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Two recent interim orders of the Supreme Court have pushed the lives of people living with rare diseases to the edge. These two orders were passed in two separate special leave petitions (‘SLP’) filed by the Union challenging the High Court orders of Delhi and Kerala which advanced access to treatment for rare diseases. These interim orders virtually blocked any possibility of affordable treatment to many people living with rare disease (‘PLRD’) who need treatments that are available at a high cost such as Spinal Muscular Atrophy (‘SMA’), Cystic fibrosis (‘CF’), Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (‘DMD’) etc.

WASHINGTON D.C: The Trump administration said Monday, in defiance of a 9-0 Supreme Court order, that it is not required to return a U.S. resident it illegally sent to a Salvadoran concentration camp last month.

Though there is a 90 day pause in Trump’s latest unilateral imposition of reciprocal tariffs on most of the countries, the trade war between the USA and China, the two largest economies of the world is in full steam imparting tremors in global trade and economy. Close advisers of Trump were expecting a response from the Chinese President Xi Jinping in the form of a zoom call to Trump last weekend but that did not happen, instead Xi retaliated by imposing additional tariffs on U.S. goods as tit for tat.

With quota within quota notification for Scheduled Caste (SC) reservation in Telangana, a new phase of Dalit politics in India has just begun. The gazette notification has made Telangana, the first State in India to implement sub-categorization of Scheduled Caste reservation which coincided with Dr B R Ambedkar’s 135th birth anniversary.

NEW YORK: President Donald Trump needs to de-escalate his trade war with China ASAP, US economists feel, as it has reached a point where it could hurt each other's economy so very badly, that recovering lost ground is going to be unreachable, because both economies are intricately intertwined.

Sermons like “One shouldn’t play games with religion. Dharma means devotion, affection, humanity, peace, amity, culture, harmony, and unity” are taught to the school children. It is just reverse in the real life. In realpolitik these amiable words have no relevance. These were the words articulated by West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee just after the Murshidabad communal violence that shook the confidence and conscience of the people of Bengal last week.

The President Donald Trump is going after Harvard University with a vengeance after Harvard chose to reject Trump's "reforms". In the process, Harvard is losing loads of dollars but is also drawing admiration and encouragement from Trump's bete noire, former President Barack Hussein Obama. Trump and Obama are always daggers drawn and share a mutual dislike spanning several presidential terms. It started with Trump questioning Obama's 'birth' in Obama's first term, also the legitimacy of his presidency, and Obama cracking jokes at Trump at a White House dinner.

WASHINGTON: Socialist senator Bernie Sanders is out on the stump again, helping lead, in a big way, the opposition to Donald Trump where other Democratic Party lawmakers have not. And people—tens of thousands of them coast to coast—are responding.

Today, as we remember Babasaheb Ambedkar on his 135th birth anniversary, there is a certain crisis of identity that the Indian judiciary seems to be confronting. On this exact day, a month ago, members of the fire department allegedly discovered piles of burnt currency in the residence of a Delhi High Court judge. Since then, the executive has prominently reframed a conversation on judicial accountability towards that of judicial appointments.

It is good to know that the government is already cautious about the possible increase in Chinese export trade and investment to India to exploit both the local market as well as to push exports to the USA taking advantage of the massive US import tariff difference between India and China. India needs to be cautious about China’s likely general merchandise export push, including automobiles, to the country to partly offset its anticipated export loss to the United States. The total US import tariff on goods from China now stands at 145 percent. President Trump had made a general announcement of 10 percent import tariff for all countries, and even higher tariffs for 60 trading partners having high trade imbalance with the US.