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CJI Dipak Misra, Justice Chelameswar and 5 other judges will retire from the Supreme Court this year. But the Centre's delaying tactics are preventing them from being replaced.

With the Nobel Prize in Economics being awarded to two prominent behavioural economists, Daniel Kahneman and Richard Thaler, economics will never be the same again. By bringing psychology and emotion to the forefront of economics, behaviorists have made economics beautiful. Yet as is true of any human, the field cannot survive just on the basis of love, beauty and fresh air.

The Communist Party of China (CPC) made a cryptic statement of enormous political import on Sunday, 25 February, when it announced that its Constitution would be amended to remove a clause that restricted the tenure of the Chinese President to two terms of five years each.

In effect, this amendment is Xi Jinping-specific, for the Chinese President is to be formally elected to a second five year term in early March. And now it will not be his last – as it was for his predecessors Jiang Zeming and Hu Jintao.

HMD Global follows the cue after Micromax to become the first global brand to enter the 4G VoLTE feature phone segment. They’ve done so with the added nostalgia of reviving the Nokia 8110 phone, which now supports 4G, announced at the ongoing MWC 2018 in Barcelona.

Both JioPhone and the Nokia 8110 4G are running on the same operating system, ie Kai OS, but what else is there to talk about these two? We find out.

Can someone in the prime of their health fall prey to heart disease? Dr Ashok Seth, Head of Cardiology at Fortis Hospitals, explains this and more.

On 15 February, hours after India’s largest bank scam – where diamond czar Nirav Modi and his uncle, Mehul Choksi, allegedly got illegal loans of Rs 12,700 crore from the Punjab National Bank – hit headlines, the Enforcement Directorate raided several of Modi’s and Choksi’s properties. The agency tweeted that Rs 5,100 crore worth of diamonds and precious stones had been seized – or half the scam amount.

But, does this seizure really mean that half the exchequer’s money has been recovered from the diamond duo? Can the agency hand over the assets to PNB so that they can sell it and recover the money?  NO.

By the year 2019, three villages in Varanasi will meet the ‘model’, or ‘adarsh’ village status; Or at least that is what was promised when they were adopted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In November 2014, a month after the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana was launched, the first village, Jayapur in Varanasi district, was adopted. This was followed by the Nagepur village in the same district in March 2016\. The third village, Kakrahia, was adopted in mid-July 2017.

So how are these villages in the PM’s home constituency faring? The Quint visited Jayapur and Nagepur villages to check if the goals outlined had tick marks against them.

Since the kind of withdrawing behaviour depicted by an awkward and a socially anxious person can be similar, it can be difficult to always understand what is a disorder and which isn’t one. Psychologist Prachi Jain lists some symptoms that can help distinguish Social Anxiety Disorder.