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With just a day to go before the results of the closely fought assembly elections in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Punjab and Manipur are out, political players are leaving no stone unturned to ensure they get to form the next government. Some are taking recourse to an increasingly popular trend of today – parking party […]
New Delhi: The divestment saga of Central Electronics (CEL) deserves more attention than it is getting. The broad details are well known enough. The public sector undertaking (PSU), founded in 1974 to commercially exploit technologies developed by national laboratories and indigenous R&D institutions, briefly hit the headlines last November when the Narendra Modi government announced its sale […]
New Delhi: A network of Arab and Middle Eastern journalists has asked media organisations, particularly Western ones, to be wary of implicit and explicit bias in their coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, saying it has observed examples of racist coverage that normalises war in non-European regions. The Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association (AMEJA) […]
Amid more frontal assaults on the founding principles of the Indian republic, it is easy to gloss over an innocuous-looking government circular impacting no more than perhaps a couple of dozen students. However, this would be a huge mistake. The National Overseas Scholarship Scheme (NOS) of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment provides funding for students […]
New Delhi: An 87-year-old bedridden woman, a resident of Delhi’s Tilak Nagar, was allegedly assaulted and raped by a man who broke into her house, The incident took place on Sunday afternoon, when the woman’s daughter, who is 65, had gone out to meet a friend. The man attacked her, sexually assaulted her and fled with her mobile […]
On multiple occasions, Shantishree Dhulipudi Pandit has put out her Hindutva right-wing political views out in the open unhesitatingly. She has now deleted her Twitter account, after journalists started sharing her tweets. Shantishree Dhulipudi Pandit, currently a professor of politics and public administration in Savitribai Phule Pune University, was appointed the new vice-chancellor of India’s […]
What would the Union Budget contain for farmers in the year following the historic farmer protests? This was a question on many minds as the Union Budget speech unfolded on February 1. After all, the farmer agitation, which held the nation’s attention for more than a year, did not end but was merely suspended in […]
Jalandhar: Around 2,000 international students – most from Punjab, some learning online and some on study visas – are left in the lurch with three private colleges in Canada ’s Montreal city suddenly closing. Canada’s CBC News has reported that all three colleges have filed for creditor protection. In the court filing, the colleges blamed the COVID-19 pandemic for some […]
Immediately after the Congress leader’s speech in parliament, BJP leaders and supporters have come at him all guns blazing – but with sentiment, not fact. New Delhi: No sooner did Congress leader Rahul Gandhi finish giving a speech in Parliament on February 2, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) went at the opposition leader all guns blazing. Gandhi’s […]
New Delhi: The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) – a forum for women in media professions – has conducted a study on how hegemonic and toxic masculinities play out on India’s TV news. A group of NWMI volunteers studied 185 news and talk shows across 31 TV channels in 12 languages for a week in September […]
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman started the innings of her much-awaited 2022 budget speech by emphasising her macro-fiscal priorities. Thus, we were treated to terms such as a vision of ‘India at 100’, in areas of ‘inclusive development’, ‘productivity enhancement’, ‘sunrise opportunities’, ‘energy transition’, ‘climate change’ and ‘PM Gati Shakti’. The PM Gati Shakti Programme identified […]
“Saale chamaro tumhari kismat bahut tez hai, tum America pahunch gaye. Translated, this means, ‘you chamars – a slur used by ‘upper’ caste members – you’re in luck to have made it to America.’ The casual, casteist insult was one of many Neha Singh grew accustomed to on campus, as a student at California State University a decade […]
New Delhi: The Economic Survey 2021-22 lists various steps the Union government took last year to battle COVID-19. From vaccination to testing and infrastructure development, it enumerates various points. But the two waves of the pandemic that happened in India are summed up just in these lines: “During the first wave, the cumulative number of COVID-19 […]
As another Union Budget rolls around, there is a palpable air of disenchantment and disinterest. Last year was meant to be the ‘make or break’ speech from Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Notable for its acknowledgement of the dire fiscal situation, little else stands out from the event. This year, even the pre-budget energy one […]
New Delhi: The Kerala high court on Monday (January 31) deferred the order issued to Malayalam news channel MediaOne TV by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting revoking its license to broadcast till the next hearing date, LiveLaw reported. The news channel went off the air on Monday, reportedly because its license was revoked by […]
J.S. Bandukwala, a well-known rights activist who spent many years working towards a more inclusive society, passed away on Saturday morning in Vadodara, Gujarat. He was 77 and is survived by a son and a daughter. According to his doctor, Bandukwala, who lived alone, had been unwell for the last week due to age-related complications. […]
Philanthropy, meaning altruistic giving for the love of mankind, is one of humanity’s nobler instincts. At the same time, it has ever been a way of legitimising and whitewashing ill-begotten wealth, and of acquiring a status and a place in history through the benefactions. Private philanthropy has never been bigger than at present (one estimate […]
When I was a child, my father, a devotee of the Hindu god Shiva, would walk to a nearby temple every Monday to worship his favorite god. We lived in a one-room house in a small village in Gujarat. My father was a farm worker, and his visit to the temple on Mondays was one […]
Underpinning the crisis of rampant unemployment besieging the Indian economy is the struggle of the Narendra Modi government in tapping India’s potential as a global manufacturing hub. Ironically, redesigning India’s economy into such a hub was the very premise of the ‘Make in India’ initiative, the failure of which is central to the larger arc […]
The government decision came after the Arya Vysya community objected to Chintamani Natakam. The Andhra Pradesh government on Monday, January 17 issued orders to ban Chintamani Natakam, a popular play across the state. The play is particularly enjoyed with much fervour in rural areas. The government decision came after the Arya Vysya community objected to the […]
