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The junior doctors’ movement in West Bengal partially ended on its 41st day on September 20 Friday. The striking doctors joined their duties on September 21 in emergency services only in the state government run medical colleges and hospitals still keeping the OPD work and surgical operations out of their duty profile. The outcome of the protracted negotiations on the five point agenda submitted by the Junior Doctors Front, to the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee have mostly been positive but the doctors body has indicated full joining only after the directives by the state health department are implemented on ground. It is apparent that the agitating doctors are waiting for the next hearing in the Supreme Court on the RG Kar medico’s rape murder issue scheduled on September 27.

The Supreme Court of India is finds itself at the threshold of a unique opportunity to create history when a bench headed by chief justice D Y Chandrachud takes up next month a clutch of petitions seeking a review of the 2022 verdict concerning the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Seldom does the apex court overturn a decision during a review, but the PMLA review appears to be pregnant with new possibilities.

What makes the upcoming assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir different from previous ones is the altered constitutional framework. The reorganization post the scrapping of Article 370 brought Jammu and Kashmir under full purview of the constitution. Thus, the new government will have to operate without the autonomy that the law once provided.

The interim Government of Bangladesh headed by Dr. Muhammad Yunus is doing all the preparatory work for officially demanding the extradition from India of the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as early as possible. Indications suggest that Dr. Yunus may mention of this demand at his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 27. Dr. Yunus will be in USA from September 24 to 27 while the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in USA from September 21 to 23. So there is no possibility of any bilateral meeting between PM Modi and Dr. Yunus in New York this time.

Almost all political parties in the fray in Haryana Vidhan Sabha Election scheduled for October 5 have focused on women, farmers, and unemployed, which is nothing but the revelation of their assessments that they may affect the poll outcome. Political parties have also played OBC and Dalit cards to woo them.

Former YSRCP Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy left a 'ladoo' for TDP Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and now there's 'big bawal' in Andhra Pradesh with epicentre at the temple town of Tirupati, where Lord Venkateswara has been cynosure for forever. The 'ladoo' is prasadam, offerings to God, which is where the problem starts and ends for Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is fighting charges of desecrating the prasadam with beef tallow, fish oil and lard.

Unaware of the reasons of various happenings around, the ancient man attributed celestial causes to various natural events like rain, fire, earthquake etc. Thus they thought diseases to be a result of anger displayed by some super natural divine power. The remedy too was primitive and based on obeisance to please that power. With the passage of time the human race tried to find the causes responsible for poor health in surroundings and thus they searched for remedy also in nature.

What is happening to Indian foreign policy during the third term of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi? Is India a vassal state to the United States in 2024 disconnecting all its political links with the country’s BRICS partners? On September 18, a day after our PM’s 74th birthday and completion of 100 days of the third term Prime Minister, India abstained in the UN General Assembly on a resolution demanding that Israel end its unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territory without delay within 12 months.

September 19 is a big day for financial markets worldwide. The US Federal Reserve has at long last acted how the markets expected it to act. It cut interest rates. This is having global impact and already the stock markets are adjusting, as we have seen in the sharp climb of the Indian market. This is the first rate cut from the US central bank since March 2020.

The NDA government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed its first 100 days on September 17 with Modi as third term Prime Minister. How did he fare was the topic of the day, which was also his birthday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned 74 on Tuesday and the celebrations were rather muted. The “half-victory” in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections remains smug in the mind to rankle and give pause.