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 […]
India, China to continue military talks to discuss Eastern Ladakh dispute
India and China are going to continue their military talks to find a resolution to the ongoing dispute in Eastern Ladakh where the Chinese have deployed large number of troops along the Line of Actual Control. “After the Major General-level talks on Wednesday, the talks are expected to be held over the next few days […]
97% active corona cases asymptomatic in Karnataka: Minister
Bengaluru, June 11 As many as 97 per cent active COVID-19 cases in Karnataka are asymptomatic but there is no evidence that they do not spread the infection, said a minister on Thursday. “It is a pleasant news that more than 97 per cent of the active cases are symptomatic. However, there is no conclusive […]
India’s COVID-19 cases cross 2.8 lakh, death toll at 8,102
Agencies : The coronavirus cases in India rose to 2,86,579 on Thursday out of which 1,37,448 cases are active and 1,41,028 number of patients have recovered according to ministry of health. The death toll due to the infection rose to 8,102. After United States, Brazil, Russia, and United Kingdom, India is the fifth worst-affected country […]
The strategic road to DBO
Of the possible triggers cited for the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) targeting of Indian territory along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, the construction of the 255-km long Darbuk-Shyokh-Daulat Beg Oldie (DSDBO) all-weather road is possibly the most consequential. Running almost parallel to the LAC, the DSDBO road, meandering through elevations ranging between 13,000 […]
