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DESPARDES — Revelers around the world ushered in new decade, as stocks roared. Italy will follow France in levying a Digital Tax. And Pope says sorry for slapping a devotee.
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India’s consul general in New York last month suggested that India should imitate Israel’s policy of building settlements in the occupied West Bank. DESPARDES — This is not the case
Continue readingModi’s Brutal Vision: Protests Go Global, ‘As The World Turns’ in Silence
Speaking to DesPardes, a Pakistan-India affairs analyst said, “the outcome will define the character of Union of India”. DESPARDES — As the lockdown of Kashmir enters 144th day, India appears
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“This is the beginning of the undoing of Union of India”, says a Pakistani analyst DESPARDES — A former Indian army officer and Kargil war veteran in Assam, who had
Continue readingKargil War Veteran Declared Foreigner, Detained in Assam
Dr. Stanton created the world-famous “Ten Stages of Genocide” as a presentation to the U.S. Department of State when he worked there in 1996. DESPARDES — An internationally acclaimed expert
The Central American nation of Costa Rica is powered by almost 100% renewable energy including around 80 per cent from hydroelectric generation DESPARDES — The Government of Costa Rica A)
DESPARDES — At least 13 people have died in a devastating fire at an illegal plastics factory in Keraniganj on the outskirts of Bangladesh capital Dhaka. Another 20 critically injured
Continue readingFire in ‘Illegal’ Plastics Factory Outside Dhaka Kills 13
India’s parliament on Wednesday passed a contentious bill that seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim immigrants from some countries, as hundreds of troops were deployed in the northeast which has
Continue readingMODI’S MOVES: ‘Eerie Similarity’ to Nazi Laws; ‘Dangerous Turn in Wrong Direction’
Dexter Filkins and Rana Ayyub of The New Yorker tell the story of how they got into Kashmir and describe the repression and signs of torture that they observed there.
“The trajectory India has taken for itself; the minorities within India will suffer (unfortunately) and region may see more destabalization under RSS/BJP,” a South Asia expert says. IRSHAD SALIM —
Speaking in Parliament, some MPs even called for lynching the perpetrators involved in the horrific crime DESPARDES — More than a week after brutal gang rape and murder of a
Tharoor said the Bill not only singles out the Muslims but also goes against the historic legacy DESPARDES — Protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) have intensified in