Politics

Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: Test for Modi & Nitish Kumar in equal measure

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 from India’s human rights situation

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 from India

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 poll prospects

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 Shaheen Bagh protesters

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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Hathras: Protestors burn Yogi Adityanath’s effigy in Delhi

Hathras: Protestors burn Yogi Adityanath’s effig...

October 6, 2020

In continuing protests against Hathras rape case, UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath effigy was burnt in New Delhi on Monday and protestors vowed to continue till he resigns.

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Time for ‘spinning wheel’ diplomacy between China & India

Time for ‘spinning wheel’ diplomacy between Ch...

October 2, 2020

India is surely not aiming to become a regional, let alone global superpower. After the end of the Cold War of 20th century and  ‘unipolar’ hegemony of US since then, the world has witnessed China’s emergence as a global economic power. It is an open secret that most of th...

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Coverage, continuity, intensity & quality, key challenges of malnutrition in India: UNICEF

Coverage, continuity, intensity & quality, ke...

October 2, 2020

India is home to the largest number of children suffering from malnutrition and stunted growth. This has been the case for decades. What has not been happening right? I am an optimist. Things are going in a right direction. Malnutrition is improving but my concern is that they ar...

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On its 75th anniversary, UN missing from COVID19 action

On its 75th anniversary, UN missing from COVID19 a...

September 29, 2020

Two years ago United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres flew into New Delhi to bestow the ‘Champions of the Earth’ award to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had won it alongside French President Emmanuel Macron. In 2015, India and France had launched the Internationa...

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Farmers across India on streets in Bharat Bandh against Farm Bills

Farmers across India on streets in Bharat Bandh ag...

September 25, 2020

A whole host of farmers’ organisations, political parties and civil rights activists joined in protests on Friday as part of the Bharat Bandh general strike called in protest against the three controversial farm reform bills passed in Parliament earlier this week. In Punjab, ra...

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