing the legal framework for the launch of a digital coin by RBI. Many countries around the world are in different stages of launching their digital coins called Central Bank Digital Coin (CBDC).

Implementation process of the Modi government’s four labour codes has reached an advanced stage with 23 states have already notified the rules, and the centre is preparing to notify its rules soon, after which these will be implemented across the country.

President Joe Biden is a cognitive disaster, say some of his meanest detractors. Two recent polls—one by the Wall Street Journal and the other by Monmouth University—have given Biden no more chance to retain control of the House and Senate in 2022 than Prime Minister Narendra Modi had of winning West Bengal in mid-2021. And American media now say that Covid-19 transformed America into a ‘gig economy’, which is not too far from the glaring truth of India, where Narendra Modi’s ‘pakoranomics’ reduced India to an economy where people can only “pay bills.”

The pandemic alas is not yet over, but there are no economic disruptions in the current fiscal year in the form of lockdowns or workers’ absence. The economy’s performance therefore can no longer be attributed to the prevalence of the pandemic; whatever it is, it is caused by economic factors.