Missile Sanctions
The imposition of US sanctions on Chinese companies for supplying Pakistan’s ballistic missile programme marks another chapter in the complex geopolitical dynamics of South Asia.
The imposition of US sanctions on Chinese companies for supplying Pakistan’s ballistic missile programme marks another chapter in the complex geopolitical dynamics of South Asia.
The resignation of two Maldivian ministers who had disparaged Prime Minister Narendra Modi marks an important moment in the fragile Maldives-India relationship.
The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, which is currently being scrutinised by a Joint Committee of Parliament (JCP), has stirred a hornet’s nest. The government claims that the proposed amendments to the original Waqf Act are intended to bring transparency, efficiency, and accountability in the management and administration of over 8.7 lakh Waqf properties spread across India.
The Union Cabinet’s decision to expand the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) to citizens aged 70 and above has been celebrated as a move to address India’s growing elderly healthcare needs.
For centuries, diplomacy has often operated in a space where truth is moulded, concealed, or reshaped to suit the interests of nations.
In a predominantly residential university, it was imperative for the authorities to ensure accommodation by reopening the hostels. Reports suggest that the students have become restive as they clamour for hostel facilities. For all the emphasis on the fine/performing arts, a backlash by the students was only to be anticipated. And so it came to be. In the wake of the gherao of senior functionaries, administration within the campus has come to a virtual halt.
It is entirely in Beijing’s interest that the US-led West, which had disentangled itself from West Asia and the Afghanistan-Pakistan theatre to focus its strategic energies on the Indo-Pacific to counter the threat of a rampant China, be waylaid in Europe. That is a huge relief for Beijing which was getting cornered in the Asia-Pacific.
There was no apparent contradiction between the scientific truth and non-scientific faith, and hence no need to isolate one from the other. Until modern science dawned with Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton and the others in the Middle Ages, no clear discrimination was preferred between philosophy and science. The fact that the social sciences could not take a clear shape and suffered an identity crisis was also responsible for the non-division
In ongoing research, conducted with co-authors Ora John Reuter and Quintin Beazer, we show that Russians’ approval of Putin decreases when their ability to vote for their city’s mayor is taken away by the regime. It may sometimes fall well short of a cry for full liberal democracy, but evidence from public opinion data shows that Russians do want their political leaders to be accountable to them.
The result of Sunday’s election reaffirms that Trinamul has regained the ground that it had lost to the BJP since 2019. The saffronite party, which was at the helm of 65 out of 108 civic bodies during Assembly elections in 2021, has failed to win any of them. The prominent among the BJP activists, pre-eminently Suvendu Adhikari, Dilip Ghosh and Arjun Singh, failed to ensure a victory for their party even on their home turf. The Left will be encouraged by its performance.
