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Budget has come, offering no optimism, no security against the nose diving economy, and without succour to the starving, unemployed masses. Whatever it has offered for the common masses is underlined by the falling living standards and continuation of further contraction. As even essentials are getting beyond the reach of the masses, there can hardly be expected any growth in the consumer spending. The incomes are eroded in every region of the society except that of the corporate. At the very subsistence level, the expenses spent on basic minimum keep eating away into the savings even for the middle class not to mention those living under poverty line.

On James Joyce’s 40th birthday, Sylvia Beach in Paris published his now most famous work, Ulysses, written in Trieste, Zurich, and Paris, 1914-1921. That was on February 2, 1922. Excerpts had appeared in the U.S. magazine The Little Review between 1918 and 1920. But deemed obscene, it was banned in the English-speaking world. The modernist novel immortalizes in its nearly one thousand pages a single day in Joyce’s home town of Dublin—June 16, 1904, the day he met Nora Barnacle, then a chambermaid from Galway, working in Dublin. Bloomsday, named after the main hero Leopold Bloom, has been celebrated in Dublin and the world over ever since Ulysses was published.

It is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end but it is the end of the beginning. Churchill's famous words express my own feelings about the latest psychotic Bitcoin cycle. This crypto-puppy was at an all time high of $68,990 last November but then plunged to $33,000 in its January lows.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ANI interview was by a journalist who hobnobs with BJP leaders. So it was that the questions were to Modi’s comfort level. Most of the 70 minutes went with the feeling that Modi was interviewing Modi! The one-on-one interview setting, however, kept Modi from re-enacting the parliamentary performance of the day before which fetched him sustained rounds of applause and lots of table-thumping.

The Congress is being watched, more keenly than ever before, not only by all political parties but also by the people in the country in general and Uttar Pradesh in particular, the state that goes to polls with first phase of voting on February 10. Party’s campaigns for the last six months in the state attracted huge crowds, its promises considerably influenced even the manifestoes of the ruling BJP and its main contender SP released just hours before the end of election campaigning for the first phase, and now its manifesto is going to influenced the whole election campaign of all political parties. It is a significant development in the history of Congress in decades.

The hijab worn by Muslim girl students has been seized upon by the BJP and Hindutva forces to create another divisive and anti-Muslim polarisation in Karnataka.

The decision of the five members of the Congress Legislature Party in Meghalaya to participate in the Government along with the BJP, is a big blow to the efforts of the opposition parties at the national level to build unity against the BJP in the coming Lok Sabha elections in 2024. Only last week, the Congress Lok Sabha member and de facto party chief Rahul Gandhi gave an impassioned speech in the house exposing the Narendra Modi Government and offering a vision of a secular and inclusive India which will be possible only by uniting the non-BJP parties against the Sangh Parivar. His speech opened the way for working on a platform for the non-BJP parties including the Congress to challenge the BJP in the coming national battle two years hence.

New Delhi: Displaying awesome firepower India walloped South Africa 10-2 to record their second successive win against the hosts at the FIH Hockey Pro League at Potchefstroom on Wednesday.

New Delhi: All India Tennis Association (AITA) on Wednesday announced that it will set up ‘Davis Cup Fan Lounge’ for World Group 1 play offs tie against Denmark scheduled to be held here on 4th and 5th March.

Hyderabad: Gaurika Bishnoi commenced her 2022 season’s campaign on a high note as she carded a career-best 6-under 66 that put her on top of the leader board on the opening day of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Boulder Hills Golf & Country Club here on Wednesday.