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Dual Debacle: Evaluating India’s Pseudo Democracy and Declining Economy0
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- May 26, 2020
24th May 2020 by S. Arif India’s revisionist regime under Narendra Modi is capitalizing upon every available opportunity to take a strike against the Muslim community, discrediting the fact that they constitute the largest minority in India. The religious fanatics are employing one tactic after another to appease the Hindu majority by taking aim at
Pigeon is arrested in India on suspicion of being a Pakistan spy0
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- May 26, 2020
The pigeon was captured near the India-Pakistan border after flying into a house The alleged spy had been painted pink and carried a numbered ring on its foot Police in India will keep the bird in custody until they have finished investigating By SAM BAKER FOR MAILONLINE 26 May 2020 www.dailymail.co.uk A pigeon has been handed
Lines on water cannot save Bay of Bengal fisheries0
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- May 26, 2020
Countries along the Bay of Bengal have finalised their EEZs, but in the absence of active cooperation, fishers continue to be jailed in other countries while overfishing continues Fishing in Bangladesh’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the Bay of Bengal [image by: Mohammad Arju] Mohammad Arju, May 15, 2020 Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar have agreed
Cyclone Amphan leaves millions homeless in India0
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- May 25, 2020
Even five days after the disaster, villages remain cut off without transport, electricity and communications Saji Thomas May 25, 2020 Thousands of Catholics are among 13 million people who have lost homes, crops and livestock after a powerful cyclone ravaged the eastern Indian coast. Some 17,000 Catholics of Baruipur Diocese in West Bengal state were among
China Abandons the Strategy of Persuasion and Compromise0
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- May 25, 2020
IDN-InDepthNews | Analysis That Matters Viewpoint by Vijay Gokhale 25 May 2020 This article by a former Foreign Secretary of India and a former Ambassador to China first appeared on The Hindu on 20 March 2020. It is republished because of an insider’s view of the changing nature of China’s diplomacy characterised by unilateralism and
NPT’s 50th Anniversary Encourages 17 Signatories To Remind Five Nuclear-Weapons States of Their Commitments0
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- May 25, 2020
IDN-InDepthNews | Analysis That Matters Photo: Every five years since it entered into force in 1970, the states parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) have held a conference to review its operation and to come to agreement on detailed language assessing the treaty’s various provisions. Credit: Dean Calma CC: BY-SA By UN Bureau 25
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Indian Muslim at the Crossroads0
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- May 25, 2020
by M.A. Sofi 25 May 2020 Need for looking within and catching the enemy by the jugular Notwithstanding the collective wish to explain it away, the ugly truth remains that a malicious campaign has been underway, at least over the past six years where Indian Muslims have been pushed to be on the receiving end
Sacrifice, loss and the smokescreen of morality in Kashmir0
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- May 24, 2020
by Muneeb Yousuf 24 May 2020 The armed conflict in Kashmir entered into its 27th year this fall, at the time when this article was written in 2016. There are, to invoke Maya Angelou, so many layers and so many perspectives to talk about. Yet my mind drifts to something very miniature, a common man’s
Masterplan for Guwahati Metropolitan Area- 2025 and Sustainable Environment0
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- May 23, 2020
by Pratiksha Baruah* and Rajendra Prasad Naik** 23 May 2020 ABSTRACT Urbanization is a process that leads to the growth of cities, drastically changes the characteristics of previously natural areas, causing various environmental impacts. Guwahati is blessed with rivers, waterbodies and a number of hillocks. However, rapid, unplanned and organic urban growth in Guwahati has
GOA STATEHOOD DAY0
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- May 23, 2020
by Shri Eduardo Faleiro 23 May 2020 On May 30 we celebrate the Goa Statehood Day. Goa was liberated from the colonial rule in December 1961. After Liberation a major controversy arose as to whether it should remain a separate territory or should merge into a neighbouring State, Maharashtra or Mysore. In 1967, an Opinion
Bangladesh’s Covid-19 future is in the government’s hands0
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- May 23, 2020
As appeared in the Netra News — নেত্র নিউজ The initial projections seem overblown, but whether they remain so depends on how the government deals with the lockdown. by David Bergman 22 May 2020 When the first epidemiological projections of the numbers of people who could die in Bangladesh from the Covid-19 virus started to
Dispute between Nepal and India Worsen over Territory of Kalapani0
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- May 23, 2020
by Hari Prasad Shrestha 23 May 2020 In his address to the House of Representatives, Prime Minister of Nepal, KP Sharma Oli, in response to the opposition lawmakers’ queries about the government’s annual policy and program, he remembered the motto of India’s state emblem, “Satyameva Jayate” (“Only truth triumphs”), and the four-head lion figure of
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Indian Navy benefits from Pentagon paranoia over China
US government in a hurry to get new sub-hunting helicopters into the hands of the Indian Navy by Dave Makichuk May 20, 2020 To say the Pentagon is concerned about China’s military expansion would be an understatement — just ask the Indian Navy. According to a report by Paul McLeary for Breaking Defense, the US