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Protest on the soccer pitch has proven to be a mixed blessing for World Cup host Qatar, exposing double standards in the Gulf state’s position as well as that of its critics.

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, suffered hacking of its servers on November 23. Over 50 of these servers that store patient data and run hospital management software were out of order. It resulted in a complete shutdown of computers at this premier hospital that receives on an average 12,000 new patients every day. After the initial efforts to bring the systems back to work failed, the hospital management deployed additional staff and tried to run the routine healthcare services manually. From new patient registrations to managing the labs, everything was being done manually. On November 30, the hospital management informed in a statement that the servers have been restored but they are being sanitized and the hospital functions are still being managed manually.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has the opportunity of his lifetime to make a global difference to India’s status on the world stage when India assumes the G20 presidency on December 1 for a period of one year. The Prime Minister himself has called it a “huge opportunity” for India in his November 27 edition of ‘Mann Ki Baat’. Modi, who is used to big pronouncements, kept it simple while stressing that India must utilize the opportunity to focus on “global good”.

Deductive logic has gone for a toss when it comes to forecasting international oil price behaviour. Defying all expectations of a spike, crude prices have hovered just about the same level as last year this time, which means the commodity is trading in the $70s range. This is quite a turnaround, given that oil has been steadily climbing, aided by a 2 million barrel per day output cut announced by OPEC+ cartel.

Indian Navy is gaining from strength to strength. The recent incident was the induction of Y12705 ship and the bilateral naval exercise ‘Naseem Al Bahr’ (Sea Breeze) with the Royal Navy of Oman.

New Delhi: Seven Indians including top seed Unnati Hooda opened their campaign with contrasting victories at the Badminton Asia Junior Championships, in Nonthaburi, Thailand on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Indian Navy has taken up the work of creating awareness among the people of northeast India about Defence Forces, from where there are considerable recruits in the military. The plan is also to promote tourism, sports and adventure activities in the region.

The struggling leftwing government in Venezuela led by President Nicholas Maduro scored a major political victory on November 26 when the government leaders reached a social agreement in Mexico city with the rightwing opposition of the country’s national assembly to create a fund managed by the United Nations to finance health, food and education programmes for the poor.

Indian Navy has become active in the Indo-Pacific Region following government’s focus in the region with emphasis on its Act East Policy. It convened a three-day Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue 2022 (IPRD 2022) in New Delhi from November 23, this year, in which there were participants from stakeholders in the region. It dealt with all aspects of the Blue Economy.

‘Gaslighting’ is associated with ‘disorientation’. It is also closely related to “fake news”, and conspiracy theories. It is “the act or practice of grossly misleading someone or a group of people for one’s own advantage.” Like filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri, who stands accused of gaslighting Indians into believing that there was a Kashmir Pandit “genocide”, and exodus from the Valley!