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Rahul accuses PM Modi of undermining MGNREGA, favouring corporates

Rahul accuses PM Modi of undermining MGNREGA, favouring corporates

Raebareli (UP), Jan 20 (PTI) Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of seeking to centralise power and weakening welfare safeguards for the poor, alleging that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) had been undermined. Addressing party workers during his visit to Raebareli, his parliamentary constituency, the Congress MP said the government had “insulted” MGNREGA by changing its name and, more importantly, had withdrawn the security it provided to the marginalised, which he described as an attack on the roots of democracy. “The Congress is running a nationwide

PM Modi’s BJP elects youngest-ever president with eye on youth votes

PM Modi’s BJP elects youngest-ever president with eye on youth votes

MUMBAI, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chose a little-known legislator from India’s poorest state as the party’s youngest president on Tuesday, a generational shift in the effort to retain young voters. Nitin Nabin, 45, takes over from outgoing president J.P. Nadda, 65, months before key state elections, one of them in the eastern state of West Bengal, which the BJP has never won and is strongly focused on. A five-time lawmaker from the eastern state of Bihar, Nabin was elected unopposed as the party’s 12th president after Modi and other leaders proposed him.

RBI likely selling dollars to curb rupee’s slide, traders say

RBI likely selling dollars to curb rupee’s slide, traders say

MUMBAI, Jan 20 (Reuters) – The RBI (Reserve Bank of India) was likely selling dollars to limit the rupee’s weakness on Tuesday, four traders told Reuters, as the currency remains within touching distance of a fresh record low. The rupee was last at 90.99 per dollar as of 11:00 a.m. IST, down 0.1% on the day. The currency declined to 91.0525 earlier in the day, threatening to breach its all-time low of 91.0750 hit last month. Some state-run banks were spotted offering dollars, but the quantity was very limited as has been the trend in the last two days, one

Positive thinking can boost immune system

Positive thinking can boost immune system

Positive thinking might help the brain support the immune system in a non-invasive way, according to a study published in Nature Medicine. Israeli researchers of of Tel Aviv University set out to investigate how thoughts and feelings can directly affect our physical well-being. “Although clinical benefits of positive expectations from medical treatment (as in the case of placebo responses) have been extensively documented, the underlying neural mechanism of such a mind-body link has only begun to be elucidated,” the researchers wrote. The team trained 85 people to activate a part of the brain linked to reward and positive expectations, which

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