Covid-19 Vs Economy: Rahul Gandhi Slams Modi Govt For ‘Flattening The Wrong Curve’
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday shared a graph criticising the Narendra Modi-led government’s management of COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Quoting Albert Einstein, he shared short video of a graph on Twitter showing how the economy took a nosedive while the number of COVID-19 cases skyrocketed. In the animated graph, Gandhi showed how two […]
Nepal fast-tracks new map bill, president may approve it by Wednesday: Report
Kathmandu: Nepal has fast-tracked the passage of a constitution amendment Bill to approve the country’s new map that includes Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura which figure in Indian maps. The Bill, passed unanimously Saturday by the House of Representatives, was tabled in the Rastriya Sabha, the Upper House, on Sunday where several members, while urging the government […]
India will sort out ‘misunderstanding’ with Nepal through dialogue: Rajnath
New Delhi: Asserting that the road built by India till Lipulekh Pass is very much in its territory, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday that his government believed in sorting out the “misunderstanding” in relations with Nepal through dialogue. In a virtual rally for Uttarakhand, Singh underscored the deep ties between the two countries, saying […]
Man throws children from rooftop over family dispute; two-yr-old dies
A two-year-old boy died and another was injured on Sunday after they were allegedly thrown off the roof of a four-storey building in central Kolkata’s Burrabazar area by a 55-year-old man who had some dispute with the father of the deceased, police said. The other boy, who is six-years-old, was admitted to a hospital in […]
Two members of Indian High Commission staff in Pakistan go missing
Two Indian staffers working at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad have been missing since Monday morning. The Indian High Commission has raised this issue with the Pakistani authorities, reported The Indian Express. The two were identified as a CISF security official and a driver. The incident comes days after two Pakistani officials at the […]
Coronavirus global updates, June 13: Italy, Germany, France and Netherlands sign contract with Astrazeneca for Covid vaccine
Germany, France and the Netherlands have signed a contract with Astrazeneca to supply European citizens with a vaccine against the coronavirus, Italy’s health minister said on Saturday. He added that the first batch of doses would be made available by the end of 2020, Reuters reported. In the worldwide death toll of the coronavirus, Brazil […]
PM Modi to meet chief ministers on June 16, 17 amid spike in Covid-19 cases
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be meeting chief ministers over two days next week, June 16 and 17- amid concerns regarding a spike in coronavirus cases across the country. As the fourth phase of lockdown was drawing to a close, it was home minister Amit Shah who held a meeting with chief ministers to deliberate a way […]
Ghulam Nabi Azad: ‘Govt decisions during lockdown must be discussed in Parliament’
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha and senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad speaks to Manoj C G about the importance of reconvening Parliament and the issues that need to be discussed. The monsoon session of Parliament may be a mix of virtual and physical participation. What is your view on that? I would like […]
Ram Guha’s tweet about ‘culturally backward’ Gujarat unites BJP and Congress
New Delhi: A tweet on Gujarat by historian Ramchandra Guha, quoting a British writer, triggered a social media furore Thursday, and unwittingly ended up uniting political rivals BJP and Congress. Guha, quoting British writer Phillip Spratt from 1939, wrote: “Gujarat, though economically advanced, is culturally a backward province… . Bengal in contrast is economically backward but […]
No Use Discussing Black Lives Matter In India If We Can’t Foster Change Back Home
“Black, brown, yellow, Mexican, Puerto Rican, we’re all the same. All us people of colour must stick together.”, said Jamanbhai to Demetrius in the 1991 film Mississippi Masala. This dialogue profoundly sums up the context enveloped in the next few paras. Indeed, colours are a crucial signifier of races, but in India, they exist far and […]
