Politics
US Elections: Impact on US-India relations
November 4, 2020
For long the United States Presidential Elections bring about change not just within the United States, but its ripples are indeed felt all over the globe even when the incumbent wins another term. Thus, the mandarins in New Delhi would also be watching the proceedings closely as...
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This contribution of Trump is not much talked abou...
November 2, 2020
When 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore, former vice President of USA, there was a global appreciation of the work done by the winners in bringing climate change issue at the centre of the current and future ...
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Increasing data privacy concerns over Aarogya Setu...
October 30, 2020
Claimed to be world’s most downloaded contact tracing app, Aarogya Setu app, found itself again in the eye of storm when the Central Information Commission (CIC) asked the National Informatics Centre (NIC) for some specific details on the app and the NIC said it had no informat...
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Time for France to acknowledge its Muslim minority
October 26, 2020
French President Emmanuel Macron’s statements on relationship between Islam and French culture following the beheading of a French professor raise a storm in and outside France. The murder brings focus back on situation of Muslims, a sizeable minority in the country.
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Driven to desperation, Ola, Uber drivers threaten ...
October 25, 2020
Even four months after the lockdown was lifted, tens of thousands of drivers of ride hailing apps remain desperate as Ola and Uber change rules of the game and bankers chase drivers for debt repayments.
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Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: Test for Modi &...
October 19, 2020
The migrant crisis, unemployment, annual floods, Covid-19 pandemic and new farm laws likely to be big factors when Bihar votes in October-November assembly elections.
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An eye on business, EU, US turn the other away fro...
October 18, 2020
The decision of Amnesty International to shut down its office in India last month following a freeze of its bank accounts ordered by the Indian government over some alleged malpractices drew a rare response from the government of United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson that e...
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Covid-19 pushes malnutrition targets further away ...
October 14, 2020
Already lagging behind its goals for eradicating malnutrition, India slides further due to disruptions in food deliveries to vulnerable sections of the society. Government needs to do much more than simply throw money at malnutrition, wishing it will disappear.
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Paswan’s death puts spanner in Nitish Kumar’s ...
October 10, 2020
Union food minister Ramvilas Paswan’s death is bound to upset Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s calculations in upcoming assembly elections.
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SC verdict against the idea of protests, say Shahe...
October 8, 2020
Shaheen Bagh protestors feel deceived and dissatisfied with the Supreme Court’s verdict that public places cannot be occupied indefinitely in the name of protests.
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