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Veganism for Conscious Living
Initially, the term vegan was used to describe non-dairy vegetarians, but in 1951 the Vegan Society updated the definition to "exclude all forms of animal exploitation". The term vegan first surpassed "beef" as a search term in 2016.The global market share of plant-based foods is projected to reach US $10,892 million by the end of 2022 with a CAGR of 6.7%.
G20 steered by India can become powerful instrument for global security, world economy
Narendra Modi has announced that India's G20 Presidency will be 'inclusive, ambitious, decisive and action oriented' and in keeping with his belief in India as a world power, declared that "over the next one year, we will strive to ensure that the G20 acts as global prime mover to envision new ideas and accelerate collective action".
Government must not forget why Ambedkar let Art 124(2) be as it is
In the early years of our republic, there were hardly any controversy regarding the appointment process. Between 1970 and 1980, however, questions regarding independence of our judiciary started to be raised especially in view of regular tussle between the central government and Supreme Court and the flash point came in 1980 on the issue of transfer of judges from one high court to the other, when the Supreme Court in S. P. Gupta vs Union of India (known as the First Judges case) recognised the primacy of the president and also held that the word "consultation" in Article 124 does not mean concurrence.
Is the govt crossing the Rubicon in the appointment of judges?
The attempt to undermine the independence of the judiciary first originated in 1973, after the Kesavananda Bharti judgement, which struck down some constitutional amendments by holding that the basic structure of the Constitution could not be amended. The Government of the day decided that only those judges who were committed to its ideology should be appointed.
Looking back at the roots of the collegium of contention
The Constitution 99th Amendment Act, 2014, paved the way for the NJAC Act to replace the collegium system for the appointment of judges, but in 2015, a five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court shot down the Act in the following year. It is apparent even now that the executive has not made peace with the Supreme Court on the matter.
Is US helping Islamabad to counter Pakistan Taliban's inroads?
The group also called 'Pakistan Taliban' demonstrated that the six-month ceasefire was history, by launching a couple of deadly attacks. A suicide bomber targeted a bus carrying member of the Pakistani constabulary in the Baluchistan's capital, Quetta. This was on November 30. The audacious attack, which was widely reported across the globe, earning TPP several brownie points in the arena of information war, killed six people, including a policeman.
For Pakistan, defeat is an orphan
The country's second Partition in 1971 was primarily along the ethno-linguistic lines as the Bengalis were dissatisfied by the hegemony of West Pakistan, specifically the Punjabis. The UN has time and again hit out at Islamabad over human rights violations, terrorism activities and treatment of minorities in Pakistan, thus directly responsible for delayed peace in South Asia.
India stands tall, proud and no one pushes it around: Kamboj
That was the message from India's Permanent Representative Ruchira Kamboj on Thursday when she was asked at a news conference about Russia's Foreign Minister's assertion that the western military group NATO was pushing New Delhi towards an anti-Moscow and anti-Beijing alliance.
Why Nepal election is good news for India
This is good news for India. In fact, if the NC had not emerged as the largest single party to triumph in the polls, it would have further tempted China to unite all the communist parties leading to the emergence of a new government led by the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML), backed by a few smaller parties or independents.
Will India benefit from Netanyahu's return as Israel's Prime Minister?
For one a conflict may be brewing up in the Caucuses -- and this time India and its close pal Israel may find themselves on opposite sides of the divide. For long tensions have been simmering between Baku and Tehran. And a major cause is Azerbaijan's sometimes overt claims on Iranian Azerbaijan, emboldened after the victory over Armenia and reclaiming of Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020.
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