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India’s International Allies Urged to Work for Restoration of Statehood of Kashmir0
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- August 10, 2020
Clarion India August 10, 2020 A deserted street is seen through barbwire set up as a blockade during curfew in Srinagar, on Aug. 6, 2019. — AP WASHINGTON — The International Crisis Group (ICG) has urged India’s international allies to “strongly encourage it to restore Kashmiri statehood, free detained politicians, and end security forces’ abuses
Such A Temple Would Not Have Been Acceptable To Ram And Should Not Be Acceptable To A Common Hindu0
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- August 9, 2020
Countercurrents by Sandeep Pandey — August 8, 2020 Co-Written by Arundhati Dhuru and Sandeep Pandey Ram has been described as Maryada Purushottam, the most virtuous among men. He left his kingdom merely because he didn’t want to hurt the sentiments of his step mother and went on a 14 years exile. It was not in his character
Delhi Riots: Time to Criminalise Religion-Based Slurs0
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- August 9, 2020
Clarion India 8 August 2020 Thick smoke billowed in the air and mobs roamed unchecked through the streets, pelting stones, vandalising shops and threatening locals, as fresh violence broke out in northeast Delhi on February 26. — AP Adv. Ghiasuddin | Clarion India ON March 18, the Fact-Finding Committee (FFC) constituted by the Delhi Minorities Commission
How Long will the Indian Poor be Invisible?0
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- August 9, 2020
It was ok for all of us to just label them as “migrant workers” and take shelter in the political correctness of this term since it might so easily have been, “these poor people”. Scharada Dubey 08 Aug 2020 The narrative of development is often lost in nationalistic fervor. The Indian poor are invisibilized in
Nagasaki observes 75 years of atomic bombing0
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- August 9, 2020
New Age Agence France-Presse . Nagasaki, Japan | Aug 09,2020 Doves fly during a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, at the Nagasaki Peace Park on Sunday. — AFP photo The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday commemorated the 75th anniversary of its destruction by a US atomic bomb, with
Parliamentary elections have put Lankan Tamil politics at the cross roads0
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- August 9, 2020
While the moderate TNA will have to do a lot of tight rope walking, the radical Tamil nationalist groups have to prove that it can do what TNA could not. And that’s going to be very hard and the consequence of failure will be total rejection in the next elections. by Editor August 10, 2020 Newsin
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Controlled media in India spreading fake reports about Nepal0
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- August 7, 2020
An image in the Times of India depicting the Nepal PM as the problem and not India by Hari Prasad Shrestha 7 August 2020 There is a major hidden cause behind the bitter relationship of India with almost all its neighbors. The retired club of seasoned Indian bureaucrats of the Ministry
Sheikh Hasina continues the heroic offensive against unethical corruption0
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- August 7, 2020
by M A Hossain 7 August 2020 In the last 11 years, under the strong leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh has emerged as a role model to the world. There has been an influx of groups that have been immersed in ideologies that are detached from the morality and ideology of
South Asia’s Last Resort: Is China’s One Belt-One Road Initiative the Only Road to Prosperity?0
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- August 6, 2020
by Anthony Howell 6 August 2020 China has made no secret of its want for economic expansion. It has patiently and painstakingly marched towards this end goal by establishing both transnational land and sea trade routes, mimicking the historical “Silk Roads” used centuries ago, connecting China to the Middle East, Africa, and Europe;
India: Dear Liberals! Lets not Lose Hope So Soon!!0
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- August 6, 2020
by Dr. Syed Tahseen Raza 6 August 2020 It’s always not a good idea to lose hope soon. Otherwise, it will be a quickening of disaster. Let us not yield so soon. There are reasons, compelling ones too to feel so. Yes, it’s not easy to see a former Supreme Court judge take
Nuclear Deterrence Policy Risk Assessment in South Asia0
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- August 3, 2020
by Mian Hameed 3 August 2020 We must profusely campaign against the selective implementation of the UNSC Rule of Law for our international quarrels. I, as a successor to others, have equally reduced to speak of some externality—the risk from nuclear weapons in the region, fundamentally resulting from the root cause—injustices. In
Barakah- UAE’s harbinger of scientific dominance in West Asia and regional Politics0
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- August 3, 2020
by Talha Mujibi 3 August 2020 On the occasion of Eid ul Azha, Aug 1, United Arab Emirates becomes the first Arab country to successfully launch a nuclear power plant, Barakah, using nuclear energy as a source for sustainable energy requirements. It is a series of international accomplishments by UAE, a jewel in its crown
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Neighbours challenge political Hindutva’s Ram agenda
N Sathiya Moorthy 24 July 2020 Indian claims to the Ram story and ownership could be challenged from more places than one, says N Sathiya Moorthy. Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli’s recent diatribe that the birthplace of Hindu god Ram is located in his country and not in Ayodhya, need not be a
The Top Brass is Shattered in Bangladesh: Aftermath of a Retired General’s Interview
Lieutenant General (retired) Chowdhury Hasan Sarwardy (left) and General Aziz Ahmed, the Chief of Army Staff (right) by Taj Hashmi 20 July 2020 Although neither the puppet and illegitimate government of Sheikh Hasina nor the pro-Indian Deep State, which has been running Bangladesh for the last twelve years, gathered enough courage to broadcast
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