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The day after much of the dust settled on the Supreme Court’s split verdict on the hijab, things are falling into place for a better understanding of the verdict. One, it has become clear that after failing with the essential religious practice (erp) as the raison d’etre for the ‘hijab’ in classrooms demand, advocates for the hijab petitioners had picked on “hijab is a matter of choice” to deliver them the goods. And this has become the biggest defence of the hijab after the split verdict, something Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia highlighted in his divergent verdict which trashed and squashed the Karnataka high court verdict.

It’s good to discover, in reading the tributes to Angela Lansbury — who died on October 11 at age ninety-six — that the beloved actor reportedly considered herself “a proud socialist.”

The world is reeling from multiple shocks and the global economic outlook looks increasingly difficult. Therefore, the IMF is in quest for a more resilient world, as is reflected in the IMF’s policy paper, called the Managing Director’s Global Policy Agenda 2022. It has come with an assertion that the time to confront together our shared challenges is now. Act now and act together it has urged.

What is called OPEC+ that is the13 members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) together with 11 other petroleum exporting countries led by Russia, decided on October 5 to cut their oil production by 2 million barrels per day, starting from November. The US had been pressing OPEC not to take this decision. There had been hectic lobbying by the US to prevent this outcome, and several visits by top US officials to Saudi Arabia, including even by President Joe Biden, to press home the point. And yet OPEC decided otherwise; not surprisingly, this decision has been called in the western media “a slap on Biden’s face”.

Trade numbers for the fiscal 2022-2023 are looking dismal. The expectation is that for the Q1 and Q2 Fiscal 2022-2023, the Current Account Deficit (CAD) is expected to be the highest in 9 years. A quick search on items using the harmonized system (HS) at a 2-digit level reveals that there are 6 such items (among the top ten tradable items), which are of intra-industry types and contribute more than 70% of India’s trade deficit. Controlling CAD would call for understanding the nature of the deficit and policy response to counter this growing deficit.

New Delhi: A header in the first-half of extra-time by Setungchim, helped Pilgrim Higher Secondary School (PHSS), Dimapur, Nagaland, beat Government Model Higher Secondary School (GMHSS), Chandigarh 1-0 to take back home Subroto Cup after 42 years.

New Delhi: Distance running legend Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie on Thursday unveiled the unique finisher’s medal for Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon and urged participants to “pace the run and enjoy the moment.”

New Delhi: Veteran Vishnu Vardhan turned the clock back and the years as he knocked much younger Prajwal Dev out of the Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship. here on Thursday.

New Delhi: In an exciting battle, team ‘Tee BIrds’ pulled the rug from under team ‘Robo4me’ winning 4 of their 7 games to tally 8.5 points and climb to the second spot behind ‘The A-Team’ in their group on Day 8 of the Lloyd Delhi Golf Club League here on Thursday.

PM Modi led BJP government of India has put the public sectors of the country on sale for quite some time. After the privatization move of public sector companies, banking, and insurance sector, the central government is now trying to sell district hospitals to private companies, and five states either governed or supported by the BJP have now started the process. These states are Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat and Meghalaya.