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The battle lines for the assembly elections are drawn in the tiny state of Goa, which is going for polls early next year. The poll scene is likely to be crowded, with at least eight parties contesting. The ruling BJP and opposition Congress and some outside contenders like Trinamool Congress and Aam Admi Party are in the fray. This multi-cornered contest might result in fragmentation of the votes as no party would be in a position to get a majority.

New Delhi: Chief of Army Staff, General MM Naravane on Monday flagged off the Nazir Hoosein Memorial Drive on Monday from Greater Noida.

Only relation considered to be real is of mother and her child as child comes from her womb to provide evidence of reality. The evidence of father is based on assertion of the mother. Child develops in nine months to a fully grown form and emerges as mother pushes out the embryo. The ability acquired for DNA test can verify the claim and reject it but not detect who the real father is. There is old proverb that says the self mind only can tell evil and mother alone can confirm father.

Sporting a scraggly beard, Mudasir Ahmad Bhat has his eyes hooked to his mobile screen, trying to open a website. Suddenly the data services vanish, and he has to rush to a nearby locality to get his phone connected to the internet. Bhat, a student from Srinagar’s downtown area, says that the internet services in the area are rather lousy and many parts of the city have been witnessing data outages for the past two weeks. “The internet is being snapped frequently here. We are clueless about this new move”, said Bhat.

In Bangladesh, a section of beleaguered Hindus in Comilla, Chattogram and other districts, where widespread communal violence had erupted during the Durga Puja, is reconsidering their future citizenship options, according to recent reports; many want to relocate/migrate to other countries in the long run.

The Trinamool Congress is trying hard again to gain a foothold in Tripura, where the party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee held his first rally on October 31. It had made several attempts in the past to expand the party in the northeastern state. After the return of party supremo Mamata Banerjee as the chief minister for the third time in West Bengal, TMC knows that this is the best time to once again spread the party outside Bengal. Although TMC is a recognised national party, its national party status is in danger and it is expected to lose the status when it will be reviewed by the Election Commission in 2024. Retaining the national party status is crucial for Mamata’s national ambitions.

Maha Vikas Aghadi minister Nawab Malik is the best thing that has happened to you-tubers in a while. His ‘disclosure a day’ on NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede's exploits is enough masala to keep raking in you-tube dollars. In fact, some you-tubers have gotten fat just sitting and making you-tube videos. That is not a joke. Nawab Malik is a one-man industry of instant news. And he has spawned 1001 you-tube instant news videos in less than a month.

It was five years ago, on that fateful night of November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his ‘historic’ decision of demonetization promising that it would act as a game changer in the Indian economy by driving out black money, weed out fake notes and check terror funds but the official figures prove the contrary as the rich become richer and the poor more poor in the wake of slowdown and the pandemic in the last two financial years.

Countries around the globe are meeting at the Conference of Parties - COP 26 at Glasgow. The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change – IPCC and several civil society organisations have raised serious concerns over deteriorating climatic conditions. The issue has gained importance because the world is witnessing repeated natural calamities as a result of rise in temperature of the earth and melting of glaciers causing rise in the sea level. This summit is in continuation of several such meets held earlier to discuss and impress upon the governments to take steps to mitigate the factors responsible for climate change. Rapid industrialization with half-hearted measures by governments, particularly the developed or fast developing economies, have added to the crises. Increase in military activity is one among the major causes for the production of gases responsible for climate crises. It is therefore important that the countries should debate on reducing tensions in different parts of the world so that production, sale and use of the armaments is put under check.

There might have been some fake news about cryptocurrency, but blockchain technology on which cryptocurrency is based is certainly a disruptive technology. But days are not far off when digital currency and blockchain technology are adopted in a big way not only for digital currency but also to promote transparency and traceability of data in real time and make its storage fraud proof.