Politics
Modi 3.0’s first Budget: Major push for jobs, sp...
July 24, 2024
Presenting the budget for 2024-25 on Tuesday in Lok Sabha, marking the beginning of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third term, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said she has attempted to invigorate employment, enhance skills development, and deliver significant relief to the ...
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Will Modi3.0 finally wake up to unemployment crisi...
July 22, 2024
Budgets in India have long been closely monitored as they set the tone for the government’s priorities and policies for the year ahead and this year it will be no different when Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman takes the floor of the Lok Sabha on July 23 to introduce the bud...
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Macron caught between devil & deep sea in Fre...
July 3, 2024
Ever since he emerged from the shadows to enter the race and suddenly bag the top job in the country in May 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron has been the key, if not the only relevant politician in the country, seen or rather perceived to be making one smart move after anot...
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Press freedom in India: RSF, civil society organis...
July 1, 2024
Reporters Sans Frontier (RSF) a leading global press freedom and national civil society organisations have given the new government 10 recommendations to guarantee press freedom. In a press statement, RSF says that it, along with the civil society organisations Network of Women i...
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‘Huddle negotiations’ run into hurdles in Bonn...
June 24, 2024
With the global climate change negotiations moving forward with dreadfully inadequate actions and suicidally slow speed for over a decade and the divisions between developing and the developed world reaching new levels, a new terminology called ‘huddle-negotiations’ is be...
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Macron calls snap French elections after European ...
June 10, 2024
In a decision that seems to have caught his own party and his government by total surprise, French President Emmanuel Macron has dissolved the French Parliament, Assemblée Nationale, and called snap elections that would be held on June 30 and July 7. Macron made the announced in...
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Modi3.0: Running a coalition government a challeng...
June 9, 2024
On June 9 as Narendra Modi prepares to take oath as the Prime Minister of India for a third term, he finds himself in a very unfamiliar position as he will be leading a government that is dependent upon the coalition partners for survival. In a career spanning almost 25 years, th...
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Verdict 2024: Voters equally surprised by outcome
June 6, 2024
Following the announcement of final results in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has managed only 240 seats in the 543-member house, thus losing majority for the first time after 10 years. It is also the first time that incumbent Prime Minister Naren...
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Verdict 2024: Democracy defeats despotism & d...
June 5, 2024
Once again, the exit polls in India have come a cropper as the results of the Lok Sabha elections belie the exit polls that had all predicted a smooth sailing for the ruling NDA alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party to an historic tally over close to 400 seats in the 543-mem...
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RSF, Guernica 37 Chambers ask United States to san...
June 3, 2024
Reporters sans Frontières (RSF), a Paris-based press freedom advocacy organisation and Guernica 37 Chambers, a British human rights activist organisation, have asked the United States to impose sanctions on officials of Delhi Police accused of violating press freedom by target...
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