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Dear Gauri,

Two days from today you turn 60. What would we have done to celebrate this key milestone? There would surely have been anger and tears with the joys and spirits of celebration. We would have argued and bickered about how to be together in the third surge of the pandemic: you, me, Kavitha, Esha and your mother too. But together we would have been. Together, though painfully separated, we are still.

Hit hardest by the COVID-19 crisis and mishandling of the situation while implementing the containment measures for the last two years, the workforce in India have been keenly awaiting for relief in the Union Budget 2022-23, but the Modi government has let them down, at a time when the country is undergoing a third wave with very bad labour market conditions in which workers in the unorganised and informal sectors and the jobless have been the worst sufferers with no jobs, no social security cover.

How does one characterize the budget 2022-23 of the Narendra Modi government presented by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 in Parliament? The budget was presented when the third wave of the pandemic is not yet over, but certainly the intensity is on decline throughout the country. The distress of the pandemic affected people continues and all studies so far have indicated that inequality in the Indian society has widened as the income level of the poor and the middle class has drastically gone down.

Railways annual budget bifurcated from the general budget since 1924-25 has ensured dedicated sustained growth and expansion of Indian Railways to provide efficient bulk passenger and freight rail services to the nation. Reasons for a separate annual rail budget included railways’ need for focused attention for its expansion and modernization as it is a heavy capital intensive enterprise subject to high depreciation, corrosion and rusting, which without special attention will be overlooked and lose its sheen bereft of public and media scrutiny.

Pune: It turned out to be dismal day for the home players as wild carders Ramkumar Ramanathan and Arjun Kadhe crashed out of the Tata Open Maharashtra at the Balewadi Stadium here on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has been allocated Rs 3062.60 crore- Sports, a hike of 11.08 percent (Rs 305.58 Cr) in Today’s budget as compared to the budget estimate in 2021-2022.

New Delhi: Riding on drag flicker Gurjit Kaur’s brace India overpowered spirited China 2-1 in their second leg match of the FIH women’s Hockey Pro League at the Sultan Qaboos Complex in Muscat, Oman on Tuesday.

Pune: Having opened the season with a title, second seed pair of Rohan Bopanna and Ramkumar Ramanathan fancy their chances to add one more to their name in Pune as they prepare for their campaign at the Tata Open Maharashtra here at the Balewadi Stadium.

The United States and several industrialized countries are in the grips of a supply chain hiccup, and explaining it appears to get mired in heated ideological debates that tend to miss the impact the pandemic had on much of the world’s poor, people and households who actually power these supply chains.

Despite its best efforts, the Awami League-run Bangladesh Government is seemingly unable to stop selected attacks targeting an already shrinking minority population. After Hindus, it is the turn of the much smaller Buddhists community to come under fire.