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KOLKATA: Sanjay Roy, the prime accused in the rape and murder case of a post graduate student of RG Kar Medical College and hospital in Kolkata was pronounced guilty by additional district and sessions judge, Sealdah court, Anirban Das. The civic volunteer was sentenced lifetime imprisonment on January 20 and the state government was directed to give a compensation of Rs 17 lakhs to the family of the deceased.

People fought kings and queens, sultans and maharajas, for exercising their right to vote. Those were days when democracy was nascent and voting was limited to where the magna carta prevailed and where immigrants took over part of a continent and called it ‘New World’.

The recent volatility in the exchange rate of the Indian rupee against the US dollar has given rise to a debate on how the central bank should react to the situation of progressive depreciation of the national currency.

The decision by Nate Anderson to wind up his Hindenburg Research firm ahead of the Trump administration taking charge has certainly given a political window of escape to the BJP and the Modi government, which have been most vocal in defending the Adani group target by the Research firm.

The outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden said in his farewell address to the American nation on Thursday that the democracy in U.S. is sliding into an oligarchy dominated by the big tech billionaires. He did not name Trump but it was clear that he was mentioning of the incoming Presidential tenure of Donald Trump which starts from January 20 following his inauguration.

Global labour market is under immense pressure with economic deceleration, geopolitical tensions, the rising costs of climate change and unresolved debt issues. Though, in 2024, global employment expanded in line with a growing labour force, keeping the unemployment rate steady, similar to previous year, young people continued to face much higher unemployment rates with few signs of improvements.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government led by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has voiced its strong objection to the Union Government’s plans for offshore sand mining along the Kerala coast.

On January 23 this year, the nation is going to observe 128th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Netaji was a firm believer that rashtrabhakti (patriotism) is a fusion of religion and nationalism, of the spiritual and the political. He looked for religious philosophy that would encourage political activism to lead him to find out the teachings of Swami Vivekananda and the writings of Aurobindo Ghose. In the end, he introduced his political activism with a religious aspect.

NEW YORK: Losing the powerful film director David Lynch is so awful that it is hard to know what to say and how best to say it. Though he’d stepped away from feature film directing after Inland Empire (2006) and left as his long-form swan song the stunning return of the television show Twin Peaks (2017), as long as he lived there was always hope for one final Lynch movie. And just knowing he was there — alive and odd and chipper and liable to release at any moment some mad short film or weather report or cartoon featuring The Angriest Dog in the World — was cheering. If there was room in the world for David Lynch to be successful and widely admired, maybe there’d be room in the world for your peculiar self as well?

January 16, 2025 was celebrated by Union Government of India as National Startup Day, which was followed by a boasting that India with more than 1.59 lakh startups has now firmly established itself as the third-largest startup ecosystem in the world. The claim was on the rise of numbers, while in quality where India’s startup ecosystem stands? Very low on the ladder as per the Global Startup Ecosystem Index Report 2024.