Short Stories of Politics and Unrest in the World

Around 25 NATO peacekeeping soldiers defending three town halls in northern Kosovo were injured in clashes with Serb protesters on May 29, while Serbia's president put the army on the highest level of combat alert. KFOR, the NATO-led peacekeeping mission to Kosovo, condemned the violence. Read More

A New York lawyer is facing a court hearing of his own after his firm used AI tool ChatGPT for legal research. A judge said the court was faced with an "unprecedented circumstance" after a filing was found to reference example legal cases that did not exist. The lawyer who used the tool told the court he was "unaware that its content could be false". Read More

U.S. President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy reached a tentative deal to suspend the federal government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling on May 27 evening, ending a months-long stalemate. However, the deal was announced without any celebration, in terms that reflected the bitter tenor of the negotiations and the difficult path it has to pass through Congress before the United States runs out of money to pay its debts in early June. Read More

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won reelection on May 28, extending his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade as the country reels from high inflation and the aftermath of an earthquake that leveled entire cities. A third term gives Erdogan, a polarizing populist, an even stronger hand domestically and internationally, and the election results will have implications far beyond the capital of Ankara. Turkey stands at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, and it plays a key role in NATO. Read More

Spain is set to hold an early general election on July 23, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced on May 29. The move comes after Sanchez's Socialist Party suffered setbacks in regional elections. The difficulties facing Sanchez's government also come as Spain is set to assume the European Union's rotating presidency on July 1. Read More

Russia’s Interior Ministry on May 29 issued an arrest warrant for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham following his comments related to the fighting in Ukraine. Read More

Crime, Corruption, and Impunity in India

Politicians, bureaucrats, police, and judges have formed a criminal gang in India. The following cases depict how they collude with criminals and commit crimes and corruption with impunity while the ordinary citizens are suffering. Click the following links for details.

UN Petition on Punjab Unrest RCS-EOW Case

Cabinet Secretariat Case

Prime Minister Office (PMO) Case

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Case

Delhi Lokayukta Case

DoPT Case CBI Case

Economic Offences Wing (EOW) Case Supreme Court Case

Delhi Govt Case Delhi Petitions Committee / CVC Case

NHRC Case Petition on School Education

Environmental Crime Case Lokpal Removal Case

Judicial Corruption Case RCS Corruption Case

Lokayukta Delhi Corruption Case Widehouse Scandal

NHRC Case at UN HRC IAS Group Corruption Case

CPGRAMS Cases PGMS Cases

IAS Corruption Record UNCAC Petition

Delhi Police Case DoPT Processes

RCS RTI Violations DDA Corruption Case

Petitions and Representations by Rakesh Raman. Up to April 2023

NATO Chalks Out Strategy for Digital Transformation

By 2030, NATO’s Digital Transformation will enable the Alliance to conduct multi-domain operations.

NATO’s Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana addressed the Consultation, Command and Control Board (C3 Board) Spring Plenary meeting (23-24 May 2023), which approved the Implementation Strategy for NATO’s Digital Transformation.

In his remarks, Mr. Geoana emphasized the progress made since the Allied Defence Ministers approved the Digital Transformation Vision in 2022, in response to the 2022 Strategic Concept’s call to expedite the digital transformation of the Alliance.

By 2030, NATO’s Digital Transformation will enable the Alliance to conduct multi-domain operations, ensure interoperability across all domains, enhance situational awareness, and facilitate political consultation and data-driven decision-making.

To address these challenges, NATO’s C3 Board Principals provided direction and guidance for an Alliance Zero Trust Policy, noted the progress on the Data Exploitation Framework and exchanged views on cloud-adoption models –underlining the importance of all these interlinked work stands associated with digital transformation goals.

NATO’s C3 Board is the senior multinational policy body in the area of Consultation, Command and Control (C3), reporting to and advising the North Atlantic Council on all C3 policy matters. The next meeting of the C3 Board at Principals’ level will take place in Brussels in November 2023. Courtesy: NATO Download

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Only Corrupt Politicians Will Support Kejriwal on Delhi Govt Tussle

As Kejriwal is unlikely to get administrative control in Delhi - which is not a full state - he should remove his junior party colleague Bhagwant Mann from the CM position in Punjab and become the CM of Punjab.

These days, Delhi chief minister (CM) Arvind Kejriwal is trying to mobilize support against the Central government which has divested him of all powers in the Delhi Government.

The Central government of prime minister (PM) Narendra Modi has taken another step to stop the misuse of authority and corruption by Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) colleagues.

In order to oppose a Supreme Court order of May 11 that gave Delhi bureaucracy control to the Kejriwal government, the Modi government promulgated an ordinance on May 19 to create a National Capital Civil Service Authority.

The new Authority will have the power to recommend the transfers and postings of bureaucrats including all Group A officers and officers of DANICS (Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar, Lakshadweep, Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli Civil Services) serving in Delhi.

While the overall control of administration will stay with Delhi Lt. Governor (LG) Vinai Saxena, Kejriwal and his ministers will continue to be dummy officials in the government without any direct role. In order to oppose the Modi government’s ordinance, Kejriwal is meeting various political leaders in other states. However, few are expected to support Kejriwal who is perceived to be the most corrupt politician in Indian politics.

Arvind Kejriwal, chief minister, Delhi

In a tweet written in Hindi, Kejriwal said on May 23 that he will travel in the entire country to seek support from other political leaders so that the ordinance does not become a law in the Rajya Sabha where opposition parties have sufficient strength.

Since the ordinance is mainly to stop corruption by Kejriwal and other AAP leaders, no honest leader will support Kejriwal. Along with Kejriwal, a number of AAP politicians are either facing investigations or languishing in jail for their alleged involvement in massive corruption and money laundering cases.

As most political leaders are aware of Kejriwal’s corruption cases, they will not stand with “corrupt Kejriwal.” Only those leaders will collaborate with Kejriwal in opposing the ordinance who themselves are corrupt and fear investigations by the central agencies such as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

The main opposition party Congress, for example, has decided to stay away from Kejriwal and his “corrupt” colleagues. A Delhi Congress leader Ajay Maken wrote a long Twitter post on May 23 to explain why Congress should not oppose the ordinance.

He said that there are administrative, political, and legal reasons for not supporting Kejriwal when he is demanding undue control in Delhi. The Supreme Court order that Kejriwal is citing is totally ambiguous, as most court orders in India are not very clear and usually written in broken (or wrong) English.

Since most Supreme Court judges also lack domain knowledge, they take casual decisions which cannot be challenged. The situation is worse in the high courts and lower courts.

If you evaluate the Supreme Court judgments through an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based expert system, you will find that almost all the judgments or delays are either wrong or biased.

It is once again visible in the standalone decision - without considering various aspects - that the Supreme Court took in favour of the Kejriwal government.

As Kejriwal is unlikely to get administrative control in Delhi - which is not a full state - he should remove his junior party colleague Bhagwant Mann from the CM position in Punjab and become the CM of Punjab.

Since Bhagwant Mann is an illiterate and incapable politician, he is not able to handle the growing unrest in Punjab.