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The Office of RG finally got the message and pulled out Mani Shankar Aiyer’s thick file and suspended him from the primary membership of the Congress for his Neech lexicon, and for sleeping with the very enemy he called Neech!

Doctor patient relationship is a pious one, based on trust and faith. That is why a patient feels better going to a certain doctor; but the same medicines given by another doctor may not lead to the same improvement. In routine cases, the patients wait for long without complaining so that they can meet the doctor they trust. This relationship is important because it is a question of one's own body or of kiths and kin with whom he is emotionally attached. Any untoward happening during the course of treatment is not acceptable. But if the existing relationship has been on strong bonds, there is a possibility of rapprochement. It is not a small thing that even today patients treat the doctor next to god. That is a result of faith bestowed upon by the patient on the doctor, who is seen not only as a healer of one's medical sufferings but also a counselor on personal and family matters. The godly image of the doctor is developed in the eyes of the patient because of the conviction that the doctor would always be ethical and his or her conduct would based on moral principles.

The mid-year monetary policy review from RBI on December 6 reflects worrisome trends with surging inflation on the back of both domestic and international price movements, especially oil, and an widening fiscal slippage in the first eight months of fiscal 2018.

NEW DELHI: The Union of India has appointed Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) as guaranteeing association for the operation of Transports Internationaux Routiers (TIR) system in the country to facilitate free movement of goods under customs control across international border, without any cross border check.

On 10th December 2017, Oslo the, capital of Norway will be filled with exciting events when the Nobel Peace Prize for this year will be bestowed upon the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). This campaign has 468 partners who have been consistently working since long for a nuclear weapon free world. ICAN was officially launched in Vienna, Austria in April 2007 during the Non-Proliferation Treaty preparatory committee meeting. It was inspired by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which had played a major role in the negotiation of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, also known as the Ottawa treaty.

Sometimes inaction is as important as action. The Reserve bank of India on December 6 kept its basic policy rate – called the repo rate – unchanged at 6 per cent. Industry and business felt disappointed, saying that the RBI could have cut its repo rate and thus encouraged fresh investment.

United States President Donald Trump has finally come out in true colours by declaring on Wednesday that US Government is giving official recognition to the holy city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and accordingly, the embassy will be shifted there from Tel Aviv. This decision of Trump virtually negates the tortuous efforts of his predecessor Barack Obama and even the Republican President George Bush in facilitating the process of dialogue in the last two decades in reaching at a peaceful solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict and the future status of Jerusalem.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It’s a classic instance of disaster mismanagement.

No wonder, The Pinarayi Vijayan Government’s inadequate response to the Ockhi cyclone, which struck several districts in Kerala and took a heavy toll of human lives, incurred the wrath of the people.

It is been a year since Jayalalithaa passed away and the AIADMK splintered. Her aide Sasikala in in jail and O Panneerselvam, her choice to fill in as chief minister the two times she went to jail, got the upper hand, though he could not take it to the logical conclusion as that honour went E Palaniswami’s way.

Crime against women is not a new phenomenon in Independent India. It happened in the sixties and seventies. But of late the dynamics of this crime has seen much distortion. In those years violence against women had a political tenor and it was resorted to as a feudal tool to silence the dissenting voices of the dalits and harijans, which were primarily related to the agricultural scene. In urban areas the violence was too pronounced. It was the most effective weapon in the hands of the feudal lords and rich people to assert their rights gratify their feudal ego and tame the assertive subjects.