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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav On July 23, the Supreme Court of Bangladesh upheld a lower court decision that said Mohammed Yunus must pay taxes on $7 million of donations he made between 2011 and 2014 to three trusts — Professor Muhammad Yunus Trust, the Yunus Family Trust and the...
Bernie Sanders Proposes Military Spending Cut By U.S. And China
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON: Senator Bernie Sanders is proposing the United States and the People’s Republic of China mutually agree to cut military spending, shifting the money to combatting global warming. Sanders made his proposal in an Op-ed in The Guardian on August 21. But when he proposed a...
Political Intrusion Puts Indian Higher Education In Crisis
By Nantoo Banerjee The growing power tussle between the Centre and opposition-ruled states over the management control of the University Grants Commission-funded universities in states threatens to ruin the sanctity of the country’s higher education system. Chief ministers of a number of opposition states and centrally-appointed governors there are...
Chandrayaan 3 Success Has Given A Big Boost To India’s Image As A Powerful Nation
By Kalyani Shankar India successfully landed the Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft on the Moon last week. It is the fourth country to do so. Congratulations to ISRO for this achievement, which fills every Indian with pride. Scientists worldwide are especially interested in the Moon’s South Pole region. The Chandrayaan 3...
RSS Desperate To Take Control Of Key Public Universities
By Arun Srivastava After making inroads into school education, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is striving to take control of higher education, particularly functioning of the universities. RSS has already set up Shiksha Bharti, an educational wing to control and define the school level education. However, it has also started...
BJP Beating About The Bush, India Alliance Set To Expand
By Dr. Gyan Pathak INDIA alliance is all set to expand with more political parties on board. A concrete roadmap for general election 2024 is being prepared for the Mumbai meet to be held on August 31 – September 1, in which it would be formalized. Several other issues...
For Ensuring ‘Security’ At G20 Meetings, Delhi Is Being Converted Into A Police State
By Sushil Kutty Police state like conditions exist. In violence-hit Nuh, where there will be a G20 Sherpa meet, the communal environment has gone from bad to worse and the Manoharlal Khattar government appears to be in cahoots with the VHP. Never has India with her myriad of diversities...
ISRO’s Inaugural Solar Study Mission Aditya-L1 Set For Launch On September 2
By Girish Linganna Aditya L1, India’s inaugural solar study mission, is set for launch by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on September 2, 2023. Previously known as Aditya 1, the mission’s name, ‘Aditya’, has been derived from Sanskrit, meaning the Sun. Its ‘L-1’ designation refers to the Lagrange...
Kerala Chief Minster’s Detractors Suffer A Serious Legal Setback
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The detractors of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan suffered an embarrassing legal setback when the Muvattupuzha Vigilance Court dismissed the petition seeking a probe into the alleged bribe paid by the Cochin Minerals and Rutile Ltd (CMRL) to Veena Vijayan, daughter of the Chief Minister....
Prime Minister Could Give A Big Push To India’s Supply Chain At BRICS Meeting
By Subrata Majumder There has been growing debate on Prime Minister Narendra Modi assertion on resilient and inclusive supply chain in 15th BRICS summit, held at Johannesburg, leaving aside the major global issues. He led the global issues less focused in the summit which crippled world geo-politics and economic...
Non-Inclusion In Expanded BRICS Group Is A Big Setback For Bangladesh
By Ashis Biswas For Bangladesh, its failure to secure a membership within the BRICS grouping constitutes a major setback. While Bangladeshi opposition parties are gleefully targeting the ruling Awami League (AL) about this in the pre-election year, there is no denying that the diplomatic snub would count as a...
Far Right Political Violence Is On Rise In Germany As Left Influence Declines
By Katharina Hunfeld In Germany, a high-profile trial has drawn the attention of the media and reignited debates around the political nature of the country’s judiciary. On May 31, the Higher Regional Court of Dresden sentenced Lina E., a left-wing activist, to five years and three months in prison...
India Has Cause For Worry At The Outcome Of Latest China-Bhutan Border Talks
By Girish Linganna Bhutan, in the Himalayas, is nestled in a strategically sensitive geographical position between two Asian superpowers, India and China. Over the years, Delhi has been offering Thimphu hundreds of millions of dollars in military and economic aid, not without its own geopolitical compulsions. Both India and...
Six Years On, Oppressed Rohingyas Want A ‘Respectable Comeback’ To Myanmar
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Friday, August 25th, commemorates the sixth anniversary of the commencement of a massive offensive launched by Myanmar’s military against the predominantly Muslim minority residing in Rakhine state. During this devastating event, around 10,000 Rohingya individuals, encompassing men, women, children, and even newborns, lost their lives....
SEBI Continues To Drag Its Feet On Investigations Into Adani Manipulations
By K Raveendran SEBI has filed another wishy-washy report on its investigations into alleged stock manipulations by the Adani group in the wake of the sensational Hindenburg report, which accused the group of gross violations and malpractices. An interim report submitted by the market regulator to the Supreme Court,...
Workers And Farmers Decide To Intensify Their Joint Struggle
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India may be heading towards a much intensified, aggressive, and confrontational workers and farmers movement in the country. On Quit India anniversary on August 9, the country witnessed a massive mobilization of workers and farmers, and only a fortnight later on August 24, their joint...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Greece Visit Has Many Positive Features
By Sushil Kutty The best part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Greece visit, the first by an Indian PM in 40 years, was the Meghalaya Shawl and Chhattisgarh’s Dhokra Art, along with the Telangana Bidri Art vases, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted to the President and Prime Minister...
Chandrayaan 3’s Success Vindicates India’s Indigenous Technical Capability
By Harihar Swarup India successfully crossed a decisive milestone by accomplishing the demanding task of soft landing a robotic spacecraft on the Moon. Chandrayan-3’s Vikram lander is now firmly sitting on the South polar region of the lunar surface and getting ready to collect valuable data about the moon,...
