Madam President: On Droupadi Murmu’s election as India’s 15th President Shri Radhe Shri Radhe..

The election of Droupadi Murmu as India’s 15th President is rich in symbolism. In the 75th year of the country’s Independence, Ms. Murmu becomes the second woman to occupy the Rashtrapati Bhavan, and the first member of a tribal community to do so. Her membership of the Santhal tribe is in focus. She has risen through the ranks in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and has shown a mind of her own during her stint as Governor of Jharkhand. Her election to the highest office of the country comes 101 years after two tribespeople were elected to legislative bodies in colonial India. Founding figures of the Republic were acutely cognisant of the disadvantageous position of the tribespeople and made special provisions such as the Fifth and Sixth Schedules of the Constitution. Jaipal Singh Munda, sportsman and tribal leader, was a prominent member of the Constituent Assembly who forcefully articulated the fears and hopes of tribespeople. In 2000, two States, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, were formed to give more focused attention to the concentrated tribal population in these regions. The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, was passed in 2006. Ms. Murmu’s election is a milestone in the journey of tribal empowerment, though she is by no means limited to her identity. It is a moment of pride for India......

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Twin trouble: On the rumble in the AIADMK.. Faithful

Marching towards its golden jubilee, the AIADMK has dumped its five-year experiment with dual leadership and expelled O. Panneerselvam, one of its charioteers. Edappadi K. Palaniswami, a former accidental Chief Minister with a strong political survival instinct, will now steer the party as its interim general secretary. In 2017, when a three-way split threatened his fledgling government, he prudently accepted a BJP-facilitated arrangement in which he and Mr. Panneerselvam would share equal organisational powers. Sensing such shared leadership requiring disproportionate compromises had outlived its purpose, Mr. Palaniswami plotted its dismantling. Having earned the trust of legislators during his regime through a “decentralisation of resources”, he adopted the same strategy to fortify his party base. Steadfastly opposing attempts by Jayalalithaa’s friend V.K. Sasikala to regain control of the AIADMK; maintaining social distance with the ruling DMK; and not ceding much ground to the BJP during seat-sharing negotiations, worked to his advantage. In contrast, Mr. Panneerselvam came across as someone reluctant to fund party colleagues; deliberately maintaining ambiguity on Ms. Sasikala’s position; overtly inclined to do the BJP’s bidding, and extending cordiality to DMK leaders. Many prominent leaders, who stood by him during his ‘ Dharma Yudham’ against Ms. Sasikala, feeling alienated, switched camps.

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Staying watchful: On inflation risks

JULY 14, 2022 00:20 IST

UPDATED: JULY 14, 2022 01:28 IST

Inflation risks undermining growth and macroeconomic stability

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The concerted efforts made by the Reserve Bank and the Union government to contain inflation appear to be having some impact, albeit marginal, in slowing the pace of price gains, the latest retail inflation data show. Price gains as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) eased almost imperceptibly to 7.01% in June, from May’s 7.04%, with food price inflation slowing by a distinct 22 basis points to 7.75%. Of the 12 items comprising the food and beverages basket — almost half the weight of the CPI — the prices of pulses and edible oils both shrank from a month earlier. Prices of the key cooking medium, which had been on a boil amid a supply shock (from Ukraine and Indonesia), have cooled, helped by import duty reductions. Year-on-year inflation in oils and fats decelerated last month by a whopping 390 basis points to 9.4%, with the index shrinking 0.7% on a sequential basis. And prices of pulses contracted both from a year earlier and the preceding month. The other major positive sign of a policy measure translating to softer prices was with transportation fuels. The Centre’s reduction of excise duty on petrol and diesel in May manifested in a significant easing in inflation in the transport and communication index: year-on-year, the rate slowed by 260 basis points to 6.9%, while sequentially it shrank by 120 basis points.

