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Among the bills taken up for discussion during the ongoing winter session of parliament, the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, 2019, is making some noises in relevant quarters. After two years of deliberations, the JPC report on PDP Bill was tabled in both houses of parliament on December 16. The JPC recommendations on the PDP Bill include 3 important and potentially controversial elements.

Indians are naive and gullible to such an extent that they are carried away even by microscopic lies of the politicians. It is an open secret that Narendra Modi and BJP diligently follow the diktats of the RSS. The policies and programmes of the Modi government are framed and decided by the Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat. This has been made explicitly clear by none else but by Modi himself when he did not inform about his decision to withdraw the farm bills even to his cabinet colleagues and BJP. Only one person knew about it and he was Bhagwat.

Modi, Yogi and Akki! The last is Akhilesh Yadav— the ‘lal topi’ up against the ‘kamal ka phool’. The Samajwadi Party chief doesn’t ordinarily spill wisdom. But when he does, he does not do it for effect—he does it for keeps! Mulayam Singh Yadav’s son is nobody’s fool. On the contrary, he trades gem for gem, coining his own wordage, taking a leaf out of Modi’s book, and Modi is the reigning wordsmith in the electoral roulette.

As expected, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) swept the 2021 Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), the results of which were available on Tuesday afternoon. Trinamool decisively won over 90 per cent of the 144 wards. The margins separating the TMC victors from their nearest opposition challengers from the BJP, Congress and the Left parties ranged from 4000 to over 10,000 in most seats.

The contour of politics in Jammu & Kashmir is set to change again the next year 2022. The J&K Delimitation Commission has set December 31 as the last day for submitting objections on its proposal, and as per the brief the Commission is expected to provide its final recommendation by April 2022. If the promised restoration of statehood for this newly formed Union Territory comes through, which is most likely in the backdrop of the progress on delimitation exercise, Jammu & Kashmir will undergo a new era of politics.

It has been two years since Covid-19 emerged in China and spread worldwide. Since then, the globe has faced upheaval. As we enter 2022, what does the crystal ball say about the covid? Will the New Year see the end of the pandemic, or will it continue through the year? The short answer is the COVID-19 pandemic is not over yet and is likely to continue through 2022. With unpredictable outbreaks still occurring worldwide, it is difficult to predict the end of the pandemic.

Throughout its history, India has accepted refugees, including Jews escaping persecution, Sri Lankan Tamils, Tibetans, and Afghans, all escaping violence. However, India’s treatment of the Rohingya has been conspicuously different. The country is now home to approximately 40,000 Rohingya, of whom only around 16,500 have been registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

New Delhi: Having topped the round robin league, defending champion India start overwhelming favourite as they take on Asian Games Champions Japan in the semifinal of the Hero Asian Hockey Champions Trophy to be played at the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium in Dhaka on Tuesday.

Many participants among 200-plus at the very recently held international conference on innovation in the social sciences and humanity, hosted by Ton DucThang University, Ho-chi Minh City were epistemologically surprised to learn that Karl Marx deeply studied the concept of ‘nothingness’ of Gautama Buddha in a paper and in another that contemporary transnational capital aims at full spectrum which covers a vast panorama including multilateral agencies mediating global and local governance. Further, the investment of charity capital in the contemporary business of social work is as wide as dominance over the entire political economy of our planet as envisaged by Marx but couldn’t reach out to them in his life time. Both the papers were authored by Kolkata-based Marx scholar and polymath Pradip Baksi.

There is little to be excited about the government’s latest announcement of a comprehensive strategy to put India firmly on the world map of semiconductor manufacturers at a time when the global industry is silently cerebrating its diamond jubilee of existence. The world’s first semiconductor maker, Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, was founded in Santa Clara, California, in 1957. Since then nearly 50 large semiconductor firms have come up in over a dozen countries. Last week, the Narendra Modi government finally unfolded a US$10-billion (Rs.760 million) package to boost semiconductor and display manufacturing.