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Four years after Article 370 was de-operationalised, the Supreme Court has held the Presidential Orders [Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir), Order 2019 or CO 272 and Declaration Under Article 370(3) of the Constitution or CO 273] and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 constitutionally valid. However, the rationale used was stretched and did little to enhance confidence in the judicial process. Nor did the judgment do much to restore the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), which itself would not be anything more than a consolation for the people of the State.

“Make Mistakes of ambition, and not mistakes of sloth” wrote Niccolo Machiavelli. Ajit Pawar follows the maxim to the hilt.

The recent security breach in Parliament has severe political, electoral, legislative, and security implications. The resultant unprecedented suspension of 146 MPs has now united the Opposition coalition, the INDI-Alliance.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s psycho-political warfare for Electoral Battle 2024 began on December 23, the concluding day of the BJP’s two-day meet. He asked party leaders to increase vote share by 10 percent compared to the 2019 elections. Union Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah said the BJP’s performance should leave the Opposition “stunned” with an “unprecedented majority”.

India is forever fighting to protect a fair amount of its production of fruits and vegetables from perishing. Containing wastage, from production centres to final consumers, has concentrated on handling logistics better. Now, in an attempt to further cut the loss, the Centre has inducted a technology tool developed by e-commerce major Amazon, which, aided by wi-fi-enabled IoT (internet of things) cameras, identifies inherent defects in fresh produce.

No matter how loud the cash counters at the box office jingle, Shahrukh Khan starrer ‘Dunki’ is not a film to write home about. It is themed on the issue of illegal migration and "dunki maarna", the Hindi colloquialism for illegal migration. Also, the movie comes even as more and more Indians are joining the “caravans” passing through Mexico towards the United States border and EU countries try to stem the intrusion of asylum-seekers into their borders.

After a record delay of almost a fortnight Madhya Pradesh will have a new ministry headed by Dr. Mohan Yadav. The ministry was given final touches by the party high command. Twenty eight Ministers took oath on Monday. Three including the Chief Minister took oath earlier. Thus the total strength of the ministry is now 31. The Chief Minister did a balancing act of caste and region.

LUCKNOW: Congress Party and RLD have launched their separate yatras in Uttar Pradesh to be in a position to strike a hard bargain on seat-sharing with the Samajwadi Party. This, because the Samajwadi Party insists it has the sole privilege to apportion seats to smaller parties and those which have lost their standings, real or imaginary, with the electorate, like the Congress, for instance.

Even as the civil war rages on in Myanmar, there is fresh concernamong GOI circles regarding a somewhat disturbing report in the Sri Lankan media, stating that some Indians were being “held” as prisoners in what have been described as “terror camps” in the strife-torn country.

Many unsavoury incidents are taking place. The list is quite long. What stands out is that every incident owes its birth to the RSS move to communalise and polarise the democratic structure and its functioning and weaponise the administrative institutions and apparatuses. Four days back the Army had picked up 15 civilians from Topa Peer, a village in Kashmir, for questioning and the bodies of three of them, bearing injury marks, were found near an encounter site. The remaining 12 persons have been admitted to different hospitals in critical conditions.