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The first budget of the Narendra Modi Government in a period of pandemic is being presented on February 1 this year. Hardly ten days are left. The pandemic and lock down battered Indian economy is looking for a recipe which should be of relief to those who have been most affected and still distressed during the present fiscal. They are primarily, the jobless, young entrants to the employment market, small businessmen and unorganised workers including rural poor.

Fatorda, Goa: Mohun Bagan had to wait until the 90th minute to score past a stubborn Chennaiyin to chalk out a hard-fought 1-0 win in the Hero Indian Super League at the Fatorda Stadium, on Thursday.

Vasco, Goa: East Bengal boss Robbie Fowler will have little difficulty in getting across to his players on what's at stake for them on Friday. Win, and they will be just another win away from a playoff spot, a comeback that looked improbable in the early stages of the season.

Santiago (Chile): Indian Junior Women’s Hockey Team made a fine comeback from a goal down to defeat the Chile Senior Team 3-2 here at the Prince of Wales Country Club on Wednesday evening.

Chennai: Hitaashee Bakshi played a flawless two-under 70 to grab sole lead at the end of the second round of the second leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Tour at the TNGF Cosmo Golf Course here on Thursday.

Just after four days the country will celebrate the birth of the republic. But this year’s celebration will be different from the carnival of yesteryears. While this time the celebration will miss a foreign celebrity, it would also be held under the shadow of the nearly two month old Satyagrah by the farmers of the country demanding scrapping of the three farm laws. Obviously it implies that nothing is good for the health of the great nation and its precious republic. Further, January 26, in 2021 after the dislocation in economy and social life for the last ten months due to pandemic and the consequent lock down in the country.

Lest we get confused over non-sequiturs, we’ll not talk about Mahatma Gandhi and ‘gram swaraj’ and ‘panchayat’ and blah blahblah... Instead we’ll speak of panchayat elections, the latest example of which is sure-shot ray of hope for the combined opposition arrayed against the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA): Narendra Modi and his sidekick Amit Shah, who carries a hefty wallop, can be defeated, flattened, if all opposition political parties get into a tight embrace and shoot the feet from under the ‘BhaktonKa Alliance.’

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Public bragging notwithstanding, the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) in Kerala has not snapped out of its blue mood.

The people of India came to know from newspaper reports a few days ago that China has set up a village and built around 100 houses along the river Tsari Chu in the Upper Subansiri District of Arunachal Pradesh. The Indian Government did not disclose this fact. Indians came to know of it from media reports quoting the finding of a US-based organization, Planet Labs which, with the help of satellite images found this out. These houses did not exist in 2019. The BJP MP from Arunachal Tapir Gao, said the Chinese had intruded 60 to 70 kms into Indian territory.

January 30 was the day in 1948 we lost the father of our nation Mahatma Gandhi. It is to remind us again that truth is not absolute. It also has its own motion that keeps moving in stages. Bapu had told us decades back that he can guide us to knowing the truth, but he cannot take us to truth, as it always keeps changing.