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“Freedom is in Peril, Defend it with All Your Might.” The words were carried on its masthead by the English daily National Herald (since defunct) established on September 9, 1938 in Lucknow by Jawahar Lal Nehru, who was also the paper’s first Editor. Today’s Punjab needs some rephrasing of the words: “Democracy and Constitutional Institutions in Punjab are in Peril, the People should Defend them with All Their Might”.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A controversy is raging in the state on the report of the Madhav Gadgil committee on protection to the Western Ghats.

Abhijit Mukherjee, son of President Pranab Mukherjee and Congress MP from his father’s former Lok Sabha constituency Jangipur, did not even think that he would be the butt of India’s boom brigade when he was commenting derisively on the women demonstrators in Delhi. The utter inability to sense the impact of a statement shows Abhijit’s lack of maturity in communication.

With her known penchant for shooting herself in the foot, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee certainly needs no enemies.

The global economy is entering 2013 with unabated risks to sustained recovery and financial stability in major advanced economies, mainly euro-zone and USA, and this has already resulted in a sharp slowdown in growth of emerging market and other developing countries. World output weakened further in 2012 to 2.2 per cent while trade in goods and services dipped to 3.3 per cent, according to latest UN estimates.

How the year 2013 will be and what it portends? Preceding the year 2014, the year of general election, next year portends to be eventful and will draw the battle lines for the Lok Sabha poll.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was an organisational restructuring that was expected to pep up the Congress in the state. But considering the chorus of criticism that has greeted the exercise, the revamp won’t serve the intended purpose. If anything, the reorganisation, which has taken over two years to complete, could add further fuel to the factional fires.

KOLKATA: The Vision Statement adopted at the just-concluded ASEAN-India Summit held in New Delhi has cheered the people of Northeast India by holding out hopes of increased trade between North East Region (NER) and the member countries of the ASEAN.