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The Supreme Court on Monday directed the constitution of an independent inquiry committee headed by a retired Supreme Court judge to investigate the security breach that occurred during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Punjab on January 5. The Supreme Court will release the names of the chairman and other officers in a detailed order.

Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan observed that citizens need not be ashamed to carry a vaccination certificate with the photograph of the Prime Minister as he is the leader of the country and not of a political party.

Engineers have won the Nobel Prize; none from India, though. Yet, there is at least one Indian engineer, who believes he has the IQ of an Einstein, the aptitude of Wilhelm Röntgen (the first engineer with a Nobel, 1903) and the sentience of a Swami Vivekananda, not to say the political acumen of a Nehru (naah, not him, he hates Nehru, obviously for his guts).

The Central government has decided to repeal the three controversial Farm Laws against which led to farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh to a widespread protest especially at a Singhu border for almost over a year.

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The terror bombings and killings around Kabul’s airport have once again focused world attention on the “sudden” American pull out. Actually, President Joe Biden’s “new” Afghanistan policy is old wine in new bottles.

And now, in the wake of the damage that BJP’s reputation has suffered at the hands of the social media, the very party which came to power through the deft use of a formidable network of IT “cells” using these same platforms, now wants them rendered ineffective.

The top court has come out recently with a comment stating that all laws relating to sedition need to be reviewed. This order makes it clear that it was the need of the hour for governments to learn to live with constructive criticism.

Modi’s belated recognition of the spread of the scourge into rural India which until now had appeared to escape the surges of the epidemic was a better late than never phenomenon. But will it lead to the Herculean cleansing of the Augean Stables that is needed to set the country on a course of relentless nation-building under the guidance of good governance?