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New Delhi: A 51-member strong boxing squad will represent India at the ASBC Asian Youth & Junior Boxing Championships scheduled in Dubai from August 20 to 31.

All the newspapers and television news programs right now are filled with stories about the dark future hanging over Afghan women and girls as the Taliban retakes control of their country. The Guardian late last week featured an article by an unnamed Afghan woman who said she is now hiding the two university degrees she earned, searching for a burqa to cover every inch of herself as the women-hating fundamentalists of the Taliban close in.

With the capture of Kabul by the Taliban, Afghanistan has descended into chaos. Horrific visuals of ordinary Afghanis storming the capital’s airport and clinging on to airlines and military transport, in a desperate attempt to flee the repressive regime, have been streamed the world over. There is a well-founded fear, particularly amongst minorities, women, local staff of foreign coalition forces, journalists and academics, of persecution at the hands of the new regime.

With the blessings of RBI and as per its guidelines, Secondary Market for trading of Corporate Loans and debt trading is being created. As per report available, 10 top Banks that include 4 PSBs, 4 Private Sector Banks and 2 Foreign Banks have come together and formed an Association named Secondary Loan Market Association to begin Corporate Loan trading. To start with, such online platform will create the secondary market for trading of corporate loan within the Banks under the Association or sale to ARC. Our Union Bank is yet to become a member of the Association and will become in due course after seeing the functioning of such arrangements. Other Banks will also join as the setup will be too luring.

President Lopez Obrador of Mexico in his inaugural speech itself had called neoliberalism a “disaster” and a “calamity”. The Leftist political party, MORENA, to which he belongs, had stated in its programme: “The global economic crisis has revealed the failure of the neoliberal model. The economic policy imposed by the international financial organisations leads to the fact that Mexico is one of the countries with the slowest growth.”MORENA’s programme had proposed instead that the “State should assume responsibility to lead development without foreign interference”.

Initially, it was thought that the ruling BJP led National Democratic Alliance would easily win the state assembly polls in Assam held this year. Many considered that Congress wasn’t that strong enough to challenge the BJP led NDA. However, the grand old party decided to ally with its once arch-rival Badruddin Ajmal led All India United Democratic Front to form the Grand Alliance, which also consisted of small parties including the three Communist parties. As the campaign went on, the Grand Alliance started gaining steam and this led to a section of political analysts seeing a chance of a surprise victory of the Congress-led alliance. That didn’t happen. The ruling BJP led NDA, as most expected, emerged victorious for the second time.

The latest order of the Calcutta High Court recommending probe by CBI and SIT into post poll violence in West Bengal is a big setback to the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her Government .The High Court refusing to subscribe to the reiteration of Trinamool Congress chief that no post-poll violence happened in Bengal and whatever cases happened in Bengal were pre-poll violence, when the state was under the Election Commission, has pushed her government towards an uncertain future.

Union Government has been trying hard to push labour reforms and privatisation of the central public sector undertakings for a long time. Ever since Narendra Modi became prime minister of the country in May 2014, these are being pursued with greater vigour claiming them to be in national interest. Has their ‘national interest’ anything to do with the ‘working class’ in the country? The recently released 60th annual Public Enterprises Survey 2019-20 data shows that their ‘national interest’ is just opposite to the interest of the ‘working class’.

Indians have had to undergo the most harrowing experience for 18 months under dread of certain death due to the corona pandemic. They were forced to live in their closed home for the period to ensure India is safe. It was the most illogical advice as cowards cannot ensure of their home land. People have to come out, with or without the approval of the ruling to come out to face the enemy ant the pandemic was an aggression. Instead the Prime Minister imposed a lock down to suspend social activities, economic operations and lock all places of worship... Schools were closed down.

Chennai: A fully sanitised MMRT will witness another grand congregation of the country’s top talent and two-wheeler manufacturers when the first round of the Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship commences on Friday, with over 100 entries in the fray in a card of 19 races that will be held behind closed doors, while strictly complying with the Covid-19 safety protocols.