• Explained: National party status – meaning and benefits/priviledges https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-politics/aap-set-to-become-a-national-party-after-gujarat-8313695/
  • Column: reforms needed in Parliament sessions by Derek O’Brien: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/derek-o-brien-parliament-winter-session-challenge-to-bjp-8314356/
  • BJP Wins Gujarat, Congress Wins Himachal, AAP party gets national status.
  • Diaspora: USA to eliminate the per country quota on green cards to allow US employers to focus on hiring people based on merit, not their birthplace. Name of the Act: the Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment (EAGLE) Act. Indians to benefit from this.
  • Ethics: prisoner exchange- BRITTNEY GRINER, the American basketball star jailed in Russia,was released on after nearly 10 months of captivity in a prisoner swap for Russian Arms dealer Viktor Bout aka “Merchant of Death.
  • PERU SWORE in a new president on Wednesday after a day of political drama that saw leftist leader Pedro Castillo arrested after his ousting from office in an impeachment trial following his last-ditch bid to cling to power by dissolving Congress.
  • ⚾️📻⚾️🎙✋THREE WAYS OF CALCULATING AGE COEXIST IN THE COUNTRY S Koreans set to turn younger, old way of counting age scrapped
  • ⚾️📻⚾️🎙✋ Delhi High Court issues notice to Ashneer Grover on BharatPe suit
  • Government will launch India’s first ever surety bonds insurance product. Refer to infographic slide attached.