Category: World

  By Arun Kumar Shrivastav India’s North-East has seen several major infrastructure projects in the past few years. The latest is a 57 km broad gauge railway line between India’s Kokrajhar and Bhutan’s Gelephu, for which the work is going to start this year. This would be Bhutan’s first railway project and one of the […]

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By James M Dorsey An official visit to Xinjiang to assess the fate of Turkic Muslims in the troubled north-western Chinese Province is a risky proposition by any definition. Even so, it would be worth the risk if China and Turkey could agree on the terms of a visit. The problem is that the terms […]

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The Eknath Shinde government in Maharashtra is on ventilator support and will fall by February, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said here on Saturday. He said if the “judiciary is not pressured, then 16 MLAs (of the Shinde faction, which is also called Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena) will be disqualified”. The case pertaining to the […]

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In a mega exercise to revive vigilante groups armed by the government to defend against terrorist attacks, revamp of erstwhile Village Defence Committees is going on aggressively in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri. There are already 5,000 armed members in the district and more villagers are registering to get weapons from the police. The committees have […]

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Amid a cold wave prevailing in parts of northern India, Safdarjung in Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 1.9 degrees Celsius, the India Meteorological Department said on Sunday. Meanwhile, Aya Nagar also in Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 2.6 degrees Celsius, while Lodhi Road recorded 2.8 degrees Celsius and Palam 5.2 degrees Celsius, the […]

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The crucial Joshimath-Malari border road in Chamoli district which connects the China border has developed cracks at several places due to landslides in Joshimath. Strategically important Joshimath-Malari border road is subsiding near the Malari taxi stand. Earlier today, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami inspected the town and conducted physical inspections of the land subsidence-affected […]

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By Sushil Kutty The Lt. Governor, Delhi, VK Saxena, acts as if he’s a power unto himself. But everybody knows his loyalty to the Union Ministry of Home is absolute. The Delhi Government is at the mercy of frequent interventions, call them interferences. And if Delhi is suffering, it is because of this unwavering subservience […]

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By Ashis Biswas In Tripura, the main contending formations in the coming Assembly elections have stepped up efforts to secure an alliance with the pace-setting tribal Tipra Motha (TM) party. So far, the TM has maintained an equidistance from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)/IPFT alliance and the Left front/Congress grouping. Observers find such tactics […]

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By K Raveendran 2023 may well be a year of gold. This is because despite several negatives the yellow metal has outperformed everything else. And with the New Year expected to unravel all that traditionally has worked in favour of gold, this asset class appears to be non-stoppable right now. IMF has warned that a […]

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By Harihar Swarup The United Nation has declared 2023 as the International Year of Millets. Since that was at the initiative of India, which also accounts for a fifth of the world’s millets production, Narendra Modi government would be expected to do something different this year to promote these “nutria-cereals” – going beyond just spreading […]

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Punjab Horticulture Minister Fauja Singh Sarari resigned from Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s cabinet on Saturday, months after an audio clip surfaced in which he was allegedly heard “fixing a deal to extort money”. Sarari sent his resignation to Bhagwant Mann, who is learnt to have accepted it, according to sources. He cited personal reasons as […]

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The Himachal Pradesh cabinet of the newly elected Congress government in the hill state would be expanded in the next one or two days, top party sources said on Friday. Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu is in the national capital and held deliberations with top party leaders on the expansion of the state cabinet, the […]

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Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi who was admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here on Wednesday with a viral infection is stable and is recovering well, doctors attending on her said on Friday. “Mrs Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson UPA, who is admitted at the hospital for a viral respiratory infection is stable and is making a […]

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The caste-based census began in Bihar today. Asserting that caste-based census will benefit all sections of the society, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said the purpose of the exercise is to carry out developmental work for the people who are deprived. “The caste-based headcount will be beneficial for all… It will enable the government […]

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Mumbai businessman Shankar Mishra, wanted by the police for urinating on an elderly woman on an Air India flight in November, was today arrested from Bengaluru and brought to Delhi. On November 26, Shankar Mishra, allegedly drunk, unzipped and urinated on the woman. He was allowed to leave without any action. Air India filed a […]

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A temple collapsed in the Himalayan town of Joshimath in Uttarakhand on Friday evening, heightening fears among residents who have been camping out in the cold as over 500 houses and other structures have developed cracks due to the soil shifting. A team of experts and scientists is conducting a door-to-door survey and Chief Minister Pushkar Singh […]

