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The average Jameel in India has delivered instant triple-T to his wife by smartphone, whatsapp and email. And not a single average Jameela has stepped forward and said she was thrilled at getting talaq-e-biddat.

People are being enforced to become participant in zealously pursued digitalization by the government of India, a country where almost 26 percent people are illiterate and 950 million people are digitally illiterate out of the total population of about 1.3 billion. Moreover, we are not protected against cyber risks and potential costs. Cyber insurance is not available, and security level in very distressing.

The 45th US President Donald John Trump’s 50-word tweet, accusing Pakistan of siphoning US $ 33 billion-plus aid to Afghan terrorists giving them ‘safe heaven’ and ‘given us nothing but lies & deceit’ has been volleyed back by Pak Minister of Foreign Affairs Khawaja Asif in twitter: ”He can hire a US based Audit firm on our expense to verify this figure & let the world know who is lying & deceiving.” This rebuff was expected as Special Assistant to the Pak Prime Minister Dr. Musadik Malik assured that Islamabad would respond to US in line of international diplomatic norms. But keeping up diplomatic dignity, the Pakistan Foreign Office summoned US Ambassador David Hale and lodged its protest against President Trump’s tweet.

In recent weeks, certain decisions of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) have kept political circles guessing on issues such as floor coordination in Parliament, putting up a joint front against the Centre, or the anti-triple talaq legislation sponsored by the NDA government.

With traditional investment avenues not guaranteeing even plausible returns and the equity markets stymied by the greed and recklessness of firms floating even initial public offerings (IPOs), leave aside those established ones not living up to their reputations for fair-play, it is small wonder that legions of even ill-informed Indians scramble to trade in virtual currencies (VCs) such as bitcoins! In desperate times, there is a tendency to seek desperate remedies and the latest bonkers is for bitcoins whether such people are from the tinsel world or ordinary middle-class people who plump for cryptocurrencies of various hues, particularly bitcoins.

The tragedy of farmers and peasants has become so grave during the Modi government that even the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has to finally raise the issue with the BJP leadership. At a recent meeting of senior RSS leaders, attended by BJP president Amit Shah, it virtually pulled up the leadership and expressed apprehensions that the issues of economic distress and unemployment in the farm sector could damage the electoral prospect of the party in the 2019 general election.

Ever since the degeneration of politics into a virtual cesspool, as Amitabh Bachchan called the profession after a brief period of entry and exit, Indians in general have been fascinated by the idea of a knight in shining armour wielding a broom to clean the Augean stables.

The output and quality of exports from India has decreased in the first five months of the GST regime in the country, says the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce after assessing its impact on exports.

A Tamil nationalist party called Naam Tamihzar has told Tamil superstar Rajinikanth – in whom “politics has entered” – to storm no Tamil bastion because he is not Tamizh. Well, to them should be asked the question, who was MGR and where from came Jayalalithaa?

Tamil super star Rajinikanth’s punch line in his super hit film Kabaali is “Naan Vandthttenu chollu (Tell them I have come.)” On Sunday, wearing a spotless white kurta and pants, Rajinikant announced to his millions of fans: “My entry into politics is certain”, thus ending the two-decade-long suspense.