REPORTAGE POLITICS More than 30 such websites and channels have emerged since 2018, making this another set of elections that could be won by social media. Himadri Ghosh MEDIA POLITICS Kolkata: As political parties in West Bengal gear up for the 2021 assembly election, more than 30 propaganda-spewing websites and video channels have emerged, all camouflaged […]
OPINION DIPLOMACY Ladakh LAC on the Boil, India Must Avoid Stirring Gilgit Baltistan Cauldron With Pakistan With Pakistan set to make Gilgit Baltistan its fifth province, any Indian move to wrest it militarily is sure to trigger an unwinnable two-front war. Sudheendra Kulkarni DIPLOMACY HISTORY This is the first in a three-part article on Gilgit […]
AGRICULTURE The ban on onion exports has proven that farmers, mostly small and marginal, will continue to hold the burden of reining food inflation. Siraj Hussain and Jugal Mohapatra AGRICULTURE On June 5, 2020, just after the COVID-19-induced all-India lockdown was being eased, the government promulgated The Essential Commodities (Amendment Ordinance, 2020). This move was lauded […]
By Reuters Staff NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India will demand foreign firms use more locally produced materials when working on government-run projects, a government order said late on Friday. Indian authorities have been aggressively promoting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship campaign of a self-reliant economy by urging domestic manufacturers to cut down on imports. The Indian […]
One of India’s biggest conglomerates has won the bid to build the country’s new parliament building. Tata Projects will construct the $117m (£90m) building in the heart of the national capital, Delhi. It will replace the existing colonial-era complex and is expected to be completed by 2022, when India celebrates 75 years of independence. Critics […]
International media criticised the Modi government over the lockdown which they said was announced with little planning or notice. By Akshita Jain As the number of coronavirus cases continue to rise in India and the tally crosses the 51-lakh mark, international media is calling out Prime Minister Narendra Modi over what they call his “denial of India’s Covid crisis”. […]
The medical body said the govt’s statement is an ‘abandonment of the national heroes who have stood up for our people’. By Akshita Jain After the Health Ministry said this week that the centre does not maintain data of healthcare workers who died due to Covid-19, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has published a list of […]
By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has doubled the budget for vital roads and bridges along the undemarcated border with China in recent years in response to Beijing’s rapid infrastructure development on its side, the Indian defence minister said on Tuesday. Troops of the two countries are locked in their most serious face-offs for […]
A prominent student leader has been arrested in connection with February’s deadly riots in Delhi. Delhi police have alleged that Umar Khalid was a “key conspirator” in the riots. Mr Khalid is among several prominent activists and student leaders who have been arrested. Human rights groups say that many activists, mostly Muslims, have been unfairly […]
Yechury has come under the police scanner in an investigation that has aimed to draw direct links between peaceful CAA protesters and rioters. The Wire Staff New Delhi: General secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Sitaram Yechury hit out at the Delhi police’s investigation into the February riots, in which several students and […]
