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LUCKNOW: Atul Kumar Anjaan, general secretary of All India Kisan Sabha said that all out preparations are on in the country to make a big success of the Bharat Bandh on September 25 called by Sanjukta Kisan Morcha. He informed that Samyukt Kisan Morcha at the national Kisan convention held in Delhi recently gave call for Bharat Bandh on September 25 as a part of ongoing farmers movement.

Jay Dubashi is not remembered publicly by the BJP in the 21st century. But, in the 1980s and 1990s, the right wing economist would begin his day early in the party’s national headquarters, spending several hours poring over data and policies of the governments of Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, V P Singh and P V Narasimha Rao and giving his alternative policy options to Atal Behari Vajpayee, L K Advani and several other BJP leaders of the day.

"Final British troops leave Afghanistan to end 20-year campaign" - screaming headline during the last weekend of August 2021 in The Guardian, UK.

India, which missed the bus twice in the past to pursue export-led growth in an era of globalization, is now in the midst of yet another opportunity to utilize trade as an engine of growth. The opportunity has come India’s way in the face of Sino-US trade stand-off and Covid pandemic that has forced many advance economies to explore a new global manufacturing hubs other than China. India fits into the bill but is India ready to cash-in on the opportunity. Does it have the necessary wherewithal to leapfrog and push the sagging growth? Only time will tell if India has succeeded.

With the end of 20 year war and occupation by the US forces in Afghanistan as the latter officially ended its military presence in war-raked Afghanistan ending America's longest war, the Taliban 2.0 will have a free hand to decide which way the new regime will go. The US military C-17 took off from Kabul, the Afghan capital and concluded a chaotic airlift, evacuating more than 120,000 civilians although thousands of others were stranded in the war-torn country.

The BJP leadership at both central level and the state level, has been making efforts to create a climate in Bengal for ousting Mamata Banerjee from the chief ministership of the state. It is still very difficult but the state BJP leaders are continuing to put pressure on the election commission not to hold by elections to the seven assembly constituencies including Bhowanipur from where Mamata will be contesting.

The economic data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) for the first quarter from April to June for the financial year 2021-22 shows that economic recovery is gathering momentum, but the Modi government must avoid creating illusion of growth and revival on the basis of a misleading comparison that the GDP of the country has grown by a record 20.1 per cent, for it may create a dangerous level of complacency and lead to wrong decisions by the stakeholders which may ultimately harm them as well as the country.

Gurugram: Gaurika Bishnoi, will look to get some valuable tournament practice as she tees up at the seventh leg of the Hero Women's Pro Golf Tour 2021 at the DLF Golf & Country Club in Gurugram.

New Delhi: Para Javelin thrower Sumit Antil who won gold with a world record show on Tuesday exuded confidence in representing the country in both the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris 2024.

New Delhi: Delhi Capitals assistant coach Pravin Amre feels that though his side is currently at the top of the table, with 12 points from 8 matches, will start from scratch in the second half of the tournament.