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Indigenous residents protest huge coal mine plan in India0
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- October 21, 2020
West Bengal government’s dream to develop the world’s second-largest coal mine becomes a nightmare as elections loom Residents from indigenous communities protesting the plan to start a coal mine in Birbhum district of West Bengal, India [Image by: Gurvinder Singh] Gurvinder Singh, October 9, 2020 Sunita Hansda almost broke down at the thought of
Bangladesh’s precipitous decline in online freedoms0
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- October 21, 2020
Netra News Oct 19 · 2020 Screenshot taken from Freedom House website The Freedom House has published its set of 2020 country reports on online freedom around the world — and for anyone interested to read about the increasingly precipitous decline of online freedom in Bangladesh, this well researched report (which references Netra News’s articles on a
Can China be a peacemaker in Afghanistan?0
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- October 21, 2020
Naweed Jafari China has so far stayed on the sidelines of the intra-Afghantalks, but it could play a big role in ending the conflict. The Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan, near the border of China (Pe3check/Getty Images) Published 20 Oct 2020 “China would be welcomed as an arbitrator in negotiations [for peace in Afghanistan] and should
‘India’s Divisive Politics, Intolerance a Major Obstacle to Economic Growth’: Kaushik Basu0
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- October 20, 2020
The Wire India 20 October 2020 The former Chief Economic Advisor and World Bank Chief Economist tells Karan Thapar that he expects the economy to shrink by around 12% this financial year. Economist Kaushik Basu. Illustration: The Wire Karan Thapar New Delhi: In an interview where he seems to express greater concern about the impact
Myanmar: Does supporting election justify exclusion of Rohingyas?0
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- October 20, 2020
The Daily Star October 20, 2020 EU-Myanmar Human Rights Dialogue A Rohingya refugee is seen in Balukhali refugee camp at dawn near Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, March 28, 2018. Photo: Clodagh Kilocyne/ Reuters Kamal Ahmed The European Union, barely three weeks before the general election in Myanmar, held a bilateral dialogue on human rights with the
Hindus for Human Rights: My Rama is not the same as their Rama0
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- October 19, 2020
Hindus who oppose India’s turn toward religious zealotry must speak out, lest secular India becomes a Hindu Pakistan. On December 4th, 1992, my dad was traveling on a train from Andhra Pradesh to Varanasi to deposit his father’s ashes. The train was unusually crowded. Hundreds of people dressed in saffron robes packed the train, talking
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The Corona Pandemic: Lessons for the Future0
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- October 18, 2020
by Rajesh Kumar Sinha 18 October 2020 The ongoing devastating Coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping the world like never before has already witnessed deaths crossing one million and infections touching close to thirty-nine million. And if experts and scientists are to be believed, its ferocity is far from over, and maybe a vast number
Re-birth of Untouchability- Dalit women during COVID- 190
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- October 17, 2020
by Ali Saha 18 October 2020 Abstract The article discusses the violation of Dalit women’s rights during COVID-19. Pertaining to the ideological hegemony of caste-gender nexus, the pandemic has created another layer of oppression for the Dalit women who were already victims of the triple oppressions of poverty, being female and being female Dalits.
India: Ad Celebrating inter-faith confluence Ëkatvam Faces Outrage – Isn’t it time to rewrite the code of ethics in commercial speech?0
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- October 17, 2020
by Dr. Bhargavi D Hemmige 17 October 2020 Regardless of Indian advertising has evolved to where it is today, we live in a time where even 43 seconds of communal harmony hurts. Yes, the discussion is about the recent advertisement by Tanishq from Titan, TATA Group, which was released last week that
India’s Back to Back Missile Tests and the Contemporary Notions of Nuclear Deterrence Equilibrium in South Asia0
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- October 17, 2020
By: Haris Bilal Malik 17 October 2020 The dynamics of nuclear deterrence in South Asia have been quite complex since the overt nuclearization of the region initiated by India. It had appeared as more of a strategic compulsion for Pakistan to maintain a credible nuclear deterrent posture to overcome the conventional and
Partisan Appointment to Constitutional Bodies Bad for Democracy & Good-governance in Bangladesh0
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- October 16, 2020
by Anisur Rahman* 16 October 2020 Bangladesh has got a new Attorney General. President Md. Abdul Hamid has appointed Advocate A M Amin Uddin as the new attorney general since the post was vacated due to the death of former attorney general Mahbubey Alam a few weeks back. Amin Uddin, a senior
IMRAN KHAN’S ADDRESS AT UNGA 75th SESSION: EXPOSING INDIA’S FASCIST IDEOLOGY0
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- October 16, 2020
By Sher Bano 16 October 2020 On 25th September 2020, Prime Minister Imran Khan virtually addressed the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Similar to his last year’s address at the UNGA 74th session, this has been a strong projection of Pakistan’s appropriate diplomatic discourse on the Kashmir issue given the
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Sheikh Matlub Ali: An Odia Icon of Hindu Muslim Unity
by Bhabani Shankar Nayak 11 October 2020 Amidst the names of politicians crowded the columns of power corridors in history but in contemporary political and cultural firmaments of India, nobody can match Sheikh Matlub Ali of Odisha. He was born on the 16th of December 1942 in a village called Dharoshyam Sundarpur, Sukleswar
Bangladesh – Family succession: After Sheikh Hasina
The Awami League is a family business — who in the family will succeed Sheikh Hasina? David Bergman October 8, 2020 Sheikh Hasina (L) with her sister Sheikh Rehana (R). Photo: Paul Davey/Alamy Live News At 73, Sheikh Hasina may have many years still to go as the leader of the Awami League, a position she
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