Politics
Doctors’ stir over NEET PG courses picks pace af...
December 29, 2021
Striking resident doctors decide to continue their month-long agitation, rejecting an appeal by Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, who met with a delegation of representatives of the doctors on Tuesday and urged them to call off the stir, in view of rapidly rising Covid-...
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Meeting with PMO: Election Commission has failed I...
December 22, 2021
For decades, the Prime Minister’s Office in India has functioned as the most important body in the executive, often far more powerful than even the senior most cabinet ministers. In many ways, it is important for the Prime Minister to have an empowered PMO, not only to help the...
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France eyes bigger share of Indian defence market
December 18, 2021
Ever since the controversial government to government deal to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets that was announced out of the blue by Narendra Modi during his first visit to Paris as Prime Minister in 2015, France has been eyeing a much bigger order from India. For France, Modi’s deci...
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EU’s Global Gateway to counter Chinese BRI
December 8, 2021
In search for a transformative moment to re-establish their close allies’ relations, both the European Union and the United States have found China as the common denominator which can help them quickly regain lost charm of trusted allies. Under four years of Trump Presidency, r...
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Belarus-Poland standoff, Channel tragedy put focus...
December 2, 2021
Six years after it was faced with a crippling flow of migrants, from war-hit and natural disaster affected parts of Middle East and South Asia, Europe is having a tough time again with migrants. In the worst-ever such incident in decades, dozens drowned in the English Channel as ...
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Lessons from flare up of Covid-19 across Europe
November 29, 2021
Recently, in its most alarming statement in months, the World Health Organisation warned that Europe was once again the epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic and that it was the only region in the world where the number of cases was rising still. The warning came as a range of natio...
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Poor poll prospects push Modi to repeal farm laws
November 20, 2021
The repeal of the extremely contentious farm laws is one of the biggest political and ideological defeats for the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which had over the past 18 months invested a lot of air time as well political capital and its entire weight behind the fa...
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Tamil Nadu farmers face uncertain future after rai...
November 17, 2021
After the problems caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, which disrupted farming extensively, farmers of Tamil Nadu were looking to recover from their losses but now the heavy rain have thrashed all their expectations. “Crops on over 145,000 acres cultivated during the samba season ...
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NSAs meet on Afghanistan: Delhi’s unidimensional...
November 10, 2021
Today, India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval hosts his counterparts from seven countries to discuss the security situation in the region, notably to curb export of terror and drugs from a beleaguered Afghanistan, following the fall of the country to the Taliban three mon...
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Goa elections: TMC, AAP sideshow, BJP, Congress ma...
November 6, 2021
In the lead-up to Goa’s Legislative Assembly elections, which will be held in February 2022, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee last week embarked on a three-day visit to the coastal state, purportedly to establish TMC as the primary ...
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