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Governors in Opposition-ruled states are becoming tools for the ruling party at the Centre to advance its political agenda and to create difficulties for the concerned state government for implementing its welfare programmes and development schemes.

Our democracy has lost each of its basics. From the recent crisis that proved to be an assault on not only federalism, but also its most relevant constitutional principles. The Supreme Court judgment on the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution and the dismantling of the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories was itself a case of a constitutional court condoning the misuse of powers by the executive. Four years after the event, the three concurrent judgments of the five-judge Constitution bench, headed by the Chief Justice of India, have larger and long-lasting implications that strike at the roots of federalism and states’ rights.

No sooner than the Opposition found itself an opening, and the moral high-ground, after the suspension of 143 MPs of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, and on the threshold of gaining voter-sympathy, it found itself down by a self-goal. This by a three-time Trinamool Congress MP from Serampore, who also happens to be the Chief Whip of the Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party in the Lok Sabha.

When Myanmar's military ousted the elected government in February 2021, China downplayed it as a "significant cabinet reshuffle." Despite the ensuing civil war, causing numerous casualties and displacements with allegations of crimes against humanity by the military, China remained supportive of the generals. China criticized Western sanctions on Myanmar's military, labelling them as "worsening tensions." Despite being Myanmar's main trading partner and supplying the junta with over $250 million in arms, China seemed to reassess its stance on its conflict-affected neighbour in late October.

AAP Convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s assertion in the December 19 INDIA Block Meet in Delhi about the need of either a Convener or PM face, and his impromptu support for TMC chief Mamata Banerjee’s proposal to make Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge’s name as Prime Minister face for the opposition alliance is significant, since it reflects the willingness of Kejriwal to go ahead with the alliance in right earnest.

If you have a political bent opposed to the Prime Minister you might just as well sniff a sort of complicity between the Narendra Modi government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The Narendra Modi Government’s decision to freeze the accounts of the news portal NewsClick through the actions of the Income Tax Department is nothing but the continuation of the organized attack by the central agencies on this leading news portal to make it dysfunctional before the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.The latest IT action has led to the blocking of the payments made by the NC leading to acute embarrassment to this organization which is known for its prompt payments to its consultants and contributors.

There is political turmoil in India and American politics is coming to a boil. The fate of democracy, yeah? Should it bother us, common Indians, what happens in the USA? The excitement and the daily rumblings. If in India, it is theatrics on the steps of Parliament, in the United States, it is Donald Trump whose Tele-series ‘The Apprentice’, with its tag-line ‘You’re Fired’, appears to be still running and the latest episode has Trump fired from the Colorado ballot by the Supreme Court of Colorado courtesy “insurrection” charge against him.

A high-flyer at the centre of efforts to negotiate temporary pauses and Israeli-Palestinian prisoner swaps, Qatar is catching flack for its relationship with Hamas that has enabled its mediation endeavour. Even so, the flack, for now, has been drowned out by the Gulf state’s indispensability, established with the tacit endorsement of the United States and Israel.

In early 1980s, a sixth semester mechanical engineering student at the Thangal Kunju Musaliar College of Engineering in Kerala’s Kollam district, made an unusual request to his Head of Department, F.V. Albin. He wanted the department to introduce an elective in population engineering. Such a course was then rare, if not non-existent, in the state and nobody in Albin’s department had the expertise to teach it.