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The Telecommunications Act, 2023, enacted by the Parliament without public scrutiny, debates and discussions amidst suspension of about 150 Members of Parliament, is anti-people, undemocratic and unconstitutional. It assaults the Constitution in so many ways. It attacks fundamental rights of the people in terms of their right to privacy, freedom of expression and press freedom.by the British and early independent India by subsuming and repealing them. The three old laws repealed are, the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, the Wireless Telegraph Act, 1933, and the Telegraph Wires (Unlawful Possession) Act, 1950. The new telecommunications law has been enforced with effect from June 26, 2024.

The US Ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti, may have exceeded his brief by issuing a warning to India that the country can’t take its improved relationship with the United States for granted in the context of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, last week. The ambassador, as also the US state department, was clearly upset with Modi-Putin bonhomie during the Indian prime minister’s two-day visit in Moscow. Modi has described Russia as India’s all-weather friend. Modi had embraced Putin for steering India-Russia friendship to greater heights in the last 20 years. The Indian PM was conferred the highest Russian civilian award, Order of St Andrew the Apostle, during his visit. The award was announced five years ago for Modi’s contribution to fostering bilateral ties between the two countries. Putin had reaffirmed commitment to the resilient Russia-India relationship against the backdrop of a challenging and uncertain geopolitical situation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claims made on Saturday, July 13 in Mumbai that around 8 crore new jobs have been created in the country in the last 3-4 years, that these figures have silenced those who spread false narrative about rising unemployment, and that the narrators of rising unemployment opposed investment, infrastructure, and the country’s development are now being exposed, are totally false.

The recent results of by-elections for 13 seats in seven states are essential for understanding what people think of the major political parties. More than a month after the 2024 elections, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a third term, the INDIA bloc's significant victory in securing ten of the 13 seats has shifted the country's politics. This positive result for the INDIA bloc could weaken the ruling coalition's power in the coming battles.

The narrow escape of the Republican candidate Donald Trump from the gunshot at the campaign meeting in Pennsylvania on Saturday has imparted a more confrontationist dimension to the Presidential elections scheduled on November 5. The shooting incident just on the eve of the four day Republican convention beginning on July15 has given further ammunition to aggressive Trump to galvanise his supporters against the Democratic nominee President Joe Biden.

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's recent visit to China has sparked discussions about potential implications for regional dynamics, particularly in relation to India. Sheikh Hasina, who has visited India twice this year, had not travelled to China in five years prior to this recent trip from July 8 to 10.

The stage is decked for a massive political fight. NGO All India Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has taken upon itself the task of using everything in its quiver to compel the Supreme Court to overturn its verdict on maintenance to divorced Muslim women. The board met on Sunday and ruled that the top court had no business interfering in marriages and divorces of Muslim men and women.

Badal Sircar, the Bengali playwright and director who revolutionised the Indian theatre movement in the late 20th century stepped on to 100 years on Monday July 15.. Hr was born in Calcutta in 1925 and in his 86 years of active life as a pioneer in the theatre movement in Bengal, he introduced a new stream of theatre making called ‘ Third Theatre’ which influenced a number of young theatre people from 1960s to the early 21st century..He passed away in Kolkata on May 13, 2011.

The first session of the 18th Lok Sabha has just concluded where an unprecedented level of acrimony was witnessed. Since this session was held immediately after the general elections, the mood during the electioneering, it appears, was carried into the house as was reflected in the speeches made from both sides. Few speakers referred to the issues, included or not included in President’s address. Fuel was added to the fire by the tone and tenor of the speech made by leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha.

BJP leader Narendra Modi in his first term as NDA Prime Minister of India shouldn’t have forgotten how to kowtow, and kowtow to whom? Why he went to Russia before kowtowing to the United States is a mistake. Why he went and hugged Russian President Vladimir Putin is a bigger mistake. Modi’s hugging habit is working against India's interests. Also, Modi might have forgotten his Chanakya, but the Americans have their Sun Tzu correct: An enemy’s friend is an enemy.