Politics
India-China Border Clashes: Outfoxed & corner...
September 1, 2020
After a brief honeymoon with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has consistently failed to read Jinping and has frequently been caught off-guard by the Chinese leader. After a hiatus of six weeks following the first bloody clash between Indian and Chinese ...
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Delhi riots: Serious human rights abuses by Delhi ...
August 28, 2020
In a scathing report, Amnesty International accuses Delhi Police of being complicit in the riots that had struck the national capital for days in late February even while US President Donald Trump was in the city. It criticises government for granting total impunity to errant pol...
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India in a bind over US Presidential Elections 202...
August 27, 2020
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s enthusiastic endorsement of President Donald Trump at the Howdy Modi event in Houston last year comes to haunt Indian diaspora in US with the nomination of Indian origin Senator Kamala Harris as Democratic Vice Presidential candidate for the US Pr...
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Lockdown locks down sexual and reproductive health...
August 25, 2020
Millions of women in India will pay a rather heavy price as they were denied access to sexual and reproductive healthcare during lockdown. Situation is far from normal even now.
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Earth Overshoot Day: India a role model for global...
August 22, 2020
Even though Earth Overshoot Day 2020 has been delayed by three weeks due to coronavirus pandemic, humanity is racing ahead to rapidly devour all global resources. If the whole world lived like Qatar, global resources for an entire year would be exhausted by February 11. For Luxem...
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Another nail in coffin of freedom of expression in...
August 18, 2020
Supreme Court’s Friday ruling holding noted lawyer Prashant Bhushan guilty of criminal contempt of court has been roundly criticised by lawyers, former judges, retired bureaucrats and the media as an attack on freedom of expression by the guardians of the Constitution. “Supre...
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Independence Day 2020: New Normal and Better Norma...
August 15, 2020
As India marks its 74th independence day, it is an occasion to see how far have we come since our ‘tryst with destiny’ began on that fateful day of August 15, 1947. For a nation ruled by foreign powers for centuries, 74 years of independence is not a lot of time. But in a rel...
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August 5: Shifting the discourse from Kashmir to R...
August 6, 2020
The decision to organise the bhoomi-pujan for the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya is a well-thought out and strategic move by the BJP to shape the political agenda of the country over years to come.
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Global leaders complicit in murder of democracy in...
August 5, 2020
A year of flagrant violation of human rights in Jammu & Kashmir has gone pretty much unnoticed globally as political leaders, self-proclaimed human rights champions, continue to look the other way.
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Government disregards disabled persons during pand...
August 4, 2020
Voluntary organisations as well as family members of the disabled are left to fend for themselves as government ignores the needs of persons with special needs.
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