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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.

Human rights collective, People’s Union for Civil Liberties, UP, has been meticulously documenting and putting together reports on the unprecedented theatre of violence against minorities, Dalits and women that is the state of Uttar Pradesh. As India’s most populous and perilous state, led since 2017 by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath of the BJP, heads to fresh assembly polls, in what seems to be an ugly and vicious electoral campaign by the ruling party and its leaders, the concerned citizens of India have penned a charter of demands seeking justice and accountability from the government. PUCL’s letter on the human rights abuses in UP, under the aegis of Yogi and the array of rightwing leaders fomenting communal tensions in the state, is a hard-hitting wake-up call for everyone anxious about the plight of the marginalized, especially religious minorities, women and Dalits.

Nirmala Sitharaman in her fourth budget presented on Tuesday February1 has straightaway kicked off an agitated debate with her proposal for taxing profits on trading of digital assets.

Nirmala Sitharaman's 2022-23 budget has a number of digital initiatives. But the main highlight is the introduction of Digital Rupee based on blockchain, a technology that drives the cryptocurrencies. The digital rupee will be a digital depiction of an Indian rupee supported by the Reserve Bank of India and will be equivalent in value to the physical rupee.

The Union Budget 2022-23 provisions and allocations for health, education, and labour are too little to initiate ease of life in the next fiscal. Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman has claimed that the budget has laid foundation for economic growth for the next 25 years which is according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi is Amrit Kal, but people needed immediate help to protect their lives, education of their children, and secured livelihoods for themselves, provisions for which is surprisingly absent from the budget provisions. Whatever there is only cosmetic.

Every leader takes advantage of a crucial moment to settle down. The current Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections will be a decisive moment for the political future of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Once considered a trump card, she now faces a massive challenge in the present elections. The party has not been in power in U.P. since 1989, and the organization is almost extinct. So it will be a Himalayan task for the 49-year-old Priyanka Gandhi, who formally entered the rough and tumble of politics in January 2019.