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Within a month of Boris Johnson occupying the office of the Prime Minister, the Britain government has announced to close the door to “low skilled” migrant workers.

Energy Sector in India will soon be undergoing a paradigm shift, if the Union Government implements two key announcements made by the Finance Minister. The first is to shut down all the thermal power units spewing out pollutants over the permissible limit, and the second in installing solar plants along railway tracks. Focusing on Renewable Energy is a good idea, but it must be translated into reality and must not remain an idea, as has been the case with many other great ideas, like doubling farmers’ income, jobs to all hand, and so on. Even in the renewable energy sector, we have been hearing big talks but witnessing dismal performance, though India has committed itself to rapid and large-scale renewable energy capacity addition.

In 2019, the euphorically intoned question on everyone’s lips that defined the tiny world of cinematography was: Have you seen Parasite yet?

The other day Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned that India can defeat Pakistan in less than ten days. Similar overtones have been heard repeatedly from Pakistani leadership and the army as well who have even warned of using nuclear weapons in case of war between the two countries. India is a big country and no wonder we have superiority in conventional weapons system over Pakistan. Our army is much more disciplined and under the command of democratic institutions. We have to our record winning wars earlier. We had to fight war in 1971 to sort out humanitarian crisis. This occurred when people of East Pakistan were being brutalized by the repressive rule of the then Pakistan government. Much has changed since then in the international politics.

Shorn off the emotional quotient of the Sabarimala women’s entry issue, the proceedings of the nine-member bench considering the larger issues of religious practices and fundamental rights constitute a real thriller.

The most unnerving aspect of the Ayodhya verdict was the silence of the Muslim community. The community was dissatisfied with the verdict and felt that justice had not been done, but nobody protested. It had lost faith in its sense of agency, citizenship rights and, the democratic structures and processes in India.

India refused to join RCEP. Because, China became a big burden for India’s trade deficit. Export is recognized a strong driver for the growth when the nation is reeling under slow growth, according to Economic Survey. USA is to play an important role as it is the biggest export destination for both in goods and service from India. It accounts for 16 percent in goods exports and 50 percent of IT and BPO services exports.

EDINBURG (SCOTLAND): Boris Johnson has rejected a call from Scotland's first minister for a second independency referendum. He said a referendum would "continue the political stagnation Scotland has seen for the past decade". This is nothing but to simplify the peoples’ aspiration and deny the failure of the successive Conservative governments in fulfilling the aspirations of the people.

More often than not, political developments in Assam have an instant ripple effect on neighbouring West Bengal. With the unsettling effect of the Assam NRC updating exercise on Bengal and other states still continuing, another administrative decision announced in Guwahati has set Muslims elsewhere restive and uneasy. First out-of-state reactions from the community have just been made from Kolkata.

Many people are writing off the Grand Old Party, the 135-year-old Indian National Congress, after its poor performance in the recent Delhi polls, as it has suffered one set back after the other since 2014, despite some good patches in between. Can the Congress with such long history disappear? Will the Congress really perish or it will survive? It is for the millions of Congressmen to answer.