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MIP - MAY 2025

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NEW DELHI: - MEDICOS DISABILITY NORMS There was this report in the print media “NMC’s disability norms to focus on ‘What student can do’.” With disabled medical students going in circles not only while studying medicine, but also once they clear the degree level to keep themselves usefully occupied, this development is very positive empowerment of disabled medicos. Acting on directions from the Supreme Court, NMC (National Medical Commission) is set to review the disability guidelines for both admission to medical college, so also to perform as medical practitioner, once disabled person is qualified as a doctor. To begin with NMC has renamed the Disability Assessment Boards as Ability Assessment Board, to recognize the ability of the disabled student to learn, clear the exam and then start medical practice. Here emphasis is clearly on what the student can do or perform rather than the degree of disability aprisal. According to the proposed review there will be no rigid disability per...

MAY FOCUS 2025

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TRUMPONOMICS & THE WORLD AT LARGE Donald John Trump, is probably the only person and an issue that made ISSUES & CONCERNS, repeat the Focus on the man, in less than 4 months. It was in January 2025 that I&C carried the Focus “DONALD J TRUMP: The New U.S. President”, and we are in May, in three intervening months, the man and the U.S. President forced himself into the Focus, for the kind of words and actions that followed from the 47th occupant of the White House. He is also the 45th President of U.S., having lost his bid for being 46th President in 2020. He attempted yet again in 2024 and was successful. After his first term, reportedly “Scholars and historians ranked him as one of the worst president of the United States of America in the entire history of U.S. Presidency”. Be that as it may, Americans supporting the Republican Party elected him to contest the U.S. Presidential election in 2024 and he won against Democrat Kamala Harris. So clearly Americans by and large w...

FOCUS - NOVEMBER 2024

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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...

Month In Perspective - October 2024

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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...