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As world leaders gathered for this year’s COP27 climate summit in Egypt, the sister of jailed British-Egyptian activist AlaaAbd el-Fattah addressed the following words to the international media:

The right to privacy in the time of the internet boom is difficult to enforce. But governments around the world are working to reverse this and restore control in the hands of users. Between tech companies and governments, there is a rush to take control of the huge amount of data being generated. It’s said that data is the new gold, the new oil. It is the foundation of a new economy. Given this, the new data protection bill being considered by the Indian government is attracting a great deal of attention from the relevant circles.

Spectre of the BJP losing power in Gujarat has made Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the strongman of Indian politics uneasy. Little doubt this baffling transformation was conjured by the success of Bharat Jodo Yatra. Only a couple of days back he was looking at Rahul’s Yatra sitting on the side line, but from Monday he has adopted an aggressive posture. But the most interesting feature of his bellicose is his playing the victim card. .The big response by people at Rahul’s first campaign meeting in the state on Moday has unnerved the state BJP leadership.

It’s confirmed. Elections, combined with the politics swirling around them, brings the worst out of politicians, and political parties. Witness what has been happening in Gujarat, and in Delhi with the MCD elections, which has a 15 year anti-incumbency pulling back on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s chances of making it fourth time in a row, and it gets clear that politicians will scrape the pits to show rivals in bad light.

Union Government has begun budget exercise for the year 2023-24 in the right earnest with narrowed options and very high stakes for the ruling establishment led by PM Narendra Modi since it would be the last full budget before the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

Despite trying hard for decades, the BJP has little or no presence in the southern states except ruling Karnataka. The South contributes 129 seats, of which the BJP has only 29. Notably, political churning is happening in Tamil Nadu, where BJP is all set to capture the space riding piggyback on its ally AIADMK.

New Delhi: The second National Summit on Leadership in Positivity was held on 18 th of November 2022 at Civil Services Officers Institute, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. It was organized by Dr. Dyaneshwar Mulay, Personal Account of Member NHRC & former Secretary- Ministry of External Affairs.

New Delhi: Devika Ghorpade and Preeti Dahiya chalked out impressive victories to enter the quarter-finals while three other Indians suffered defeats in the Last-16 stage of the Youth World Boxing Championships in La Nucia, Spain on Monday.

Time was when politics in West Bengal was studded by luminaries Kiran Shankar Roy and Hiren Mukherjee known for their erudition and courtesy towards their political opponents who were never considered to be enemies. The tradition eroded over the years as politeness took a back seat and bitter words were exchanged in the political arena.

Former US Vice President Mike Pence is back, armed with a memoir with which he wills to conquer the future—Pence wants to be the spotlight in 2024 even as Donald Trump announced he’s gonna give himself another chance in the glare of the White House. Asked what he thought of that, Pence said there are “alternative choices” to Trump who had always kept Pence in the shadows of his own shadow! 'Vice President’ Mike Pence and ‘President’ Donald Trump fell out on January 6, 2020, when the so-called Capitol Hill insurrection upended Trump, and Pence let it be known that two can play the game, one ‘Judas’, and the other Mike Pence!