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By Prabhat Patnaik India’s current account deficit for the second quarter (July-September) of 2022-23 has reached a massive $36.4 billion which is 4.4 per cent of the gross domestic product, higher than at any time in the last nine years. It is only in October-December 2012 that the absolute level of the current deficit had […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak South Asia still needs to prepare for the worst since there are increasing signs of geo-economic fragmentations. Expenditure needs to meet the Sustainable Development Goals; equity needs to be improved through labour market and social protection reforms as well as gender policies, appropriate measures needed to mitigate and adapt to climate […]

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By Sushil Kutty Union Home Minister Amit Shah has spoken. And the timing is telling, just in time for a clutch of assembly elections in 2023, and the big one in 2024. Shah announced that a grand Ram temple will be inaugurated in Ayodhya on January 1, 2024. That means the Bharatiya Janata Party will […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra There is a chance of a massive rejig in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet after January 14, when the ongoing Kharmas period, which is believed and considered to be inauspicious as per the Hindu calendar concludes . According to sources, Prime Minister Narendra Modi may expand his Cabinet and add leaders […]

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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday hit out at the BJP and said that it was the Congress that had nurtured democracy for the last 70 years and made it possible for Prime Minister Modi to achieve his post despite his humble origins. Kharge was in Bihar’s Banka district to flag off a more than 1,000 […]

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar hinted that his proposed country-wide tour for forging Opposition unity to take on the BJP in the next Lok Sabha polls may take place after the budget session of the assembly next month. Kumar had earlier said several times that he was working hard to unite the Opposition parties ahead […]

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Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi sparked a fresh controversy when he commented that the name of the State “Thamizhagam would be more appropriate than Tamil Nadu.” Following the Governor’s comments, Twitter buzzed with #TamilNadu where DMK IT wing and Dravidian party supporters started to post #TamilNadu. Meanwhile, DMK Treasurer and MP TR Balu slammed Governor […]

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The next Mayor of Delhi will be chosen today amid an escalation of a tussle between the ruling Aam Aadmi Party and Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena. The BJP, which lost the civic polls after three terms in power, has claimed that they will win the post. AAP has fielded Shelly Oberoi for the top post […]

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who was in Mumbai on a two-day visit in the lead up to a big Global Investors Summit being hosted by his government in February this year, has returned with investment proposals worth Rs 5 lakh crore, the state government has said in a statement Adityanath met top industry […]

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By Subrata Majumder Concerns have been looming large on the sanctions on Russian oil, which is heading for another major oil shock in the world. Russia is the second biggest exporter of oil in the world. EU is the biggest importer of oil from Russia. EU has prohibited maritime exports of Russian oil and levied […]

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By Prakash Karat India abstained on a resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 31, 2022 that asked International Court of Justice (ICJ) to render its opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s prolonged occupation of Palestinian territories. The resolution was passed with 87 countries supporting and 26 opposing.  India abstained along […]

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By Krishna Jha In 1947, when we attained freedom, our dream was to build a country for ourselves without any inequality. There was to be fundamental rights ensured in the Constitution. Directive principles of the state policy in the Constitution promised us all that only a socialist democracy offers. Our preamble says that we, the […]

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By Sushil Kutty Himachal won, and Gujarat lost and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has done what previous Congress presidents have done, i.e., set up a committee to do an autopsy, find out why Gujarat was lost. In Himachal Pradesh, the Congress posted a very satisfactory win though the vote-share wasn’t too north of that of […]

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The Congress on Wednesday set up a three-member fact-finding committee to evaluate the party’s performance in the recently concluded Gujarat assembly elections and suggest corrective measures. The committee will be chaired by former Maharashtra minister Nitin Raut, who also heads the party’s SC department. The panel has been asked to submit its report to the […]

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said the purpose of the party’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ is to remove fear from the people’s minds and highlight issues like price rise and unemployment. Amid raging talks about his wearing T-shirt in the winter during the yatra, Gandhi said the media is highlighting his attire but “taking no […]

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Senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh on Wednesday lashed out at the BJP, accusing the saffron party of “shielding” one of the accused in the sensational Sultanpuri car dragging case. He also demanded to know why the accused, Manoj Mittal, was not yet removed from the party. In a shocking incident, a 20-year-old woman was killed […]

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The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) will send additional 18 companies to Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of recent killings of civilians in two fresh terror attacks in Rajouri district, sources familiar with the development said. The 18 CRPF companies – approximately 1,800 personnel – will be rushed to the Jammu region for deployment […]

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The names of people caught through decoy operations in corruption cases cannot be made public till they are found guilty in trial, officials of the Anti-Corruption Bureau in Rajasthan have been told in a controversial order. The state’s opposition BJP has attacked the Ashok Gehlot government, saying this is evidence that the government is supporting […]

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