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New Delhi: After a hiatus of seven months due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the TATA Steel Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) will resume its activities in the first week of next month.

BHOPAL: With the declaration of lists of candidates by both the Congress and BJP, battle lines have been drawn in 28 Vidhan Sabha constituencies which will go to poll on November 3, 2020.

Emerging economies pose threat to stratosphere due to an unprecedented increase in nitrous oxide (N₂O) and leading among them are Brazil, India and China. Global anthropogenic (N₂O) emission is due to agricultural production: 82 per cent. This is revealed in a paper, ‘Nature’: ‘A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks’. It encapsulates in brief an extensive recorded data .spanning four decades, all over the world and findings thereof. It is an international collaboration project, essentially funded and monitored by Japan, in the project, Global Nitrous Oxide Budget 2020involves an international research team of 70 scientists and44 research organizations from around the world. These include two scientists from the National Institute of Environmental Studies (NIES) and Japan Agency of Marine Earth-Science and Technology (Jamstec) of Japan.

In June, the State of California sued CISCO Systems on the grounds of caste-based discrimination. The lawsuit outlined harassment faced by an Indian American employee on the basis of his caste.

The unprecedented situation due to the Corona pandemic and the lockdown has not only aggravated the grim situation of women but also exposed the anti-people, anti-women policies and patriarchal ideology of the BJP-led central government. The year 2020 started in Maharashtra on a positive note. The AIDWA 12th national conference concluded with enthusiasm in Mumbai on the eve of the new year. Thereafter, in January and February, AIDWA women in many districts like Mumbai, Thane, Sangli, Solapur and Pune came out in support of the Shaheen Bagh like protests in those districts. And then the Covid lockdown began in March. AIDWA activists in many districts came out to help the migrant workers and the poor with food and other essentials. Let us take a quick look at the Adivasi women of Thane-Palghar, which is the largest district in the state in both movement and membership so far as AIDWA work is concerned.

Growth under capitalism is associated with an increase in absolute poverty. Marx had recognised this and expressed it as follows: “Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, the torment of labour, slavery, ignorance, brutalisation and moral degradation at the opposite pole, ie, on the side of the class that produces its own product as capital” (Capital Volume I); or again, “As productive capital grows…the forest of uplifted arms demanding work becomes ever thicker, while the arms themselves become ever thinner”(Wage Labour and Capital).

Untouched by the horror the 19- year old girl went through before dying, amidst waves of anger and discontent among people against inaction of the state government, there is floated the conspiracy theory. The course is settled. Finance capital has been making moves to cover its steps. With 21 FIRs, and still more coming against any protest, the attempt is to take the conspiracy theory to a level of frenzy, making it easier to crush the opposition, gag the media.

In the middle of the last century, Marxist economist Victor Perlo described the U.S. economy as an “empire of high finance.” If he were writing today, he’d probably update his assessment to say U.S. capitalism has also become an “empire of high technology.”

We, the people are squabbling on many a matter. There’s rancor in the air. Telecast minute by minute. There’s the fracas surrounding the drug business in Bollywood: Whether narcotic drugs are consumables? And should some narcotics be made legal? Like marijuana in the United States. ‘Make ganja legal’ is a clarion call. Everybody in UP and Bihar get high on Ganja. Sadhus and sanyasinis in the lower reaches of the Himalayas.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The National Investigation Agency(NIA) has come under tremendous pressure in the wake of the NIA court in Kochi seeking clarification on whether it had evidence to prove the terrorism angle in the gold smuggling case.