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Indian officials have said the WHO guidance didn’t apply in India because the spread of the disease has been less severe than elsewhere. DESPARDES — As of Wednesday afternoon, there
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“… in one of his (UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath) speeches he can be heard saying that Hindus and Muslims belong to two different civilizations and that the two communities
Continue readingHas BJP Leadership Decided to Divide India Once Again?
“With no checks, the fire of social tensions is rapidly spreading across the nation and threatens to char the soul of our nation. It can only be extinguished by the
Continue readingIndia Has Slid to Being a Majoritarian State in Economic Despair: Manmohan Singh
DESPARDES — The Indian military establishment faces a ‘David vs Goliath’ like situation and a dilemma if its Army Chief’s latest talking points are to be read while sipping a
Continue readingIndia Focusing on Measures That are ‘Below Threshold of All-Out War’
There are some grim parallels between Kristallnacht in Germany in 1938 and Delhi today, says an opinion piece published in The Independent this week. DESPARDES — The sequence of events
Continue readingDelhi Police Actions Caused Death Of a Muslim Man In Infamous National Anthem Video
“(Indian) Foreign secretary dashing to Kabul suggests Feb 29 was sudden”; “Pakistan is effectively out of foreign policy wilderness” DESPARDES — Following a week of ceasefire between Afghan Taliban, US
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DESPARDES — Human rights groups and activists worldwide and in India are condemning the Modi-led government for carrying out widespread torture, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and other crimes in Kashmir
DR. JAVED JAMIL — Not surprisingly, hosted by his “great friend” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Trump repeated his oft-repeated call against “Radical Islam”. Both Trump and his Indian
The growth slowdown has been dramatic, while politics takes an aggressively illiberal turn; the overestimate of growth between 2011 and 2016 averaged about 2.5 percentage points annually, which would lower
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13 people including a policeman have been killed and at least 150 injured since violence erupted in Delhi clashes amid Trump’s visit, according to CNN. DESPARDES — A mosque was
“Kashmir, the land of the living dead and the talking graves—city graveyards, village graveyards, mass graves, unmarked graves, double-decker graves. Kashmir, whose truth can only be told in fiction—because only
SoDATA (South Data) — Share of loans to cash-poor companies in India more than doubled in five years, as level of bad debt and nearly-bad debt rose, leading to credit
Continue readingINSIGHT: India Economy In Vicious Cycle or Near Collapse