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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.

The joint movement of the farmers has finally led to the announcement by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the withdrawal of the three farm laws which can be termed as the most significant political defeat of the PM in his tenure of last seven and half years.PM announced such a decision without taking any approval of his cabinet. It will be formally done only on Wednesday at the cabinet meeting.

The AFI Fest returned to Hollywood for live, in-person screenings and events, although there was also a virtual component for watching many of the feature, documentary, short, indie, studio, and foreign productions that Los Angeles’ largest annual film festival presented in 2021. Some of the screenings were accompanied by talent who introduced and/or spoke about their films when they were shown at the TCL Chinese Theatres.