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It’s a historic new era for Honduras, where the people managed to defeat Juan Orlando Hernández’s narco state and elect Xiomara Castro, the country’s first-ever woman president, and a progressive to boot. As presidential candidate of the left-leaning Libre Party, Xiomara Castro won a landslide victory and was inaugurated on January 27 in a ceremony at the National Stadium, attended by thousands of enthusiastic supporters.

On the face of it, Bhagat Singh Mann, the newly anointed chief ministerial face of the Aam Admi Party in coming election in Punjab has a razor sharp wit directed towards the ruling dispensation, and the bluster. Be it in a village, a dhaba or a Punjab Roadways bus, you are sure to encounter someone like him.

Finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, has delivered a muscular and masculine budget with lots of enthusiasm in it. She has been ambitious and seeking to set the court for the country for the next 25 years, hidden in platitudes of Amrit Kaal.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made some much-awaited announcements about income from crypto transactions in the Union Budget 2022-23 presented on February 1, 2022. As per the budget proposals, the government intends to levy a flat 30% tax on profits earned on crypto transactions. This is irrespective of the income tax slab applicable to a person. The government has also proposed to levy 1% TDS for payment transfers involving cryptocurrencies. The government has also announced its decision to introduce a central bank digital coin (CBDC) in the next fiscal.

Kairana Mission of BJP top leaders Narendra Modi and Amit Shah has failed to yield the desired result of polarisation of Hindu and Muslim. The back ground materials and the action paper which the saffron think tank and top intellectuals had prepared after putting nearly a month of untiring and sustained effort could not help these two leaders.

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.