Still, it would be way too premature for policymakers to drop their guard. With nine of the 12 items in the food and beverages basket, representing almost 80% of the sub index and spanning cereals, milk and meat to vegetables, sugar and spices, experiencing sequential price gains, the Government would need to maintain vigil to ward off any build-up of inflationary pressures in consumers’ kitchens. Year-on-year inflation in cereals, meat and milk all accelerated in June from May’s pace, and price gains in vegetables still remained in double digits at 17.4%. The progress of monsoon rains give hope that the prices of farm produce may moderate in the coming months, provided the extreme rainfall and flooding seen in some States does not adversely hit crop growing regions. And while an appreciable softening in global crude oil prices in recent sessions offers some respite, the rupee’s sharp depreciation against the dollar means India will continue to face the spectre of ‘imported inflation’ as the bill for imports, including crude, keeps rising. The decision of the GST Council to raise tariffs on a range of goods including some items of mass consumption is also bound to add upward pressure on prices. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s remarks on Tuesday reflect authorities’ recognition that any let up in the fight against inflation risks undermining growth and broader macroeconomic stability...

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July 9, 1982, Forty Years Ago: Opposition Walkout... Shri Radhe

The installation of the Bhajan Lal government by the Haryana governor and the alleged misuse of government machinery to bolster the Congress-I candidate Zail Singh’s campaign rocked both Houses of Parliament. The half-hour furore in the Lok Sabha ended with the opposition parties, barring the DMK and Muslim League, staging a walkout. Their grouse was that the Speaker’s refusal to take up their adjournment motion.

USSR Warns US

The Soviet Union has warned the United States not to land troops in Lebanon. President Leonid Brezhnev, in a message to Ronald Reagan has said that if American troops went into Beirut, the Soviet Union would “build its policy on that fact”. Meanwhile, five American ships of the Sixth Fleet, carrying 1,800 marines have arrived in the Lebanese waters, to be on hand in the event of the evacuation of Palestinian fighters from beseiged West Beirut. While artillery exchanges in Beirut continue, some hopes have been raised of progress in the negotiations on a nine-point plan put forward by the American presidential envoy, Philip Habib. Israel announced that it accepts seven of the nine points.

Suspension Revoked

The four-day tussle between the government and the Opposition over the Monghyr killings ended with the Bihar Assembly adopting a motion revoking the suspension of 98 opposition MLAs with immediate effect. As in the case of suspension, the resolution was moved by the chief minister and adopted by voice vote in the afternoon. The members will be attending the House three days prior to the original date of the suspension lifting. The withdrawal of the suspension came only after the opposition members had forced their entry into the House.

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PM Modi remembers his friend Shinzo Abe. Shri Radhe Shri radhe

Narendra Modi writes: Even when he was not the prime minister of Japan between 2007 and 2012, and more recently after 2020, our personal bond remained as strong as ever...

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Shinzo Abe — an outstanding leader of Japan, a towering global statesman, and a great champion of India-Japan friendship – is not among us anymore. Japan and the world have lost a great visionary. And, I have lost a dear friend.

I first met him in 2007, during my visit to Japan as the chief minister of Gujarat. Right from that first meeting, our friendship went beyond the trappings of office and the shackles of official protocol...

Delayed payments for small firms stifle economic growth..hare Krishna hare Krishna hare Krishna

Kinjal Sampat and Arun Singh write: For every day that a payment is delayed for credit-starved MSMEs, there is an erosion of value. If this issue is not addressed now, it will only add to the burden on these firms

Glimpses of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s wedding were reassuring and heartwarming.... Shri Radhe

In the visuals of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s wedding to Gurpreet Kaur on Thursday, there was a sense of heavily-painted curtains parting to offer a heartening glimpse of normal life backstage...

Amid apocalyptic headlines, it is reassuring to catch sight of a member of the ruling political class doing something so ordinary as getting married. In the visuals of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s wedding to Gurpreet Kaur on Thursday, there was a sense of heavily-painted curtains parting to offer a heartening glimpse of normal life backstage.

The nature of politics, with its brutal cut-and-thrust and high-stakes power play can make its practitioners seem remote to the aam aurat and aadmi. Politicians may be representatives of the people but only rarely, despite the facade of intimacy created by social media, do they seem of the people. To watch one such representative — a chief minister, to boot — get married felt like a humanising revelation. This was especially so because it was a small and intimate ceremony, the happy couple posing with the mother of the groom, a menu that offered regular wedding fare, like vegetable jalfrezi, dal makhani and gulab jamun. There were only a few lal batti guests, including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha. This is in sharp contrast to the big, fat Punjabi wedding, with large numbers, lavish multi-cuisine buffets and luxurious venues. Or the showy political wedding where the guest list is as much a demonstration of power and clout as a floor test.

