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DOUBLE ENGINE IN UTTAR PRADESH OF COMMUNAL AND CASTE APPEAL

NARENDRA MODI AND YOGI ADITYANATH ARE EXPOSING TRUE COLOURS
Prakash Karat - 2021-09-16 12:17
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has once again used his favourite analogy of “double engine growth” delivering “double profit” in Uttar Pradesh. Speaking at the foundation laying ceremony of the Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh, the underlying theme of the speech also made it clear what ‘double engine’ actually means. It is a combination of rank communal and caste appeal.

TAMIL NADU LEGISLATION DELINKING STATE FROM NEET IS A BIG STEP

STALIN HAS INITIATED A NEW PHASE IN FORMULATING CENTRE-STATE RELATIONS
K S Chalam - 2021-09-16 12:12
Tamil Nadu government has passed an Act delinking the state from NEET ushering a successive litigations on two important issues in contemporary India. One, this brings to public domain the Emergency era Constitutional amendment removing education from the state list. Two, the present BJP government’s overreach in usurping the powers of the state to conduct tests and admit students of the state not only in their Medical and other professional colleges, but also implementing social justice clauses of each state as per the proportion of the populations of the identified SC, ST, OBC and EBC groups. In this context, Tamilnadu legislation and the initiative taken by Stalin government brings in a new epoch in centre -state relations.

MONETISATION PROGRAMME OF CENTRE WILL LEAD TO WEALTH CONCENTRATION

PUBLIC SECTOR ASSETS TO BE CORNERED BY A FEW CORPORATE GROUPS
Krishna Jha - 2021-09-16 12:06
Monetisation, a recent step by the government, aims at the dilution of public sector units. Each of the units is on sale. In last seven decades, these industrial units were founded to develop the country’s infrastructure, to cater to the basic needs to evolve economy. With public money, the basics of industrial development were built. The tax money of the vast masses was spent to build roads, improve power sector, energy sector, health services, education, airports, railways, and many such initiatives.
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DURAND CUP: BENGALURU FC COMMENCE THEIR CAMPAIGN IN STYLE; BEAT ISL RIVALS KERALA BLASTERS 2-0

Sports Correspondent - 2021-09-15 18:27
Kolkata: In an incident marred match, in which three red cards were flashed, former ISL Champions Bengaluru FC (BFC) commenced their campaign on a winning note overpowering Kerala Blasters 2-0 in the 13oth Duran Football Cup at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK) on Wednesday.

NEW AFGHAN PRIME MINISTER MULLAH HASSAN AKHUND IS AN ENIGMA

THIS VETERAN TALIBAN LEADER IS MORE OF A RELIGIOUS THAN MILITARY LEADER
Harihar Swarup - 2021-09-15 11:26
Mullah Hassan Akhund is the Prime Minister of war-ravaged Afghanistan. He is the chief of the Taliban’s powerful decision-making body ‘Rehbari Shura’. He has served as foreign minister under Taliban’s old regime, and is said to be close to Taliban’s spiritual leader Akhundzada. Known to be more of a religious than military leader, he is on UN blacklist. He is from Kandahar, the birth place of Taliban and believed to have sanctioned the destruction of Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001. He is believed to be highly respected within the movement.

LABOUR PARTY SET TO LEAD LEFT LEANING COALITION GOVT IN NORWAY

CONSERVATIVES LOSE IN GENERAL ELECTIONS AFTER EIGHT YEAR RULE
Sankar Ray - 2021-09-15 11:21
Arbeiderpartiet (Ap), Norway’s Labour Party, partnering with Senterpartiet (Sp), ,Centre Party.andSosialistiskVenstreparti (SV),Socialist Left is set to form the next national government in this Scandinavian country Erna Solberg,Prime Minister of Norway, heading the Høyre (H),Conservatives, has conceded defeat in the general election Her party suffered a setback, losing 4.7 percentage points , which the national broadcaster NRK termed “the election's biggest loser,” shattering the hope of Solberg’s electoral hat trick. Høyre (H)’s coalition partner, Fremskrittspartiet (FrP), Progress Party lost 3.4 percentage points, revealed a preliminary counting of more than 93 per cent of the votes by Norway’s election commission..FrP is Norway's farthest right mainstream party.

CLEAN ENERGY IS IMPERATIVE TO TRANSFORM INDIA

BETTER PLANNING REQUIRED FOR SMOOTH TRANSITION
Dr. Gyan Pathak - 2021-09-15 11:17
Vagaries of climate change have tremendously increased the clean energy needs for India that needs a paradigm shift in its overall energy policy. It will ultimately change almost all aspects of human development. To make the transition smooth, India will have to devise better plan for changing the present mix of unclean and clean energy to achieve net-zero emission level, preferably by 2050.