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Let's go purple on World Alzheimer's Day
Every year on September 21, people across the world come together to raise awareness around Alzheimer's. The theme for World Alzheimer's month 2022 is "Know Dementia, Know Alzheimer's". The theme is the same as in 2021. However, this year special focus is given on post-diagnosis support. The forget-me-not flower is a symbol of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. The small blue flower represents remembrance and is long associated with dementia. Purple is called the colour of Alzheimer's.
Why PM Narendra Modi must scale the wall of bureaucracy to foster a New India
The Indian civil service system is one of the oldest administrative systems in the world. In India, it had its origin in the Mauryan period. Kautilya's Arthashastra laid down the basic principles for the selection of civil servants, the methods of their performance evaluation, and the code of conduct to be followed by them.
Indian diplomacy's ace performance at Samarkand
China which initiated this regional grouping as Shanghai Five in 1996, has transformed the forum into an influential grouping of eight nations, with many more like Iran to join as a permanent member and diverse countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Belarus and Mongolia being given Observer status, which shows its transformation into an influential regional forum, besides challenging to other western regional alliances.
SCO Summit: Conflict between need and greed
At least four of the permanent members of SCO are a loggerhead with each other or with their immediate neighbours. The Russian war in Ukraine has created uncertainty about the global supply of gas and oil. Pakistan is grappling with terrorism in its northern region of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa as well as wrestling with armed separatists in southwestern province of Balochistan.
Can Omar Abdullah's cordiality be interpreted as 'warming up between NC and BJP'?
Dr. Abdullah had not only attended that marriage ceremony, but had been cordially received by the senior BJP leader, Dr. Jitendra Singh. In a nutshell, the NC and the BJP are politically locked in a Julius Caesar-Brutus battle. In a nutshell, the NC and the BJP are politically locked in a Julius Caesar-Brutus battle.
Is China arm-twisting Sri Lanka as price to restructure loan?
Wickremesinghe added that Sri Lanka does not want to be part of any "big power rivalry" in the Indian Ocean region and lamented the fact that geopolitics had made Sri Lanka a "punching bag". In a bid to defend the visit of a Chinese research ship to the Hambantota port, he also said that the Chinese operate around 17 ports in the Indian Ocean including the Hambantota Port.
BJP elated over verdict, sees its temple agenda moving as per plan
As euphoria fills the air, the Gyanvapi dispute will also be simmering in the communal cauldron and Mathura will also be waiting to be served hot by then. As euphoria fills the air, the Gyanvapi dispute will also be simmering in the communal cauldron and Mathura will also be waiting to be served hot by then.
Afghan situation pushes India and Central Asia to step up counter-terror drive
Earlier this week, India and Tajikistan held an important meeting in the field of combating terrorism and extremism with a special focus on countering radicalisation. At the fourth meeting of the Joint Working Group of India and Tajikistan on Counter-Terrorism held on Tuesday, the delegations from both sides discussed in detail the ways to counter contemporary challenges and threats.
Why India should be excited about the Samarkand SCO summit
This summit will be a unique one. It is the first summit since 2019, following the pandemic, which will be held in person. The earlier two had been virtual ones and it comes in the aftermath of major geopolitical shifts and three seminal events: the pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine and the Taiwan Straits conflict, and the beginning of the de-dollarisation of the world economy.
'Brahmastra': The Aftermath
Does giving out inflated figures for any film save the film or the maker's prestige? Most of all, can such figures convince movie lovers that they thronged the cinemas when they had not! The trend of manipulating collection figures is age-old, but at that time it did not concern or involve people. It was done to sell the unreleased circuits of a film. This was when a film remained unsold in some circuits.
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