On the night of 4 September, I returned from a candlelight march and was surfing various TV channels. I felt that the furore in Kolkata was on an increase. Nearly a month has elapsed since the heinous crime at R G Kar Hospital took place.
The pact between India and Singapore in the semiconductor sector, signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the country, is a strategic move with significant implications for both nations.
It is disconcerting that the Election Commission of India (ECI), the mainstay of free and fair elections, is suffering from a credibility crisis. On the one hand, the public trust in the ECI is dipping.
The recent electoral victory of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Thuringia underscores a troubling shift in Germany’s political landscape, reflecting growing unease about immigration and its effects on society.
The Buckingham Canal, an architectural marvel of the early 19th century, stretches 796 kilometers and once served as a lifeline for the region, linking the bustling city of Madras (now Chennai) with the port town of Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh.
Misgivings that the Centre might delay approval for the states’ labour budgets relating to the scheme are not wholly unfounded. A further withholding of funds is, therefore, likely. Many states are already facing huge arrears in payment to the job scheme workers primarily because of the Centre’s erratic release of funds.
Much water has flowed down the Indus over the last 75 years. As seven decades of conflicts and wars could not bring about a reasonable solution, naturally, desperation would be large writ on the faces of the Kashmiri people. But the reality of the situation needs to be understood and accepted by the people and the politicians of both countries
Germany for one has told all foreign students who arrived from Ukraine to leave the country by 23 May 2022, or face possible deportation. It is probably a good idea to leave the EU for other reasons too. In Poland, black and brown students leaving the train stations in border towns where refugees were arriving were accosted and harassed by members of Polish neo-Nazi groups.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has dismissed calls to boycott Russian energy supplies, saying it would cause significant damage to his country’s economy, while the head of the European Union’s executive arm has called on the US to increase deliveries of liquefied natural gas so that the 27-nation bloc could reduce its dependence on Russian gas.
A study conducted in 2019 revealed that over a fifth of the country’s top 500 companies had not appointed women directors. But shockingly, this study discovered that 10 of 21 public sector banks had not done so.