Ever since he took oath of office on March 16, Mann has had much on his plate. His government has inherited a deepening agrarian crisis, a drug problem that can’t simply be wished away, a resurrected spectre of separatist politics and a broken economy that finds it hard to keep pace with the aspirations of Punjab’s young. But even a chief minister must have a life away from the daunting challenges of his job. Lakh lakh vadhaiyan to the newly-weds!..

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The clock is ticking on the issue of energy poverty

Narendra Taneja writes: India's PM spoke on behalf of energy-poor, from Lima to Hanoi to Nairobi. Powerful platforms like the G-20 and the BRICS need to focus more on energy access, poverty and security.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke for all the energy-poor countries, from Chile to Indonesia to Rwanda, when he invoked the need for the impoverished to be able to access energy as much as the rich global north at the recently-concluded G-7 Summit in Germany. Experts estimate the total number of energy-poor people in Latin America, Asia and Africa to be in the region of three billion people. In South Asia alone, over one billion people are struggling with extremely limited access to energy, despite the LPG and the LED revolutions in India..

BJP’s Murmu gameplan has worked. Opposition loses the plot in presidential elections Shri Radhe

BJP’s nomination of Draupadi Murmu as its candidate for the presidential election has stumped the opposition. Murmu is proving to be an inspired choice for BJP. Her candidature has left opposition parties uneasy because nearly every state has a significant Adivasi belt. With the community most influential in the central, eastern and northeast regions, it is the opposition parties in these belts feeling the heat most.

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Mamata Banerjee who showed the greatest urgency and zeal to pitch a joint opposition candidate has all but given the short shift to her partyman and candidate Yashwant Sinha. Mamata has been left bemoaning that Murmu could have been a consensus choice had BJP meaningfully engaged with the opposition. With the Santhal tribe to which Murmu belongs an influential votebank in North Bengal, BJP, for months on the backfoot in Bengal, will be pleased at having scored a big political point over TMC.

Read also: How BJP’s choice is breaking whatever unity opposition has

Not surprisingly, Sinha reportedly won’t be visiting Bengal to canvas votes. The situation is no different in his home state Jharkhand where UPA ally JMM has announced support for Murmu. Even Uddhav Thackeray is finding it hard to drum up support for Sinha in his depleted camp. The outcome of the presidential election is now a foregone conclusion. BJP has yet again bested the opposition, and these parties will be more circumspect for the vice presidential election. Will there be a consensus or will the opposition wait this time for the BJP candidate before announcing a pick?

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Air pocket: Show cause to SpiceJet overdue. DGCA has to be more proactive on safety..

India’s civil aviation regulator DGCA issued a show cause notice to SpiceJet after reviewing a series of incidents reported from April 1 in aircrafts operated by it. The broad conclusions of the regulator are that the airline had poor internal safety oversight and inadequate maintenance. Consequently, there’s been a degradation in safety margin. There have been at least seven instances reported since May where there have been questions about SpiceJet. The worst day was July 5 when there were three instances, including one where a Delhi-Dubai flight had to be diverted to Karachi after a snag..None of these problems have arisen overnight. There have been red flags for a while. In SpiceJet’s 2020-21 annual report, the auditor’s report came with qualifications. The auditor raised doubts about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Also, undisputed statutory dues such as PF and GST had not been regularly deposited. Financial stress inevitably leads to other compromises. DGCA, thereafter, conducted a financial assessment in September 2021. The finding showed that suppliers are not being paid regularly and that has led to a shortage of spares.

In March, GoI informed Rajya Sabha that there have been investigations into 49 air accidents since 2016. The findings showed that main reasons for accidents were failure on the part of the cockpit crew to stick to standard operating procedures, technical defects and factors related to the weather and ATC. DGCA primarily deals with safety issues. Its record has been mixed. In 2013-14, the US Federal Aviation Authority decided to downgrade Indian civil aviation from category I to category II after an audit brought out shortcomings in safety and maintenance. It had an adverse impact on the international plans of some Indian carriers. Since then, matters have improved and a recent US FAA audit reportedly went off well.

