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Contrary to the claim of Modi fan club, India’s global prestige has been falling sharply. Even the rank of Indian Passport fell from 74 in 2013 to 90 in 2021 out of 199 countries, according to Henley Passport Index. The slippage of its rank was 16 places during Modi’s regime. It clearly contradicts the claim of the members of Modi fan club, and belief of supporters that after Modi became prime minister of India, India’s prestige has tremendously increased, since he has made the country a ‘global player now’.

The gruesome attack on protesting farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh on October 3 marks a new level of violence against the farmers’ movement which has been going on for the past ten months.

LUCKNOW: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi scored over other opposition leaders byhandling intelligently Lakhimpur Keri leading to killing of farmers. The courage of Priyanka Gandhi who reached Lucknow same night and was arrested at Sitapur on her way to Lakhimpur Kheri to meet families of victims, has generated tremendous goodwill all over the country.

New Delhi: Bengaluru’s Khalin Joshi carded six-under 72 to emerge sole leader at the halfway stage of the Rs. 70 lakh TATA Steel PGTI MP Cup at Delhi Golf Club here on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Spearheaded by Gurjit Kaur and Harmanpreet Singh, Indian players and coaches made a clean sweep of the Individual FIH Hockey Stars Awards 2021 announced at Lausanne, Switzerland on Wednesday.

It is quite ominous that the Facebook outage, which denied over a billion users of their favourite social media platform, coincided with a hearing attended by insider whistle blower Frances Haugen before the US Senate Commerce, Science and Transport Subcommittee. What transpired at the hearing remains largely unreported. That Frances was armed with thousands of secret internal documents, which she has apparently shared with US Securities and Exchange Commission, members of the Congress and some newspapers, is highly disconcerting to founder Zuckerberg, who saw his fortunes shaved by not less than $6 billion as the company share price dropped nearly five percent in the space of a few hours that had seen the platform go down. This was in addition to tens of millions of dollars in advertisement revenue that the platform lost during the outage.

World Bank has decided to stop Ease of Doing Business (EODB) survey after the scandal revealed to boost China by changing the methodology. It nullified the efficacy of World Bank Ease of Doing Business survey, one of the important surveys for investment destination. Former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh lamented Modi government chasing “bogus ranking” and consulting firm Mackinsey vented despair of companies still facing mountain of obstacles in obtaining permits in India.

The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 of India states that ‘Teachers truly shape the future of our children – and therefore, the future of our nation’. However, the future of our children and the nation is endangered. We lack teachers in large number, many are underqualified or not qualified, their service conditions are bad, and the quality of education is very low. The learning experience, particularly, that of the most marginalized and vulnerable students, has been compromised. COVID-19 has further worsened the condition. Though education is a concurrent subject, the Centre is chiefly responsible for it since it has a role in shaping it through several missions, schemes and regulatory norms enabled by the Right to Education Act 2009.

WASHINGTON: A trove of almost 12 million internal documents, e-mails, and memos from tax havens where the rich set up secret trusts to hide from taxes—while using their corporate clout to stick tax tabs to the rest of us—highlight stateside tax havens, notably South Dakota, available to the wealthy and well-connected.

Salima Mazari — one of three women district governors in Afghanistan — barely survived the brutal Taliban takeover. She opened up from an American base about her escape, on why she despises the Taliban and the challenges she faced in her life and career.