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Fatorda, Goa: Mohun Bagan start favourite as they take on Odisha in the Hero Indian Super League at the Fatorda Stadium, here on Thursday.

The political confrontation over the three new agricultural legislations is no more a mere confrontation between the NaMo regime and food growing farmers. New political dimensions are added to it with the Union Home Minister Ameet Shah stirring out of hibernation for ten months to resolve the differences of the regime with farmers. Determined farmers though refused to allow him space to prove his political abilities, the confrontation is continuing over the farm bills. The Prime Minister was not expected to initiate efforts to pacify as it has to come as a climax. Surprisingly the agriculture minister was not summoned to satisfy farmers nor the law minister to explain away the compulsions for enactments.

With RBI’s Internal Working Group submitting their recommendation that Corporate Houses and Big Business Houses can be allowed as promoters of Banks, a lot of debate is going on. To us in AIBEA, it is not very difficult – rater it is very easy - to come to the conclusion that allowing entry of Corporates to run their own Banks is a very bad idea because, we have our bitter experiences.

Representatives of 35 farmers’ organisations rejecting Modi government’s offer to set up a new committee which would include the agriculture experts and economists to look into issues, has not come as a surprise. Narendra Modi deputing his ministers to talk to the agitating farmers had made it explicit that he was playing to the gallery, was not at all serious in resolving the farmers’ crisis, tried to send the message that he was concerned of the miseries of the farmers, but in reality it was his machination to test the perseverance and patience of the farmers.

After tasting success in the recently concluded Bihar elections, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul (AIMIM) led by Hyderabad MP Assaduddin Owaisi is now concentrating on West Bengal — where polls are just 5 months away. The state has around 27 per cent Muslim population — and MIM’s main aim is to win this section.

On November 15, a group of 15 countries, including the 10 members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other regional powerhouses like China, Japan, and Australia, made history by signing the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The agreement establishes the world’s largest free trade zone, covering almost a third of the world’s population and GDP.

Digital India campaign, initiated by not less than the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is now five years and five months old. It was launched under the ‘visionary leadership’ on July 1, 2015. Within the last five years most of the people were made to believe that the country has made a considerable progress in bridging the great digital divide between the haves and have-not’s. However, the latest global estimate of the UNICEF-ITU should be an eye-opener. During the COVID-19 pandemic when online classes were started, majority of students could not connect themselves because there were no internet connections in their home. South Asia along with sub-Saharan Africa was the most affected region, and thereby Indian students suffered the most in absolute numbers because of being largest populated country.

The reported move by Government of India to set up a state-owned Indian version of Amazon.com is, to say the least, a move that is against the trend of technological power concentrating away from the hands of governments. In fact, the development of information technology occurred outside the domain of governments and has been anchored on private enterprise and expertise.

Now that the road has been cleared for the President elect Joseph Biden to officially take over on January 20 next year for a four year term, the question has arisen as to what will be the nature of his presidency and the shape of his policies - will he be Obama 3 or will he emerge on his own as Biden 1?

The undergraduate curriculum of medical course (MBBS) is broadly divided into early non-clinical and subsequent clinical phases. The non-clinical component is further composed of pre-clinical (Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry) subjects taught in the first year and para-clinical subjects (Pharmacology, Microbiology, Pathology, etc) taught in the second year. The non-clinical subjects are basic and foundational whereas the students study the diseases in detail in the clinical subjects (Pediatrics, Ophthalmology, General Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics & Gynecology, etc).