The regulator’s focus on safety has to be relentless – a Vistara flight yesterday experienced an engine snag. There’s a key international safey audit ahead. This one will be carried out by ICAO, a specialised UN agency that deals with air transport. In the last pre-pandemic year Indian aviation companies carried about 141 million passengers. That will be the baseline in a normal year. DGCA’s primary responsibility is to take timely action to make sure that Indian flyers are guaranteed safety standards that match the best. That requires being proactive when problems are at an incipient stage...

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Ureterovesical Junction (UVJ) Obstruction....A brief description....

The ureterovesical junction is located where the ureter (the tube that drains urine from the kidney) meets the bladder. Ureterovesical junction (UVJ) obstruction refers to a blockage to this area. The obstruction impedes the flow of urine down to the bladder, causing the urine to back up into and dilate the ureters and kidney (megaureter and hydronephrosis).

Unilateral UVJ obstruction is the second most common prenatally detected obstructive disease, often picked up on maternal ultrasounds during pregnancy. Each year, we treat nearly 100 children who have a UVJ obstruction...

Due to the increased use of prenatal imaging, UVJ obstruction may be identified before any symptoms are present. If any dilation is identified in the kidneys or ureters, the baby will be monitored throughout the pregnancy and after birth. Once the baby is born, further imaging studies may confirm the obstruction. Older children typically have back or flank pain and kidney stones. The pain may be associated with nausea and vomiting. Other symptoms might include bloody urine, a urinary tract infection (often with a fever), or might even be a vague abdominal pain...

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Your child may undergo a variety of tests to help confirm his diagnosis and evaluate the extent of his condition.

Renal bladder ultrasound (RBUS): This procedure uses sound waves to outline the kidneys and bladder. It will enable us to see the degree of hydronephrosis (dilation of the kidney).

MAG III renal scan: This study helps us determine how each kidney is functioning and the degree of blockage. An intravenous line (IV) is used to inject a special solution called an isotope into your child's veins. The isotope makes it possible to see the kidneys clearly. Pictures of the kidneys will be taken with a large machine that rotates around your child. Your child will need an IV and a catheter for this study.

MRI/MRU: MRI is a radiation-free diagnostic procedure that uses a combination of a large magnet, radiofrequencies and a computer to produce detailed images of the body. Magnetic resonance urography (MRU) creates detailed pictures of the kidneys, ureters and bladder. Your child will need an IV and a catheter for this study. Your child may need sedation if she is young and might have difficulty tolerating the length of the study, which is typically 40 minutes..

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Each year, approximately 50 ureteral reimplantations are done at CHOP. Our overall goal in treating a UVJ obstruction is to preserve renal function. In situations where the kidney function is compromised, surgery is needed. In some children, an ultrasound may show a significant amount of dilation (megaureter and hydronephrosis) but the kidney functions and drains well. In this situation, we will closely follow your child with repeated imaging studies.

Cutaneous distal ureterostomy

In a newborn with massive ureteral dilation or poor renal function, a cutaneous distal ureterostomy may be recommended. The ureter is surgically brought to the surface of the skin to allow it to drain urine freely into the diaper. This allows the affected kidney and ureter to decompress. Around 18 months of age, the ureter is then reimplanted into the bladder.

In select cases, the obstruction can be managed completely endoscopically (without any skin incisions). Your child's surgery will be done under general anesthesia. While your child is asleep, the surgeon will use a laser to open up the obstruction. He will then use a small balloon to expand the narrow area and leave a temporary small tube, called a stent, to allow the urine to drain.

Ureteral reimplantation

The surgical procedure to correct UVJ obstruction is called a ureteral reimplantation. This surgical procedure involves removing the section of the ureter that is abnormal, reducing it and reconnecting the ureter.

In young babies, the reimplantation is done through a small incision. Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is an option for children older than 6 months. The reimplantation can be done either laparoscopically or through a robotic assisted laparoscopic approach. The minimally invasive approach is accomplished through three small incisions, the size of a grain of rice. The advantages are smaller, less visible incisions and a quicker recovery period. The minimally invasive technique is not appropriate for all children. Your healthcare provider will work with you and your family to determine what kind of intervention is best..

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