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India’s Quest to Dominate the South Asian Cyberspace: Challenges for Pakistan0
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- August 28, 2020
By: Basma Khalil 28 August 2020 Since the advent of technological innovations in warfare, ‘Cyberspace’ has considerably emerged as the new battlefield for states. The South Asian region has also been impacted by this complex warfare domain. This is primarily because India aspires to dominate the regional domain of cyberspace. India has a
READ MOREModi’s love for animals and politics of hate0
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- August 27, 2020
by Bhabani Shankar Nayak 28 August 2020 As Indians are sinking amidst the Coronavirus pandemic, the makeup dependent, camera addicted, and selfie-savvy Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi is busy with sharing his multitasking photos, his photography skills and his love for animals, birds, and wildlife. The utter economic and social crisis does not disturb
READ MOREBangladesh: India’s Sudden Concern Over its Eastside Disciple 0
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- August 27, 2020
India’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs Harsh V. Shringla’s first visit out of India since COVID lockdown began August 18, 2020 by Ahmad U Shihab 28 August 2020 “No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave” —Alexander Hamilton Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Indian Secretary of the
READ MORECOVID-19: AN OPPORTUNITY TO CURE AIR POLLUTION IN INDIA0
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- August 27, 2020
by Nishant Tiwari 27 August 2020 Due to forced restrictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the level of pollution in cities across the country dropped dramatically in a few days, magnetizing discussions about the lockdown as the effective alternative measures to implement to control the air pollution. In 2019, Delhi was ranked as one of
READ MORENon-consensual sharing of sexually explicit content online: An analysis of existing safeguards and the way ahead0
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- August 27, 2020
by Shubhangi Singh 27 August 2020 Introduction In 2004, an unconsented sharing of a private video involving underage students of an elite school in Delhi alarmed the entire nation as the phrase “MMS Scandal” entered into the collective consciousness of the people of India for the first time. The sensationalization
READ MOREAnalyzing the Decade of Non-proliferation Trends in South Asia0
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- August 27, 2020
by Hananah Zarrar 27 August 2020 It has been more than two decades since Pakistan and India had carried out their nuclear tests. Since then, South Asia has come to the fore as a uniquely challenging nuclearized region of the world. The striking most aspect of this nuclearized region is the
READ MOREMaldives: Ruling MDP helps Yameen’s Opposition, forces ‘GMR moment’ onto India ties?0
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- August 26, 2020
N Sathiya Moorthy 26 August 2020 Jailed former President Abdulla Yameen’s Opposition PPM-PNC coalition has called for nation-wide protests outside Covid-hit capital region of Greater Male, charging incumbent Ibrahim Solih’s Government with ‘selling off national assets’ for development loans from neighbouring countries (read: India?), and demanding the incumbent’s resignation. The call comes after their less-publicised July protests, demanding
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Factory Schools from the Industrial Revolution to the KISS University in 20200
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- August 26, 2020
by Bhabani Shankar Nayak 26 August 2020 The executive committee of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)’s has decided to drop the KISS University in Odisha as the co-host of the World Anthropology Congress-2023. The decision is driven by the argument that KISS University is a factory school. The decision
READ MOREInside Xinjiang: Unfolding Demographic Genocide of Uighurs in the People’s Republic of China0
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- August 26, 2020
by Utkarsh 27 August 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare shortcomings of the capitalist and institutionally racists system that governs the world but its supersede in the media has drawn attention away from the Human Rights Abuses that continues to take place. One of the most muddling illustrations of this is China’s mass
READ MOREBook review: War and Secession: Pakistan, India and the Creation of Bangladesh0
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- August 26, 2020
Author: Richard Sisson & Leo E. Rose, University of California Press, Berkeley, California 1990 Paperback, 338 pages, $23.97 on Amazon, ISBN-13: 978-0520076655 Review by: Arnold Zeitlin 27 August 2020 War and Secession remain 30 years after its first publication, the go-to book for a concise, yet comprehensive account of the events that led
READ MOREDemocracy Is Important But Is It Working?0
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- August 26, 2020
by M Adil Khan — August 26, 2020 If you think that democracy is about ‘government of the people by the people and for the people’, you are dead wrong, not these days. The way democracy has evolved in recent years in both developed as well as in developing countries, it has become more of
READ MORERohingya refugees becoming Palestinians of Asia0
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- August 26, 2020
Three years after Myanmar drove hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas into Bangladesh they are no closer to repatriation by Bertil Lintner August 26, 2020 A file photo of Rohingya refugees protesting against a disputed repatriation program at the Unchiprang refugee camp near Teknaf, Bangladesh. Photo: AFP/ Dibyangshu Sarkar BANGKOK – Three years after images of
READ MOREBIO-WEAPONS CONVENTION-A CRITICAL ANALYSIS AND SUGGESTIONS0
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- August 25, 2020
by Shivam Mishra and Aman Vijay Bhatt 26 August 2020 BIO-WEAPONS CONVENTION-A CRITICAL ANALYSIS AND SUGGESTIONS [PART-I] In the first part of this bipartite blog series, the authors have put forth the urgent need of considering the potential Bio-terror attack in the future by the countries while supporting the voice of
READ MOREMorality and Immorality in Contemporary Politics0
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- August 25, 2020
Allegory with a portrait of a Venetian senator (Allegory of the morality of earthly things), attributed to Tintoretto, 1585 Source : Wikipedia by Bhabani Shankar Nayak 24 August 2020 In the world of ideology free zone of politics, the question ‘of morality and immorality in popular and mainstream political traditions’ is becoming irrelevant. The
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