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The NaMo fan club is busy these days in transmitting on the social media routes a list of achievements of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The message leaves an eerie feeling that like a magician NaMO moved magic wand and thirty achievements appeared in improving life in India. There is no reference to the base that the previous regimes laid in 70 years. In the list of his achievements is included the legislation to ban the prevalent custom of oral divorce to wives in the Muslim community. The item does not specify that six enlightened Muslim women had fought relentlessly the decade long legal battle to get the verdict as the final decree to get the oral divorce declared as illegal and invalid method. It ended the marital uncertainty in lives of the Muslim women especially in the economically weaker families.

Spectres of legendary communist leaders of yesteryears, Bhowani Sen and Somnath Lahiri, haunted the crucial West Bengal state committee meeting of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation last weekend when it declared unequivocally that the views of its general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya that Bharatiya Janata Party would be its "political enemy number one" – a party pushing the country along a fascist path.

It is finally official now sanctified by the endorsement given by the electoral college of the USA at its meeting on Monday, December 14. Democratic candidate Donald Trump has been elected as the President of America in his third attempt by getting 306 votes out of the total of 538 Congress seats. Only 270 votes were needed for his victory.

The continuing protests by the farming community for the past 20 days might as well be one of the biggest challenges of the Modi government. Though the government is seized of the issues the confrontation still continues.

It was in the mid 1990s when I first met Norman. I was working as a Senior General Manager in an organization in Chennai, India. I was totally oblivious of the great revolution happening in the world driven by the methodologies developed in Japan. Norman loved India and would come here whenever he could. Without his spirit of selfless giving, I am sure the productivity of manufacturing companies in India would have been far lower today.

LUCKNOW: Opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh are opposed to the harassment of people in the state in the name of love jihad by Yogi Government.

The chief of Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Asaduddin Owaisi, gets angry when ever any one conjectures that MIM has been directly or indirectly helping the BJP in winning the elections and in return blames the Congress and other secular parties for neglecting the Muslim question. He may be right to some extent in impugning the Congress and other parties, but did he ever really did an introspection or soul searching to find out the real reason?

The union government is reportedly considering a change in the inflation targeting mechanism and to ask the Reserve Bank of India to dilute its hard core inflation targeting stance for formulation of monetary policy. The current mechanism for inflation targeting was introduced several years back when the parliament had mandated a broad inflation targeting band as the guiding principle for RBI’s monetary policy.

Goa: A flurry of missed chances saw table-toppers Mumbai City settle for a 1-1 draw against Jamshedpur in the Hero Indian Super League at the GMC Stadium, here on Monday.

New Delhi: The Badminton Association of India (BAI) on Monday cautioned its players and officials against taking part in tournaments which are not authorised by the federation.