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How can the Congress take a hit and no lightning bolts strike 10, Janpath when the loyalist stabs the cherished family in the back? Instead, the high command carries on as if nobody other than the perpetrator Ashok Gehlot could get hurt. And, by extension, the instigator Bharatiya Janata Party, which was in any case behind Gehlot’s cowardly “gadaari”. The sore truth is if anybody should take the blame for the Congress ‘aala'-command’s collapse, it is Rahul Gandhi, who owns the party but refuses to be Congress President!

The story of meteoric rise of Gautam Adani to world’s second richest person as per the leading journal Forbes, has indeed a key element of getting ‘benefit from a rising India’ since 2014, when his friend Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of the country. It is evident from even Adani’s keynote address delivered in the two-day (September 26-27) 20th Forbes Global CEO conference in Singapore.

Political parties in India have begun advance planning for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls from now on. The ruling NDA and the Opposition parties have been vying each other in their preparations. They are making and remaking strategies according to the political climate. The stage is set for the next general elections in 2024.

Gurugram: Top professional including Gaganjeet Bhullar, Jyoti Randhawa ,Manu Gandas and Shamim Khan are among the 126 golfers who will battle it out for top honours in the inaugural Rs One crore prize money Kapil Dev – Grant Thornton Invitational slated to be played from 27 – 30 September at the Gary Player Course of the DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurugram.

BERLIN: Some readers might expect – at last – a jolly, happy bulletin from Berlin. Germany, fourth richest power in the world, the strongest in Europe, seems to have overcome at least for now the ravages of the pandemic. Except in public transportation and medical institutions, face masks have all but disappeared. There are more jobs again – at least in fast-food or discount shops, in restaurants and hotels or for computer experts. Subways, buses, and streetcars usually run on time – and sometimes even the inter-city trains.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is not known for evolving the device of communal harmony. An insight into the working of the RSS would unravel the truth that its Maharashtrian Brahmin leadership are known for striving to give a concrete shape to their basic idea of “Hindu Rashtra”. They regularly demonise Muslims, Dalits and backwards.

Politics is the art of keeping the adversary guessing, which is what Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is good at. The harbinger of the crisis that is dogging the Congress in Rajasthan, Gehlot says something before going to bed and, then, something altogether different the next morning.

The latest data released by the National Statistical Office has been presented in a way that shows a ‘buoyancy’ in the formal job creations in India in July 2022 compared to a year before, across the three major schemes – Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF), Employees’ State Insurance, and National Pension Scheme (NPS). However, it has all the elements that mislead and does not provide a clear picture of the ground realities of the volatile job market in the country. Formalization of jobs is too slow to outpace the fast increasing informal jobs sans social security coverage.

It may be early to predict the future of Vedanta-Foxconn’s proposed $22-billion joint venture project in India for an integrated display and semiconductor fabrication ecosystem. The promoters have already got themselves enmeshed in a political controversy over a sudden change in the project location — from Maharashtra to Gujarat. Significantly, the location change came just three months before the Gujarat assembly election. The promoters were in dialogue with the Maharashtra government for several months. The deal was about to be signed and sealed when Vedanta-Foxconn changed their mind to locate the project in Gujarat. The choice may be more political than economic. Gujarat has little background in electronics manufacturing.

The joint opposition rally held at Fatehabad in Haryana on Sunday organized the INLD leader Om Prakash Chautala on the occasion of the birth anniversary of his father Devi Lal has made a good success in facilitating the unity of the anti-BJP political parties to take on the Narendra Modi Government in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.