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At Paris games, the Pakistani athlete Arshad Nadeem clinched the country’s first individual gold medal, which was also its first track-and-field medal. India’s Neeraj Chopra secured a splendid silver in the same game of Javelin throw.

India's busiest container port, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) is grappling with operational challenges that have resulted in long truck queues and delays for cargo. These disruptions are primarily attributed to a berth upgrade project at APM Terminals Mumbai, which has temporarily reduced capacity. The upgrade project, aimed at enhancing productivity and capacity, has taken one of the berths out of commission for six months. This has put immense pressure on the remaining terminals, leading to vessel bunching and increased yard inventory levels.

The issue of caste census has finally mounted on the agenda of the Parliamentary Committee on Welfare of OBCs led by the BJP. The party has been rejecting the opposition INDIA bloc’s demand for conducting caste census in the country. It was much to the frustration of the BJP, that its chief allies in the NDA supported the demand for caste census that has lately become a very sensitive political issue.

Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray can't escape the noose now. The Muslim community of Maharashtra want from the Maha Vikas Aghadi their "hissedaari" in the Maharashtra Assembly, which will b be possible only if Muslims are given their share of tickets to contest the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections.

KOLKATA: In recent weeks Manipur has not seen any escalation in the ethnic conflict between the Meiteis and the Kuki-Zo tribal communities that broke out on May 3, 2023 on the issue of tribal status for the majority Meitei community concentrated in the valley. However, the Opposition do not agree with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s suggestion that ‘hope for peace’ in the trouble-torn north-eastern state is at last visible. Modi mentioned about his hope while referring in some detail to Manipur in Rajya Sabha on July 3 when he spoke on the motion of thanks to President for her address to Parliament’s joint sitting.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government headed by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has swung into action by initiating steps to implement the Hema Committee report on the problems plaguing the Malayalam film industry.

Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once said that a week is too long a time in politics. This was in the context of post-war turmoil in British politics. As regards India, it seems that the post 2024 Lok Sabha elections scenario is changing fast and the most affected has been the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on his consecutive third term comparable only to the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

Narendra Modi’s brief visit to Ukraine has been hailed by the pro-American circles and the corporate media as a big success. According to this version, here is an Indian leader whose international stature has been heightened by the holding of the G20 summit in Delhi and gaining recognition as a leader of the Global South, making a historic visit to Kyiv, thus opening the way for India to play a mediating role in bringing about peace in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

What emerged from the meeting held by the Union Minister of Labour and Employment Mansukh Mandaviya with Central Trade Unions (CTUs) on August 28 is quite disconcerting, since the government is bent upon implementing the newly announced Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) in the Budget 2024-25 which it has been said, would further enrich the corporates in the name of employment generation at the cost of small enterprises and workers, who will have to suffer even more than now.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is in all sorts of moods. She is “deeply sad". She is boiling mad. And she's not in a forgiving mood. But in a generous mood, she was dedicating a Trinamool event to the memory of the Kolkata rape-cum-murder victim, the 31-year-old trainee doctor, who was mindlessly and senselessly slaughtered in the seminar hall of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College & Hospital on the night of August 9, leading to nationwide protests.