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Article 222(1) of the Constitution of India provides that “the President may, after consultation with the Chief Justice of India, transfer a Judge from one High Court to any other High Court.” This power was very rarely used until 1976. According to data provided in the Supreme Court’s 1977 judgment in Union of India vs. Sankalchand Himmatlal Sheth, only 25 High Court judges were transferred in the first 26 years after the Constitution came in place. The power was then in the hands of the Union Government and by convention (not law), all these transfers were made with the consent of the concerned judges.

BHOPAL: While Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shiv Raj Singh Chouhan is making all out efforts to expand the party's base by showering benefits on tribals, a major rift has been caused in the party with veteran party leader Uma Bharti publicly questioning the decision of withdrawal of farm laws by the Prime Minister. "I am stunned and hurt," tweeted Uma Bharti while commenting on the withdrawal of farm laws. Bharti also said that it meant BJP workers have failed to explain the laws. While the state BJP remained tightlipped, Madhya Pradesh Congress thanked her for 'exposing BJP's weaknesses'.

AIMIM head Asaduddin Owaisi is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s true friend, the kind who swears by "a friend in need is friend indeed." And these days aren’t easy for the BJP. There are elections in five states. The party’s iconic leader Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lost trust with the hoi polloi even as farmers say they can’t believe he will keep his word. When he was Chief Minister of Gujarat, he had headed a panel that promised to fix the MSP but when it came time to deliver, Modi had chosen to ditch rather than to pitch!

The six-month accountability report presented just a week ahead of the special session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) from November 29 to December 1, only the second in the history of the World Health Organisation (WHO), has presented clear evidence of two most important issues – first, the current system is incapable of protecting us from the next pandemic, which could happen anytime from now, and the second is that the world needs to prepare for the next global health threat.

With only less than three months left for the assembly elections to the five states in February/March 2022, full scale preparations at the level of BJP's central leadership as also state leaders to look for maximum allies to take on the Congress and the other parties like Samajwadi Party and the AamAadmi Party in the assembly elections to Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur. As of now, BJP is far advanced as against the other contenders in campaigning and resource mobilisation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not known for stooping. However, political compulsions made him roll back the three contentious farm laws last week. He has realized that whenever political opposition and mass movements come together, it impacts politics. As a shrewd politician, he chose to retreat. In his national television address on Friday he apologized, “Today, I beg the forgiveness of my countrymen and say with a pure heart and honest mind that perhaps there was some shortcoming.”

New Delhi: The Badminton Association of India (BAI) on Monday announced that all the age category domestic tournaments to be played till March 2022 will be considered as the selection event for trials.

Jose Antonio Kast, candidate of the far right received nearly 27.94 per cent of the votes as against the Left nominee Gabriel Boric’s 25.75 per cent in the first round of Presidential elections in Chile held on November 21. Since no candidate got majority of the votes, as per the constitution, runoff will be held on December 19.The candidate with the highest number of votes will then be elected.

Within a few days of unilateral announcement of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to repeal the three controversial farm laws, the whole range of issues relating to farms and farmers have become complicated. The reasons on the surface is unilateralism of Modi and hardening stance of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) but the deep underneath there are several long unsolved issues, the solution of which requires a new approach to farm and farmers.

By making Xi Jinping a life-long leader of the China’s Communist Party (CPC) and president of the People’s Republic of China, the party not only endorsed Xi’s ambitious plan to make China the world’s No.1 military and economic power by 2049, far surpassing the United States of America, but also ensured that the programme does not get disturbed by the earlier practice of 10-yearly leadership change. No CPC leader has been as strong as Xi since Mao Zedong, the founder of the communist rule in China in 1949. Barring most unlikely circumstances, 2049 will also be the centenary year of the communist rule in China. The latest military-economic ambition of China is fully attainable if one considers China’s phenomenal growth under the communist regime in the last 71 years. The country’s GDP rose from near the global bottom-end in 1949 to the world’s second largest at over US$13.4 trillion, reports the World Population Review (WPR) 2021. The comparable US economy was worth $20.49 trillion.