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The wave of resistance unleashed by the peasantry against the farm bills has conveyed a message to the nation. The people who feed the nation through their sweat and labor have the courage to fight back injustice. The Modi government was under the illusion that by waxing with terms like 'annadatha' would make them submissive to the three draconian agrarian laws. More than anybody else, the farmers understood the hidden intentions behind the bills. Whatever the government claimed it to be, those bills were opening the gates of Indian agriculture to corporatization and contract farming. They propagated that the bills would make the farmers free from their miseries.

When the world is struggling with arguably the worst health crisis of modern history, there are some other long-term issues that are raising their heads. The tension between India and China in Ladakh and the plans for the annexation of the West Bank by Israel are issues that have brought the discussion around global power dynamics to the fore even when the world population is gripped with disease, sorrow, trauma and mass unemployment. The tension at the Western Sector of the India-China border claimed lives from both sides and exposed the unresolved conflicts between the two neighbouring Asian giants. Donald Trump backed Israel’s plan at annexing the West Bank is the newest in a long series of forcing dispossession and stateless on Palestinians.

The forthcoming Malabar exercises in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal in November will feature all the four countries of the quadrilateral grouping (Quad) – the United States, India, Japan and Australia. The Malabar exercises had begun as joint exercises of the Indian and US navies in the early 1990s. In recent years, it has become trilateral with Japanese participation.

Prior to the roll-out of the Goods and Service Tax (GST) from July 1, 2017, states had substantial power to levy origin-based indirect taxes and levies such as sales tax or VAT, octroi, entry tax, entertainment tax, etc. GST introduced a consolidated levy of destination-based taxation across the nation, with the erstwhile system of fragmented taxes and levies being subsumed within its ambit.

The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena are no longer handshaking friends and won’t be unless the Shiv Sena returns to the earlier nuptial arrangement – BJP on top! The two have been at war since after Uddhav Thackeray dumped his dead father’s legacy and went secular than thou to form government in Mumbai with support from Sharad Pawar’s NCP and Sonia Gandhi’s Congress.

A Perfect Crime, a new four-part documentary series on Netflix about the 1991 assassination of German politician Detlev Rohwedder, surprisingly offers critical viewpoints about German reunification.

The Indian judiciary is one of the most powerful, however, its power hasn’t been used to hold the state accountable in recent times. In India, it performs a function with and for the state. Indian courts no longer work as a shield for the people, they work in close alliance with the executive. India is witnessing a new kind of committed judiciary that works for the aid of state goals.

LUCKNOW: The forthcoming by-elections for seven assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh will be the testing time for Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi.

The thousands of migrant workers who have re-migrated to the cities and their earlier places of work, before fleeing to their native place in the wake of onslaught of the corona epidemic, have started coming back to Bihar to participate in the electioneering.

US think-tank Freedom House has catalogued the abuse of power by governments all over the world in the name of fighting the coronavirus pandemic and heading the table is India. Perhaps a point of consolation is that the likes of United States, the United Kingdom and China are keeping company.