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LAFFIN KAMALA – WILL SHE MAKE IT TO THE WHITE HOUSE! When Kamala Devi Harris was born on October 20, 1964, to Shyamala Gopalan and Donald J Harris, neither Shyamala nor Donald would have ever imagined that their daughter would one day cock-a-snook at the most powerful position of the most powerful country on the earth. But that is the truth and not a fiction. On July 21, US President Joe Biden announced endorsing Kamala Harris, his Vice President for 4 years, 2020 to 2024, as the Presidential nominee of the Democrats. That was indeed a piece of history already made. Shyamala Gopalan, daughter of Gopalan Iyer, or Painganadu Venkatraman Gopalan Iyer from Thalasendrapuram, a tiny village on the outskirts of Thanjavoor city in Tamil Nadu, was a biologist. She arrived in the United States of America from India in 1958 to study endocrinology at the University of California, Berkeley. She completed her Ph.D. in the same University. During the course of research for her thesis she met Donald...

NEW DELHI: BAIL OR JAIL These days highest court of the land, the Supreme Court is making lot of noise about ‘bail is the rule and jail is an exception’. According to the legal luminaries of the apex court, this principle is applicable to offences under even special statuses like the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), so also under PMLA or Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Judges of the Apex Court passed the order under UAPA while granting bail on 13/08/2024 to a man accused of harboring suspected terrorists. The accused in the case is one Jalaluddin Khan, a retired police constable. Then comes the caste of Ms. K. Kavitha, a Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader and daughter of BRS strong man K. Chandrashekar Rao, former Chief Minister of Telangana. She was arrested under PMLA in the Delhi Liquor Excise policy scam. So also Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren arrested for money laundering. But here is a case of bail having been granted to the accused person with the condition h...

R.G. KAR MEDICAL COLLEGE & EMERGING RAPE CULTURE IN INDIA RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, named after legendary Radha Gobinda Kar, who as a District Health Officer worked tirelessly to save patients in the alleys of North Kolkata, during the plague epidemic that had gripped Kolkata in early 1899, was sadly caught in the tragic assault and murder of a young junior doctor on duty while she was resting past midnight of 8th & 9th Aug. Overnight, one of the best government hospitals in Kolkata had become a most disliked medical care centre, courtesy the apathy and diabolic attitude of the authorities, from the lowest to the highest levels of West Bengal government. On the night of 8th past midnight into the early part of 9th Aug, a young post graduate lady doctor after over 30 hours of continuous work had taken a break for resting in the seminar hall of the hospital. She was asleep without the faintest idea that it could be her last. Her peaceful sleep tragically ended in vio...

ELECTION – 2024 – 2029 How Formidable is Narendra Modi for opposition to Challenge! But who is Modi – Narendra Damordas Modi? A resident of Vadnagar, in north eastern Mehsana district of Gujarat where he completed his schooling. Born in Sept 1950, he started to attend the local RSS Shakha at the age of 8, where he met his future mentor Laxman Rao Inamdar. Public space informs that, he used to help his father in his tea stall in Vadnagar railway station. There appears to be some confusion on this, since it was only in 1970, the railway station was set-up in Vadnagar. But, there’s also a mention that Vadnagar had a meter guage train running since 1930, which means, there could have been some shelter which could pass-off as a railway station. At the age of 17, probably after finishing his schooling, he left home for Ramakrishna Math Ashram in Rajkot, then to Ramakrishna Ashram Belur Math in West Bengal and from there to Almora to be in Swami Vivekananda’s Ashram. Public space also info...

NEW DELHI: BHARAT RATNAS GALORE ,P>At five, this is the maximum number of the highest civilian award of Bharat Ratnas declared in one year. Beginning with former Bihar Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur and then followed by former Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani. After a lull of a few days comes the announcement of Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan or more well known as M.S. Swaminathan, the acclaimed father of Indian Green Revolution, followed by Chaudhary Charan Singh, a former Prime Minister and 2 times Chief Minister of U.P. and P.V. Narasimha Rao, a former Prime Minister. Truth of the matter is except Lal Krishna Advani, who is past 96 years of age, all others have passed away. This government at the centre is there since last almost 10 years, and attempting to remain continued for another term. This government could have conferred the honor all these years, but it didn’t happen for varieties of reasons. However it’s better late than never. It could even be termed a politi...