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Prime Minister Narendra Modi corrects his mistake by just shedding his arrogance and announcing repeal of the three controversial farm laws he got passed in the Parliament of India in the midst of COVID-19 crisis when the whole country was struggling to save lives of the people. His government treated the situation as an opportunity to push ‘agriculture market reform’ in the country which was mischievously labeled as ‘agriculture reforms’, but the basic purpose of the laws was to bring corporate sector to farms, which triggered widespread stiff resistance of the farmers despite lockdowns and containment measures. Farmers rushed to New Delhi on November 26, 2020 to protest which marked the beginning of their agitation. Modi’s announcement of repeal has come just before the first anniversary of the historic farmers’ agitation in the country, which solves a problem that he had created himself.

New Delhi: The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India has congratulated the farmers and their organisations for their historic victory which they achieved through a prolonged and determined struggle supported by all sections of society.

New Delhi: Veteran sports commentator and football expert Novy Kapadia, is no more Kapadia, 68, died here on Thursday afternoon, after a prolonged illness aged 68.

Digboi, Assam: Chandigarh’s Yuvraj Sandhu fired four-under 68 to emerge second-round leader of the Rs. 60 lakh IndianOil SERVO Masters Golf at the Digboi Golf Links here on Thursday.

Hyderabad: Gaurika Bishnoi hit superb 3-under 68 to emerge joint leader with Jahanvi Bakshi who returned a successive card of 70, after two rounds in the 12th leg of the Hero WPGT at the Hyderabad Golf Club on Thursday.

Mark Zuckerberg wants us to believe he’s figured out how we’ll socialize in the future. On October 28, he outlined his vision for the metaverse, a virtual environment where we can hang out, shop, and work. Yet its realization depends on Facebook and various other companies jumping into the metaverse space to develop the technologies it will depend on, and requires the public to buy into a vision where we spend more time sitting at home with virtual reality headsets on instead of going out into the physical world.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Former Chief Minister of Kerala and senior Congress leader from the state Oommen Chandy’s much-hyped mission to Delhi has ended up in a fiasco.

The Union Ministry of Labour and Employment’s new push for finalizing draft rules for the four controversial labour codes has brought news concerns among workforce regarding their implementation in near future. It would make the worker’s protest even stronger than has been planned by the joint platform of the 10 central trade unions.

The year is almost at its end. Republic Day would bring back to us again the celebrations of democracy. As we revise our pledge on January 26 to abide by our Constitution, protect it and move ahead, the Government has been busy taking decisions and passing ordinances to subvert it. It has extended the tenure of the directors of the CBI and ED, and made it from two years to five years. With a nod from the President, the ordinances got clearance. The Parliament session is only few days away but the possibility of deterrents coming from the opposition was obviously not acceptable to the government, hence the hurry.

The McKinsey report on national wealth by end of 2020 released on Monday placing China as the largest economy surpassing the USA led me remember my visit to Shanghai in year 2000 when the entire global economy including China, was undergoing dot com bubble. I was covering an international conference on new technology organised by a leading American multinational which was having big business in China at that time.