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The credibility of the Supreme Court was considered to be at the lowest ebb during the tenure of chief justice Dipak Misra. The so-called ‘mutiny’ by the four senior-most judges was described as the darkest hour of Indian judiciary, amidst allegations of the CJI misusing his Master of the Roster powers to constitute ‘pliable’ benches ready to do the bidding of interested parties, planting serious doubt in the minds of people about the integrity of the institution. Justice Misra has even been accused by a retired colleague of having behaved like an ‘agent’ of some external force, which the judge stopped short of identifying, but the reference was quite obvious.

With every passing day there are new innovations in the field of medicine. New drugs and devices are coming out. It is therefore important for the medical professionals to be regularly updated through continued medical education (CME) programs. Academic bodies hold their annual national meets as well as state and local CMEs. As the advancement is very rapid, the number of such events has increased manifold in the past few years. Various state councils made it mandatory for the medical professionals to attend such CMEs and obtain credit hours for renewing the registration. The medical council also gave broad guidelines about organizing such events. The clause 1.2.3 of the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette & Ethics) Regulations, 2002 states ‘A physician should participate in professional meetings as part of Continuing Medical Education programmes for at least 30 hours every five years, organized by reputed professional academic bodies or any other authorized organization. The compliance of this requirement shall be informed regularly to Medical Council of India or the State Medical Council as the case may be’.

The Kerala government has ‘51’ reasons to hang its head in shame. And Pinarayi Vijayan is the ‘head’. The only place Vijayan can hide is Pinarayi, the village with the rock that delivered CPM. Friday, Pinarayi Vijayan was on a slippery slope. He is atheist who contracted the job to get converts to the Hindu-fold and never in history have so many godless shown such devotion to lay obeisance at the feet of Swami Ayyappa than under Pinarayi.

India is all set to enter coalition era with the single-party rule appears to be ending. As the situation obtains now neither the BJP nor the Congress is in a position to form government at the Centre or in States on their own. The BJP, perhaps, for the last time got a massive majority in 2014 Lok Sabha elections. In this year’s general elections—in April and May—the saffron party does not appear to get a majority and has to form coalition if it emerges as Single largest party. So is the case with the Congress. Coalition means instability and lack of good administration. Remember ‘Ayaram, Gayaram” days of sixties and then prevalent instability.

Two of the women most in the news these days delivered blows to two of the nation’s most powerful and increasingly unpopular men. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi actually pulled off on January 16 what might be the only good thing to result from the government shutdown: the possible cancellation of President Trump’s State of the Union address.

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has managed to emerge as a probable opposition candidate pushing other regional leaders like West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu, NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Telangana chief minister Chandrasekhar Rao behind for the post of prime minister. At this moment, only Congress president Rahul Gandhi seems to be ahead of Mayawati in the race.

The final version of the World Development Report (WDR) 2019 of the World Bank released at the end of November 2018 landed like a bombshell. It was a powerful refutation of World Bank’s own 2016 WDR, which declared that the proportion of jobs threatened by automation was 69 percent in India and 77 percent in China. With such startling figures, the 2016 WDR figures stunned not only India but the entire world.

After having failed in setting agenda of choice by raising various emotional and sectarian issues, this week the Narendra Modi government is back on using old cases and filing new cases on the charges of sedition against those who had dared to speak against the government. In Assam a Left intellectual has been charge-sheeted for sedition as he has opposed the government on the issue of citizen’s bill.

BHOPAL: The Kamal Nath Government of Madhya Pradesh has made three important moves having far-reaching implications on the administration and politics of the state. The three decisions include associating private persons with governance, modification in the order scrapping the pension of MISA detainees and formal launching of farmers’ loan waiver scheme.

The defence industry is under serious threat. The right to pension of the government employees is also under attack. The present government with the sole intention of supporting the private corporate houses has decided to handover the strategic defence production and related activities like Research and Services etc. to the corporate houses, mainly to Amabanis and Adanis. The present government initially announced that “Seventy percent of the requirements of the Armed Forces are being imported and to replace the import, these products will be made in India in the name of “Make in India” by the private houses and multinationals and for that purpose 100 percent FDI in defence is permitted. Defence Technology is complicated and it takes years to develop it, and hence the few developed countries for whom defence equipment selling is a major source of income are neither prepared to give technology nor to invest money in our country.