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Many Questions Remain Over The Demand For Use Of Hijabs By Muslim Girls
By Sushil Kutty Iran’s ruling clerics are up to their necks in protests for defending a piece of cloth they insist women should wear to keep their dignities intact. What’s wrong with that? The ‘hijab’ is such an innocuous wraparound. And it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, not when...
Fresh Land Survey Initiated By Soren In Jharkhand Is Leading To Battle With BJP
By Arun Srivastava The new face of Adivasi identity, Hemant Soren, son of the legendry tribal Guruji, Shibu Soren , has blown the war trumpet against the BJP’s design to impair the sensibility of Adivasi individuality and turn Jharkhand into the colony of the capitalists advocating the Hindutva political...
Risks Of Kessler Syndrome Is High As Space Debris Accumulate
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With Earth’s Orbits getting crowded, the risks of Kessler syndrome – a catastrophic and irreversible chain reaction of on-orbit collisions between debris and operational satellites –is becoming high, even though according to the most recent projection by Merrill Lynch/Bank of America the space economy would...
Biden Seen Likely To Grant Immunity To Saudi Crown Prince
By James M Dorsey The Biden administration is mulling whether to grant Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sovereign immunity in a case related to the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi. The journalist’s fiancé and a non-profit organization he helped found filed the lawsuit in a Washington district court....
Jobless Growth And Dwindling MSME Sector Worrying Factors For Economy
By K R Sudhaman Indian government is gung ho about Indian economy’s GDP numbers, which recorded a double digit growth in the first quarter this financial year and overtook Britain to become the world’s fifth largest economy. These numbers do give us a sense of pride as they are...
Global Media Making Narendra Modi A Hero Of Samarkand SCO Meet
By Anjan Roy from Toronto Prime minister Narendra Modi’s televised interview with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin at the SCO summit on September116 at Samarkand is reverberating in the Western international media even five days after the event. All major media houses in USA and Canada are repeating the...
Time To Recall Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is gubernatorial grouchiness at its worst. Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan must be replaced immediately. The Governor is guilty of going against all accepted norms of gubernatorial conduct, in the process of violating the Constitution he is supposed to uphold. Arif Mohammed Khan upped...
Conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar Started His Fraudster Career At The Age Of 17
By Harihar Swarup One of the earliest stories of confidence trickery by serial conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar is from early days in Bengaluru where he grew up. Then a 17-year-old, he is known to have carried around with him a forged letter of Bengaluru police commissioner declaring that the teenager...
New British Monarch Has A Long Relationship With India And Its Culture
By Kalyani Shankar Prince Charles, who held this title for a long time acceded to the British throne after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, last week. He has a robust Indian connection and has been familiar with Indians for decades. After his accession, he became Head...
India Most Vulnerable To Disaster Displacement In South Asia
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With 41.4 million disaster displacement in the last decade between 2010 and 2021, India has emerged as the most vulnerable in South Asia, followed by Pakistan with 16.4 million, Bangladesh with 14.1 million, and Nepal with 3.3 million displacements. South Asia, as a whole, accounts...
