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BERLIN: “It’s going to be a choice many of us will have to face when winter comes: freeze or starve.” So says Günter Pohl, a glassworker from the the town of Sprockhövel in Germany’s industrial Ruhr region. “The sanctions are supposedly targeting Russia, but they’re hitting us a lot more than they are Russia.”

Searches of the premises of a Bengaluru based pharma firm, the Micro Labs Ltd. by the Income Tax authorities in July 2022 and malpractices in the form of bribing medical practitioners for promotion and marketing of its products (drugs) to claim relief in taxes and consequential petition in the Supreme Court of India by the All India Federation of Medical Representatives Associations praying for ending such menace has put on the spotlight rampant malpractices out of the nexus between diverse medical practitioners and pharma industry, thus hazarding the lives of patients.

No-one dares to say with any certainty what will be the result of the plebiscite on September 4 to approve or reject the new constitution of Chile.

A potential revival of the Iran nuclear accord is likely to test the sustainability of Middle Eastern efforts to dial down tensions and manage differences by improving diplomatic relations and fostering economic cooperation.

The case of demolitions, first and foremost, is a case of State and societal apathy. One central question that is missing from most discussions is why these people ‘occupying’ the ‘illegal encroachments’ to be demolished had to live as they did, to begin with? Why do people leave the comfort of their villages, the familiarity of it all, for a city and a world that only sees them as encroachers? A word that is ironically similar to roaches.

Kolkata: Champions FC Goa (FCG) played a 2-2 draw with Bengaluru FC in a Group A and bowed out of the 131st IndianOil Durand Cup football tournament at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK) here Tuesday.

When formal organized sector of the economy has been creating fewer and fewer jobs, the majority of Indian workforce is left with no option but to join informal unorganised sector where they don’t get even regular minimum wages in time and no social security coverage. Even informal workers under Union Government’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme, millions of workers are not being paid for months, despite the Supreme Court of India’s observation that it amounted to ‘forced labour’.

While there are plenty of important primary elections happening now, and even bigger general elections happening in the fall, Senator Bernie Sanders’s rallies in Philadelphia and Boston earlier this month were focused on something entirely different: the struggles of the working class and the importance of building the labor movement.

Next month September will bring about a major turnaround in Indian polity with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar determined to launch the colossal task of bringing together the opposition parties on one common platform amidst the scenario of perverse failure of Modi-Shah design to keep him confined to Bihar.

It is good to know that Russia and India are in an advanced stage of discussion on accepting each other’s debit and credit cards. Should the two countries agree, Indian ATMs (automated teller machines) will soon accept Russian MIR cards. And, Indian RuPay cards will be accepted in Russia. Further, the two countries are considering the mutual implementation of interbank transfer services — India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and SPFS, the Russian version of SWIFT. India’s acceptance of MIR cards will provide a big boost to the five-year-old Russian electronic fund transfer system at a time when the country is facing wide-ranging financial sanctions from western countries and Japan.