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Some 70-odd crore-strong Indian male population will be called upon to come out of their obsession with masculinity as the draft Digital Data Protection Bill, 2022, unveiled by Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw for public debate the other day, only identifies them in the feminine gender. Under the proposed law, everyone is a she and all that belongs to that person is ‘hers’.

Maharaja Harijai Singh of Jammu & Kashmir signed the Instrument of Accession on October 26, 1947. He was in a tough spot. The subcontinent has been divided on the basis of faith and his mind was not only the 80% Muslims in the state, but also 20% Hindus.

The main protagonist in the open and shut ‘Fridge Murder’ case, a la the ‘tandoor murder’ saga, Aftab Poonawala, is in safe hands. This, after a Delhi court warned the Delhi Police from using the third degree on Poonawala in their zeal to nail the self-confessed murderer of Shraddha Walkar, his live-in partner. Aftab had cut and stashed 35 pieces of Shraddha in a 300 litre fridge before the pieces were dropped at various spots of a wooded area in Delhi.

The National Investigating Agency (NIA) under Union Home Minister Amit Shah as Union Minister of Home Affairs has now gained enough notoriety in the public as violators of rule of law and even the order of the courts of justice. NIA’s attitude towards the human rights defenders have even been heavily censured by UN human rights body for victimisation of those who cooperate with their investigation. Now the Supreme Court of India has to warn the super power investigating agency for defying its orders.

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray refutation to Rahul Gandhi’s remark on Savarkar might have been driven by political compulsions, but it has provided with the much awaited opportunity to BJP to humiliate and slander him as the true inheritor of the legacy of Balasaheb Thackeray.

Perplexed with the report that India has further fallen in the Hunger Index to 107th position out of 121 countries, the government of India, instead of debating corrective measures is out to criticise the agencies Welthungerhilfe (WHH) or Concern Worldwide, who calculate this index every year. The government is challenging the methodology of calculating the hunger index. It is therefore important to know how this index has been calculated in the successive years and why the government is up in arms this time. Not only that the statement has come from ministry of Women and Child Development, there is a lobby systematically justifying the stand of the government and is trying to find faults with the methodology of calculating hunger index.

Chandigarh: Teenage amateur Avani Prashanth returned her third straight under par score at 2-under 70 and with a huge 13-shot lead over the field expectedly won the 15th and final leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the Chandigarh Golf Club on Friday.

New Delhi: Giving a power packed performance, promising pugilist Rhythm thrashed Latvia’s Miks Berzins. to move into the men’s +92kg quarter-finals while the four more Indians including youth Asian champion Vanshaj marched into the Last-16 stage on third day of the Youth Men’s and Women’s World Boxing Championships in La Nucia, Spain.

Digboi: Arjun Sharma of Greater Noida carded a steady two-under 70 to take the third-round lead at the IndianOil SERVO Masters 2022 being played at the Digboi Golf Links on Friday.

Employees of public sector banks and insurance companies have to resort to several strike actions in 2022 against the moves of the PM Modi led Union Government which included privatisation and outsourcing bids exposing the entire financial sector to further risks ultimately victimising the employees in so many ways. The November 19 all Indian bank strike is a case in point, and the adamant attitude adopted by the government and the managements is a clear indication of even more intensified struggle in the next year 2023.