[ad_1] Congress party chief Mallikarjun Kharge attacked the Prime Minister Narendra-Modi-led Union government on Friday, after the Parliament passed the Waqf Amendment Bill 2025. Kharge, the leader of the Opposition (LoP) in Rajya Sabha, accused the government of taking a “negative stand.” “It is their interpretation, we kept our views on the bill in front…
[ad_1] Here is how US representative Marjorie Taylor Greene responded to Sky News television correspondent Martha Kelner from the UK when the latter raised a question regarding the Signal chat leak at a press conference: âOkay, we donât give a crap about your opinion and your reporting. Why donât you go back to your country…
[ad_1] Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on March 26, claimed that he was not being allowed to speak and that the House was being run in an “undemocratic manner”. Gandhi’s remarks came after Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla asked him to follow the rules of procedure that members are expected…
[ad_1] Donald trump Tariff Wars: Amid global tension of trade wars, ignited by US President Donald Trump, Baba Ramdev has made explosive claims on the Republican urging âIndians to uniteâ. Ramdev has said that Donald Trump âcreated a new world record of ‘tariff terrorism’. He has ripped off democracy by threatening poor and developing nationsâ….
[ad_1] In the last two weeks, the Peopleâs Liberation Army (PLA) of China conducted live-fire naval drills in the international waters off Australia, New Zealand and Vietnam, and shooting drills in the Taiwan Strait. This show of military might is a sign of Chinaâs growing confidence as a maritime power. Itâs also a signal to…
[ad_1] On the surface, these systems appear to be functioning as they should. Elections are being held, and voters are casting their ballots for leaders and parties they believe will represent their interests. But too often, they end up electing politicians who serve only their own interests rather than those of their constituents. While gullibility…
[ad_1] Police were ordered to quell the unrest, and given permission to shoot if needed. By 5 August, nearly 300 people had been killed, and Hasina, under serious pressure from the Bangladeshi army, had resigned and fled the country. The controversial job-quota system, which came under fire amid increasing economic hardship, rising youth unemployment and…
[ad_1] This was India in 1947: Life expectancy was 32 years. Literacy was 18%. Gross domestic product (GDP) growth had been sub-0.5% per annum for over 50 years. Yes, the so-called âHindu rate of growthâ of our early years of independence was an eight-fold increase over the growth rate in the first half of the…
[ad_1] It was a period of atrocities and genocide (by Pakistan) and a fight-back by the Mukti Bahini. In 1971, I was a first-year under-graduate student at Presidency College, Kolkata. East Pakistanâs resistance to West Pakistan had economic and political reasons. But underlining all this, there was pride in Bengali language and culture, and resistance…
[ad_1] Unsurprisingly, this includes India and China. A recent paper by Thomas Piketty and his co-authors shows that the income share of the top 1% in India has risen to its highest level since 1922, the earliest data that they have, when the country was still under British colonial rule. At the same time, global…
