The leaders of Gujarat Congress have deliberately desisted from any direct attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi during their campaign in the run-up to assembly polls next month. Terming the prime minister ‘Ghar ka Ladka’, Congress’ Nadiad candidate Dhruval Patel said: “Even though our ‘Ghar ka Ladka’ may be ‘badmaash’, we do not go outside […]
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By James M Dorsey Recent Saudi efforts to appease the Biden administration in the wake of the kingdom’s backing of last month’s OPEC+ oil production cut take on added significance in the wake of this week’s US midterm elections that have strengthened Joe Biden and weakened former President Donald J. Trump. Saudi insistence on a […]
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A first for Medtronic in Asia, the center will harness leading-edge healthcare technology to create a worldwide interconnected training and knowledge ecosystem for better patient outcomes SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 17 November 2022 – Medtronic plc (NYSE:MDT), a global leader in healthcare technology, today launched the Medtronic Customer eXperience Center (MCXC) in Singapore, leveraging innovative healthcare technologies across extended reality (XR), augmented and virtual realities, and […]
By Arun Srivastava Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray refutation to Rahul Gandhi’s remark on Savarkar might have been driven by political compulsions, but it has provided with the much awaited opportunity to BJP to humiliate and slander him as the true inheritor of the legacy of Balasaheb Thackeray. Vitriolic avowal from his trusted lieutenant Sanjay […]
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By Sushil Kutty After weeks of weaving through narrow roads and broad avenues, through how many states one had stopped counting, Congress leader and party rejuvenator Rahul Gandhi and his Bharat Jodo Yatra are in volatile territory; the peace of the southern vistas replaced by the cacophony of opposing narratives, sometimes quiet, oftentimes bold, and […]
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Enforcement Directorate chief SK Mishra has received another year-long extension, his third in the job. With this extension, he would complete five years in the post next year. Last year, Mishra became the first to receive a year’s extension in service. The notice came days after the government passed an executive order to extend tenure […]
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Western leaders moved to calm fears of a dangerous escalation in Russia’s war in Ukraine Wednesday, saying a missile blast in Poland was likely an accident, while Kyiv pushed back hard at the idea its anti-aircraft fire was to blame. Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky pointed the finger at Russia, but the United States, like NATO, […]
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By K Raveendran Supreme Court Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud has elucidated his concept of ‘equal‘ and ‘modern’ judiciary, free from colonial hangovers, in which there would not be any subordinate judges, often used in the context of district courts, but only judges of equal worth, irrespective of where they serve. The district judiciary is […]
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The premature release of 11 convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gangrape case has become part of political and electoral discourse in Gujarat in run-up to the next month’s Assembly polls with the opposition Congress mentioning about the episode in its poll manifesto and vowing to ensure justice to the survivor. A section of observers […]
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Launching a tirade against the BJP-led Union government, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said the Centre should do away with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime if it is unable to clear the dues it owed to the state. Banerjee wondered if she would have to “beg” to get the dues […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Bank employees of the country are again up in arms against their management against their alleged highhandedness. To oppose these, which allegedly include unlawful and unfair actions of the bank managements against the employees, All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) has already served a notice for all India bank strikes on […]
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By James M Dorsey Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hit all the right cords when he spoke virtually with his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal Bin Farhan, at a meeting of the China-Saudi Arabia High-Level Joint Committee last month. Wang told Bin Farhan: “China attaches great importance to the development of China-Saudi Arabia relations and puts […]
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ZUG, SWITZERLAND – Media OutReach – 11 November 2022 – pCloud, leading cloud storage service announced Singles Day celebration with a huge sale of its Lifetime Plans. Users in Asia have even more reasons to be excited about pCloud now. The cloud storage company was launched back in September 2013. Triggered by the growing need of cybersecurity, the young forward-thinking pCloud team has set his foot on […]
By Ashis Biswas In Meghalaya, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as a small entity within the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government, starts its pre-2023 Assembly poll campaign with a handicap against rival, the Trinamool Congress (TMC). Led by former Congress leader Mukul Sangma, the TMC has 12 members in the 60-strong state Assembly and […]
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BJP has attacked AAP over the inclusion of MLA Rajendra Pal Gautam as a star campaigner for the MCD polls. The saffron party accused AAP of taking an “anti-Hindu” stand. Gautam had resigned last month from the Arvind Kejriwal-led government after courting controversy over attending a religious conversion programme in which Hindu deities were allegedly […]
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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 11 November 2022 – Generali’s critical illness products, LionGuardian Beyond and LionGuardian PlusOne have recently received a top 5-Star Rating from 10Life in the Whole Life Critical Illness and Term Critical Illness categories respectively, affirming the well-rounded coverage and value these products offer to customers. Ms. Quinney Tang, Division Head, Product Development said, “We are delighted that our critical illness […]
The Congress on Wednesday attacked the BJP over the lotus being part of the G20 logo, saying that while it was shocking that the BJP’s election symbol was used, it knows by now that the PM and his party would not lose any opportunity to promote themselves. The attack by the Opposition party came a […]
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By L.S. Herdenia The Indian Journalists Union has expressed serious concern over persistent attacks on media and the shrinking space for independent media in the country. In a resolution passed at the two-day plenary session at Chennai last week, the union appealed to the democracy loving people in the country to raise their voice against […]
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday wondered whether the ‘charm’ of Prime Minister Narendra Modi led to the Morbi bridge collapse in Gujarat. Launching an attack on PM Modi on his maiden visit to Bengaluru after becoming the party president, the 80-year-old Congress veteran charged the Prime Minister with being mum on the issue of […]
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the issue of unemployment, saying the PM is handing over some thousand appointment letters when “millions of youth search for jobs”. Kharge said Modi came to power with a promise of two crore new jobs every year, but forget […]
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By Sushil Kutty The perception battle surrounding the Aam Aadmi Party and its assault on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s poll prospects in the state, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi cut his teeth in politics, may at the end of the day be nothing more than an expedition to snatch national party recognition from the Election […]
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By K Raveendran The disgraceful incident in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara in which a man ‘auctioned’ his daughters to repay his debt is a social evil that manifests in similar occurrences in parts of northern India from time to time. The incident attracted widespread condemnation and lowered the prestige of India as a modern nation in highly […]
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By Nitya Chakraborty India’s first Nobel Prize winner in Economics Prof: Amartya Sen has stepped into 89 on November 3 this year. It has been a long innings for him as a proactive global intellectual who has made deep impact on the thoughts of the thinking world wide apart from India covering the areas of […]
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By Sushil Kutty If nobody has noticed, Wayanad Congress Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi speaks in riddles and then walks away from them as if it was malarkey, meaningless talk, which made no difference to the task at hand, i.e., Opposition unity, and divesting the BJP of power, both from the Centre, and from the […]
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