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By Harihar Swarup Former Commissioner to India, Muazzem Ali and 1971 war hero Colonel Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahil were the first two Bangladeshi citizens honoured with one of India’s civilian awards, the Padma Sri. Muazzem was honoured posthumously at a function in New Delhi where other awardees named in...
Erdogan Becoming A Liability For Turkey And Its People
By Manish Rai Last month Turkey made it into the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog headquartered in Paris. Turkey now joins its close ally Pakistan in FATF’s crosshairs. Surprisingly Turkey becomes the largest economy to be included in this...
Why Goa Elections Are Important For All Parties
By Kalyani Shankar The battle lines for the assembly elections are drawn in the tiny state of Goa, which is going for polls early next year. The poll scene is likely to be crowded, with at least eight parties contesting. The ruling BJP and opposition Congress and some outside...
DMK Seen Dumping Congress To Come Closer To BJP
By K R Sudhaman Speculation is rife that ruling DMK is trying to shun differences with BJP and coming closer to the national party in a bid to have better Centre-state relations and in the process Congress may become a fall guy. There are also rumours that Chief Minister...
SC Makes No Secret Of Ire Against UP Govt On Lakhimpur-Kheri
By Sushil Kutty Whoever said the Supreme Court of India speaks in riddles was talking in riddles because the apex court on Monday spoke plain and straight, no beating around the proverbial bush, telling the Uttar Pradesh Government that it did not believe one whit bit that the Yogi...
India Not Prepared To Tackle Health Risks From Climate Change
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India is not yet prepared to protect its citizens from the possibility of most devastating health impacts of climate change, though it is one of the worst suffer country in the world. It has been revealed by the latest global survey report just published at...
Daniel Ortega Secures Fourth Term As President In Nicaraguan Polls
By Satyaki Chakraborty Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega clinched a fourth consecutive term as the national elections held on November 7 showed that his alliance had received 76 per cent of the votes. As usual, the United States administration termed the polling ‘rigged’ and threatened sanctions against the new regime,...
South Asia Is New Epicentre Of Muslim Ultra-Conservatism
By James M Dorsey As Middle Eastern states attempt to manage their political and security differences, Muslim-majority countries are regrouping along a fault line that separates proponents of varying concepts of an authoritarian but religiously and socially more tolerant, ‘moderate Islam’ from those advocating stricter adherence to intolerant, non-pluralistic...
Wall Street View – The Black Hole For Emerging Markets
By Matein Khalid The Middle Kingdom has been a black hole for emerging markets equitywallahs since mid-2020. The PBOC kept monetary policy far too tight at a time when the global pandemic necessitated some credit acceleration. The economic slowdown after the Wuhan virus was worse than Street consensus. The...
Government Responsible For India’s Worst-Ever Oil Price Shock
By Nantoo Banerjee The big surge in global oil prices, especially through the second half of the current year, has been a big cause of concern for large oil importers across the world, including India. This comes at a time when the world is preparing itself to restore economic...
Blockchain Technology And Cryptocurrency Are Fraud-Proof
By K R Sudhaman There might have been some fake news about cryptocurrency, but blockchain technology on which cryptocurrency is based is certainly a disruptive technology. But days are not far off when digital currency and blockchain technology are adopted in a big way not only for digital currency...
Nuclear Arms Pose Grave Threat To Climate
By Dr. Arun Mitra Countries around the globe are meeting at the Conference of Parties – COP 26 at Glasgow. The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change – IPCC and several civil society organisations have raised serious concerns over deteriorating climatic conditions. The issue has gained importance because the world...
Five-Year Balance Sheet Of Narendra Modi’s Demonetisation Decision
By Satyaki Chakraborty It was five years ago, on that fateful night of November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his ‘historic’ decision of demonetization promising that it would act as a game changer in the Indian economy by driving out black money, weed out fake notes and...
The Two-In-One War Being Fought Over Drugs
By Sushil Kutty Maha Vikas Aghadi minister Nawab Malik is the best thing that has happened to you-tubers in a while. His ‘disclosure a day’ on NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede’s exploits is enough masala to keep raking in you-tube dollars. In fact, some you-tubers have gotten fat just...
Organisation Remains The Weak Link For TMC In Tripura
By Sagarneel Sinha The Trinamool Congress is trying hard again to gain a foothold in Tripura, where the party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee held his first rally on October 31. It had made several attempts in the past to expand the party in the northeastern state. After the...
Minorities In Bangladesh Ponder Over What Next
By Ashis Biswas In Bangladesh, a section of beleaguered Hindus in Comilla, Chattogram and other districts, where widespread communal violence had erupted during the Durga Puja, is reconsidering their future citizenship options, according to recent reports; many want to relocate/migrate to other countries in the long run. There is...
Unannounced Internet Outages In J&K Disrupting Civil Life In A Big Way
By Gulzar Bhat Sporting a scraggly beard, Mudasir Ahmad Bhat has his eyes hooked to his mobile screen, trying to open a website. Suddenly the data services vanish, and he has to rush to a nearby locality to get his phone connected to the internet. Bhat, a student from...
Master Political Games Being Played Around Fuel Taxes
By K Raveendran The rather surprise cut in the central tax on diesel and petrol by the Modi government has turned out to be a deft political move. The timing of the announcement itself has been political. The cut came within 24 hours of the by-elections results in 11...
