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THE Calcutta High Court has a celebrated history when it comes to the protection of constitutional rights. It has very recently championed the cause of liberty by granting interim bail very expeditiously to the four accused All India Trinamool Congress leaders through its order on May 28th in the matter of CBI ACB Kolkata vs. Shri Firhad Hakim @ Bobby Hakim & Ors. (WPA 10504 of 2021).

Surprises loom large over Japanese investment in India, which plummeted in 2020 against the spurring growth in investment by global riches like USA, Singapore and UK. Analysts were agog with Japanese volte- face to India’s FDI potential, despite the fact that total FDI flow in India spurred during COVID 19 pandemic. It increased by over 19 percent in 2020-21.

Once again the Delhi police has been caught distorting the judicial provision and penal policy by not releasing the three student activists Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita and Asif Iqbal Tanha granted bail on June 16 by the Delhi High Court on the plea that it needed time to conduct address verification of the accused and their sureties.

Nepal Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli lost parliamentary majority on May 10 but did not resign. He continues to be the PM, courtesy president Bidya Devi Bhandari. The next election to the House of Representatives will be held on November 12 and 19 this year. In the 275 member Lower House, Oli got only 75 votes on May 10, when 232 votes were cast. The Prachanda faction of the now-split Nepal Commuist Party does not support him, the Nepal Congress does not support him, the Rashtriya Janata Party does not support him but they cannot join hands together to form an alternative government. So Oli continues to occupy the high office without majority. This is the tragedy of Nepal.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The K. Sudhakaran era in the Congress in Kerala has begun with the Kannur strongman formally taking charge as the president of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on June 16 amid much hype and blatant violation of the Covid-19 protocol. The Police have filed cases against six Congress leaders and 100 workers for flouting covid guidelines to witness the change of guard at Indira Bhavan.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has an inordinate capacity for doublespeak and hypocritical posturing. Even then, his performance at the outreach meeting of the G7 Summit at Cornwall reached new heights.

What we have witnessed this week is the most profound reset of global diplomatic relations in recent times. A meeting between two leaders of the two most militarily powerful countries in a way sets the clock back into the past which significantly could be a pointer to the future global dispensation.

New Delhi: Going by the current form and recent performances against strong sides, Indian (men) hockey team has a very good chance of podium finish at the Tokyo Olympics feels former Chief Coach Roelant Oltmans.

It is a sign of the times that we live in that a court has to say protesting and terrorist acts are two different things and not interchangeable to suit the whims and fancies of the government of the day. The observation, by the Delhi High Court while granting bail to three student activists in the national capital’s CAA protests towards the end of 2019,amounts to a clear indictment of the government as by no stretch of imagination can the two be considered to be the same thing and shows highhandedness on the part of the executive.

This week, at a G-7 conference, India reaffirmed its commitment to democracy in a joint statement. The statement, which India has signed, says, “We are at a critical juncture, facing threats to freedom and democracy from rising authoritarianism, electoral interference, corruption, economic coercion, manipulation of information including disinformation, online harms and cyber-attacks, politically-motivated internet shutdowns, human rights violations and abuses, terrorism and violent extremism.”