Politics
RSF urges parties to adopt press freedom programme...
April 13, 2024
Reporters sans Frontières (RSF), a Paris-based press freedom advocacy organisation has asked political parties participating in the forthcoming general elections in India to endorse 10 concrete measures, to uphold the fundamental right to accurate news and information and ensure...
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Elections 2024: Migrant workers, transgenders face...
April 5, 2024
India is readying for the upcoming general elections with a record 968 million eligible voters in what is clearly the largest democratic exercise in the world. The process, to be covered in an unprecedented seven phases spread over nearly eight weeks, is set to commence in a matt...
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Year 2024: Hottest elections trapped in triple cri...
March 25, 2024
The year 2024 is all about voting. As many as 76 of the 196 countries in the world will be engaged in the national elections in which people citizens across the world will decide who will govern them for next few years. The elections, called festivals of democracy, are spread t...
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Petitioners demand SIT probe into electoral bonds
March 24, 2024
Following the Supreme Court’s decision to scrap the controversial electoral bond scheme, calling it “unconstitutional” on February 15, attention has turned to the recent release of comprehensive data shedding light on the scheme’s inner workings. Renowned lawyer and act...
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Jammu & Kashmir awaits historic Lok Sabha ele...
March 17, 2024
As Jammu & Kashmir prepares to embark on a significant electoral journey, the looming Lok Sabha elections stand as a beacon of hope and opportunity for the erstwhile state since the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution in 2019. After years of political turbulence and...
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RSF asks India to reconsider French journalist Van...
January 25, 2024
International press freedom organisation Reporters without Borders (RSF) has sounded alarm over the potential expulsion of French journalist Vanessa Dougnac, who has been based in the country for over two decades. In a press statement, the Paris-based organisation says that as Fr...
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Macron in India: Economic ties remain Achilles hee...
January 25, 2024
On January 26, when Emmanuel Macron becomes the sixth French President to be the Chief Guest at the Indian Republic Day parade in New Delhi’s Raj Path, it will reinforce the strong and stable relations that India and France have enjoyed for decades. Indeed, strategically and cu...
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Disappointed by SC ruling on Article 370, Kashmiri...
January 3, 2024
People in the truncated union territory of Jammu and Kashmir feel they have been let down by the Supreme Court, which delivered its verdict on the critical issue of abrogation of the Article 370 of the Indian Constitution after a delay of almost five years. In a ruling last fortn...
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UNESCO warns against targetting journalists in con...
December 20, 2023
A report by Paris-based United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) says that the last three months of this year in particular have already been the deadliest quarter for journalists in conflict zones since at least 2007, with 27 deaths. In all, UNESC...
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EU-China Summit leaves big questions for European ...
December 14, 2023
On December 7, Beijing hosted the 24th EU-China Summit, the first in-person summit between the two since 2019. President of the European Council Charles Michel and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, accompanied by High Representative Josep Borrell, represe...
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