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Qatar's 2022 World Cup promises to benefit not only itself but also to provide an unintended economic, political, and religious soft power boon for its foremost rival in the region, the United Arab Emirates.

On August 26, a day before taking oath as 49th Chief Justice of India, Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, speaking at the farewell hosted for his predecessor, announced, his goal for his 74-day stint at the top office—from setting up at least Constitutional bench that would sit throughout the year to ensuring smothering methods for listing cases and allowing lawyers to effectively mention their for listing.

LUCKNOW: With the appointment of jat leader Bhupendra Choudhry, Panchayati Raj minister in Yogi Adityanath Ministry as BJP president of Uttar Pradesh, BJP has attempted to counter SP-RLD in Western UP. It was only after several months devoted by BJP and RSS and meetings, the top leadership finalised the name of Bhupendra Choudhry as state president to succeed Swatantra Dev Singh who was inducted in Yogi Ministry.

When it comes to dealing with the BJP-controlled central Government, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mamata Banerjee still behaves like an eternally malcontent oppositionist, despite her long years spent in the ruling establishment in Kolkata and Delhi.

Fly has fallen into the first morsel of BJP stalwart Sunil Bansal’s Chintan Shivir plate in Bengal. The three day shivir concluded on August 31.Sunil acknowledged as the second Chanakya, the trusted disciple of the original Chanakya Amit Shah has organised the Chintan Shivir to impart ideological and political guidanceto the senior BJP leaders. Last such Shivir was held at the small ‘Trishna Bhavan’, a community hall in Howrah. This year’s Shivir reflects the money power, the resources it has come to possess over these years in power at the centre and more than that the determination of the BJP leadership to throw out the TMC government of Mamata Banerjee.

Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi aims to make India a global supply chain, said, the senior foreign ministry officials. Tax breaks, modified PLI scheme, digitization, massive investment are the bedrocks for India emerging as the future global supply chain manufacturing hub.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no doubt about it. Excise Minister and CPI(M) Central Committee member MV Govindan, who has been selected as the new secretary of the CPI(M) in Kerala, is the best man for the job.

The rupee hit a historic low this week. The immediate provocation was, of course, a signal from the US Federal Reserve that it will persist with high interest rates so as to try and control inflation. The dollar has been steadily climbing in recent times, driven by an exodus of capital into dollar-denominated assets and at the cost of almost every other major currency in the world. Accordingly, the Indian currency fell to a new low of 80.11 against the dollar, lower than the previous all-time low of 80.06 recorded in July.

Prime Minister candidate of the British Conservative Party Rishi Sunak has been consistently outperforming Truss in debates yet he continues to lag behind his challenger among the voters of the Party. Senior Tory leaders say that he is not having good time. Sunak who made a robust start finds himself trailing behind Truss. Since he appears to be losing the race, his supporters have started the process to identify the reasons so that he may succeed in overcoming his deficiencies.

A day before his assassination on January 30, 1948 Mahatma Gandhi proposed in his ' last will and testament to dissolve the Congress Party and replace it with a Lok Sevak Sangh (people's service organization.) He said, "Congress in its present shape and form, as a propaganda vehicle and a parliamentary machine, has outlived its use."