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WASHINGTON DC: Will Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Republican president-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the giant Health and Human Services Department, be—in the words of the warning on cigarette packages—a hazard to your health? Off both his past stands against vaccines, against fluoridation of water, against the Food and Drug Administration, and more, the answer to that may well be “yes.”

Bitcoin has been rising over the past few weeks and it is currently trading at above $90,000. With the $92,000 level breached, Bitcoin seems headed for the $100K mark. Bitcoin has surged 36.33% in 1 month, over 20% in 7-day and 3.45% in 24 hours. In a year-long period, BTC has surged a whopping 147%. For the critics of Bitcoin, it's a challenging moment. However, this is historic for those who see BTC as the currency of the future. BTC is within striking distance of the $100K mark. The good news is that even other coins and tokens have seen a strong price rally.

Sri Lankan President Anura Dissanayake has led his leftist coalition of 21 parties National People’s Power (NPP) to power in the island nation with a massive victory in the elections to Parliament held on Sunday, November 14. With most of the ballots counted by Friday morning, the NPP was far ahead bagging 141 seats out of the total of 225 giving it a comfortable majority. The NPP got 62 per cent of the votes and was leading in all but one of the 22 electoral districts.

It’s a contradiction in terms. You are creating a new department or agency to study and carry out paring of the size of the government. That’s what the US president-elect, Donald Trump, is up to. And who is to co-lead it, none other than Elon Musk, the braze entrepreneur and richest man in the world. The other cheer leader for downsizing government is Vivek Ramaswamy.

Air pollution in the National Capital of India is neither a new phenomenon nor the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP). Every year at this season, air quality in Delhi turns severe, and in some places severe plus. A Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) is in place. Supreme Court of India intervenes, Parliament of India makes laws, so called all-powerful leaders lead the centre and in Delhi government. However, nothing works, year after year. City almost chokes these days. Residents awoke to dense smog with severe air pollution level, and from 8 AM on November 15, GRAP-3 measures are in place.

“Oh the games people play now/every night and every day now/Never meaning what they say, yeah/Never saying what they mean...” Politicians play games and grabbing power is the name of the game if elections don’t throw up a clear verdict. A BJP-Ajit Pawar government was formed in Maharashtra in 2019, with Devendra Fadnavis as Chief Minister and Ajit Pawar the uncrowned Deputy Chief Minister. It lasted 80 hours! The needle of suspicion fell on Sharad Pawar but he never broke his covenant with silence, till now.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The people of Kerala would find it difficult to digest it. But it is the grim, unalterable reality. The Union Government’s refusal to sanction any funds to cover the losses caused by the July 30 Wayanad landslide is the ultimate insult to the victims of the tragedy besides being a shocking display of political hostility to Kerala.

Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister of Home Amit Shah have extensively campaigned in Maharashtra on behalf of the ruling Mahayuti, and the Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and the Congress Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on behalf of the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) the electorate in the state are impressed lesser than the local issues that they have been facing in their day-to-day existence. Political scenario at the peak of electioneering has therefore become very tense with a prospect of closer contest than earlier expected in the poll scheduled for November 20.

A large number of critical appraisals and commentaries have been written on the occasion of the retirement of Chief Justice of India (CJI), D Y Chandrachud. This is but natural as Justice Chandrachud is considered to be one of the most consequential chief justices of the Supreme Court in recent years. Moreover, he had a two-year tenure, which is longer than any other chief justice in the past two decades.

NEW YORK: Nearly a decade has passed since Bernie Sanders announced his first presidential run and ignited a democratic socialist electoral wave that has given us Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), the Squad, and democratic socialist officials at every level of government.