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If a Karnataka lingayat seer is to be believed, Rahul Gandhi will be prime minister in 2024. With that taken for granted, the Congress can set its eye on winning the 2023 Karnataka assembly elections. The lingayat seer is invested in Rahul Gandhi. He also happens to be from the lingayat mutt which gave “deeksha” to the Gandhi scion and admitted him into the Lingayat sect!

In the face of persistent inflationary pressures and tie in prices, the Reserve Bank of India has jacked up on Friday its basic policy rate —the repo rate— by 40 basis points to 5.4%. With this hike, the RBI policy rate now reaches what it was before the pandemic started.

Despite a clear edge in the recent popularity curve in Pakistan former Prime Minister Imran Khan and chief of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf is in political dock again. The Election Commission of Pakistan has caught him on the wrong foot by indicting King Khan and his party of having received overseas fund illegally. The PTI was a "willing recipient" of $2,121,500, the order, concurred by all the three members, stated.

As the tension between the United States and China mounts as a fallout of Nancy Pelosi’s provocative Taiwan visit, the technology war between them is also taking a new turn. Both houses of Congress have approved the CHIPS and Science Act—a $280 billion plan to boost chip manufacturing in the United States. Currently, 75% of chip manufacturing is in East Asia, centred around Taiwan, South Korea and China. The United States aims to re-shore the semiconductor industry back to itself. It hopes to revive the fortunes of its chip manufacturers, like the once-upon-a-time king of chip-making Intel, currently fighting not to become another has-been like IBM.

New Delhi: Boxers assured India six medals, in hockey drag flicker Harmanpreet Singh scored a hat-trick to help his team down Wales 4-1 and book a place in the semifinal while shuttlers PV Sindhu, K Srikanth and Akarshi Kashyap moved into the next round on the 7th day of the Commonwealth Games at Birmingham on Thrusday.

Mamallapuram: India A and I, will lock horns in a crucial seventh-round match in the open section at the 44th Chess Olympiad in Mamallapuram, on Friday.

New Delhi: Riding on drag flicker Harmanpreet Singh's hat trick, India downed Wales 4-1 to move into the semi finals of the Men's hockey tournament at the Brimingham Commonwealth Games on Thursday.

As we approach August 6, we remember 8.15 am on that day in 1945 when the US exploded first ever nuclear weapon on human population at Hiroshima in Japan. This was followed by another attack on Nagasaki on 9th August. Over two lakh people died on these two days in these two cities. Number of people injured, rendered destitute, homeless and orphaned far exceeds this number. Effect of radiations on the generations after that is still felt. That was the time of unprecedented humanitarian crises and agony never heard of before.

The prime-time anchor couldn’t hold back his happiness. He wanted to know from the anti-corruption crusader exactly where the “case” stood. The anti-corruption crusader was happy to oblige. Both had tried and found Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi guilty. The anchor spelled out the verdict and the anti-corruption crusader said there was no need for a money-trail to nail the culprits.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world, common people have been bearing the brunt of the once-in-a-generation cost-of-living crisis since the beginning of 2020. Hundreds of millions lost even access to food, energy, and finance, millions of them just perished, and millions somehow survived on assistance in cash or kinds from various government and private sources. Just when the global economy was recovering from the abyss of misfortune, Russian aggression on Ukraine in February 2022 started reversing the recovery, making the crisis increasingly worse. Out of this human crisis, profiteers across the world unrestrictedly multiplying their profits, that the United Nations has finally called “immoral”, a term euphemistically used perhaps for “a devil of an act”.