Category: World

By Nilanjan Banik and Guido Cozzi By the end of this century, planet earth may not be a liveable place, with the average temperature rising at least 2.5 Celsius higher than what it is now. This is according to the latest published UN Climate Change Report. With the climate change set to become worse, the […]

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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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The Congress hit out at the ruling BJP on Sunday over its Himachal Pradesh poll manifesto, terming it a “cut-copy-paste” of their five-year-old promises and in parts borrowed from the grand old party’s 2022 election document. BJP president J P Nadda on Sunday promised Uniform Civil Code (UCC), 33 per cent reservation for women in […]

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Fresh trouble seems to be on cards for Sonia and Rahul Gandhi as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is said to have found “major suspicious transactions” in Congress-owned Young Indian in its probe in the National Herald case, sources in the central agency told News18. Transactions of around Rs 4-5 crore found to have been done through shell […]

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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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Although the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) scooped a win in the Munugode by-election after a fierce neck-and-neck battle with the BJP, the real story from the bypoll was that of the Congress. In a state that was once a major source of its electoral strength, powering its two consecutive terms at the centre in […]

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Tirupati’s world famous Lord Venkateswara temple’s net worth of over Rs 2.5 lakh crore (about $30 billion) is more than the market capitalisation of IT services firm Wipro, food and beverage company Nestle and state-owned oil giants ONGC and IOC. Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, keeper of the temple dedicated to Tirupati’s presiding deity, for the first […]

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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan has escalated the standoff with the Left democratic Front (LDF) Government by raking up the  gold smuggling case to spite Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan. In an interaction with presspersons in New Delhi, Khan said he had not interfered in governance.  “But now when I see all […]

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By Medea Benjamin and Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan Immoral, illegal, archaic, coercive, intimidating, criminal, absurd, reckless, brutal — even genocidal. These were some of the adjectives used by global leaders at the United Nations as they took to the podium at the United Nations General Assembly to rail against US policy toward Cuba. Then yesterday, […]

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A special court on Friday held BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi and four others guilty of violation of the model code of conduct during the 2012 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. The special court for cases involving MPs and MLAs later ordered their release on probation for a period of six months. Joshi was a […]

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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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Former chief minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday warned against the return of the dark era of 1980s in Punjab, saying “the way things are unfolding in the state today is quite worrisome” and cautioned the AAP government against any “laxity”. He also condemned the “complete failure” on the part of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) […]

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The UK’s first Indian-origin Prime Minister, who is also an observant Hindu, believes the landmark says something important about the state of diversity in Britain, according to an interview published on Saturday. The 42-year-old Sunak also revealed that he refused to step aside for ex-PM Boris Johnson in last month’s leadership battle, convinced his track […]

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The Centre has told the Delhi High Court that the national anthem ‘Jana Gana Mana’ and the national song ‘Vande Mataram’ “stand on the same level” and citizens should show equal respect to both. While unlike the national anthem there are no penal provisions or official instructions about singing or playing ‘Vande Mataram’, the song […]

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By K Raveendran Soaring international gas prices in recent weeks have caused much concern in consumer countries like India, but the latest trends indicate that power prices may be reversing course. Although Indian gas prices, particularly in terms of supplies for vehicles as well as cooking, have remained moderated, thanks to government intervention, consumers in […]

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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 Dr. Gyan Pathak The month of October this year in which fell the two great Indian festivals – Dussehra and Diwali – failed to bring much expected happiness to the common people of India. Rather, it turned India’s job market much more perilous that only a month ago in September. Unemployment surged from 6.43 […]

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By Arun Srivastava Certainly it is not less than bizarre that the Narendra Modi administration which has been using the ED, CBI and IT to terrorise and coerce his opponents to fall in line, only a couple of days back asked the top Railway officials to direct Railway Protection Force to issue notices to the […]

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With Parliament not in session, the battle between the opposition and government has shifted to the parliamentary committees. At a meeting of the parliament committee of home affairs on DONER, i.e., the Northeast development project, the opposition had a heated confrontation with the Bharatiya Janata Party-led chairman. This was after the government secretary’s presentation said […]

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Music label MRT Music, which owns the rights to the tracks of “KGF Chapter 2” in Hindi​, filed a copyright infringement complaint on Friday against Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Supriya Shrinate and Jairam Ramesh for illegally using the soundtrack of the hit South Indian film in campaign videos of ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’. The Bangalore-based record […]

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Ahead of the Gujarat Assembly polls, former MLA Indranil Rajguru quit the Aam Aadmi Party and joined the Congress on Friday and alleged that the Arvind Kejriwal-led outfit was working as a “B-team” of the BJP in the state. Rajguru, who had joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) after quitting the Congress in April this […]

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Veteran Congress leader Karan Singh on Friday hit back at party colleague Jairam Ramesh for criticising his recent article on Jammu and Kashmir’s accession to India and said the “unsavoury remarks” regarding his father were “unacceptable”. In a statement, Singh said he had hoped his views will be taken in the spirit in which he […]

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Congress leader Sachin Pilot has written a letter to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot demanding constitution of a board in the state government in the name of local deity Veer Tejaji. Veer Tejaji was a legendary Rajasthani folk hero, also considered to be one of the incarnations of Lord Shiva and worshipped as a deity […]

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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 Sushil Kutty Five years back in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat, the BJP and the Congress were face to face and people were asking the question “what does Gujarat and Himachal mean for the two national parties? In 2017, Aam Aadmi Party was limited to Delhi and nobody thought much of AAP other than to […]

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By Prabir Purkayastha The Morbi pedestrian suspension bridge over the Machchhu River collapsed on October 30, leading to the confirmed death of 141 persons and injuries to more than 100. In this column, I will not repeat what is widely known regarding one of the worst bridge disasters in India. The question that needs to […]

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By Dr. Soma Marla Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee, GOI (GEAC) has permitted on October 18 the environmental release of genetically-modified (GM) mustard. Being the first food crop, the studies by expert question the environmental and biosafety as well as human health risks associated with hasty government approval. Gory experience of GM cotton, which resulted in […]

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Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) supremo, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has appealed to all the constitutional institutions in the country to help ‘save democracy’ from the hands of the BJP which have been ruling the country for the past eight-half years. He alleged that the BJP’s main motto is to dethrone the non-BJP ruled […]

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) revealed that jailed Trinamool Congress leader from West Bengal’s Birbhum, Anubrata Mondal, had won Rs 1 Crore in lottery in January, ahead of his jail sentence. The shop owner identified as Bapi Gangopadhyay who issued the lottery to Mondal was summoned by CBI to the Nizam Palace on Wednesday […]

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With Punjab registering a two-year-high daily farm fire tally on Thursday, stubble burning is turning into a major political issue yet again even as the national capital seems to be getting choked with no let-up in the incidents. On Thursday, Punjab registered close to 2,700 farm fires, a significant increase compared to the same-day figures […]

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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal will announce today the name of the party’s chief ministerial candidate for the next month’s Gujarat Assembly elections, party office-bearers said. The candidate will be named on the basis of opinion submitted to the party by the people of the state, they said. Those in the race for […]

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Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi handed over lakhs of houses to the poor as part of an ambitious government drive, at least 75 homes constructed under the same scheme have gone ‘missing’ in Madhya Pradesh’s Satna. The houses had been constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana which hosted a virtual ‘grih pravesh‘ ceremony […]

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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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The Election Commission today issued a clarification on why the Gujarat poll schedule announcement for the upcoming assembly elections were delayed and dismissed all allegations of any kind of partiality. “We announced the election dates 110 days ahead of the expiry of the Gujarat assembly. And there will be a 72 days’ gap between the […]

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