Rahul Gandhi invokes Bhagvad Gita in Kurukshetra, calls his Yatra a 'tapasya'; he says the fight is no longer political as RSS-BJP have captured country's institutions

The urban unemployment rate rose to 10.09% in December from 8.96% in the previous month, while the rural unemployment rate slipped to 7.44% from 7.55%, the data showed.

The rupee was also a victim of a rally in oil prices sparked by the Russia-Ukraine conflict, which pushed India's current account deficit to a record high in the September quarter in absolute terms.

While India's own general elections are not until 2024, some countries, including neighbour Pakistan, are headed to the polls in 2023.

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Little seems to be in the way of Awami League leader Sheikh Hasina successful seeking to win a fifth term overall and a fourth consecutive term as the prime minister.

A clearer picture of the impact on the party's electoral fortunes would emerge in the assembly polls next year, including in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

This was in response to the government seeking ₹500 crore for defence capital expenditure for strategic roads in the country’s Northeast

A large number of youth supporters were also seen, who claimed to be protesting against "unemployment" by showing solidarity with the Yatra

Political instability has been a recurrent feature of Nepal's Parliament since the end of the decade-long Maoist insurgency, and no prime minister has served a full term after the civil war ended in 2006.