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Putin visiting India: Is it strategic balancing?
Despite Indian effort for Atmanirbhar Bharat in defence manufacturing and SIPRI indicating significant 33 per cent decrease in import of military hardware by India in recent years, it remains heavily dependent on Russian technology, maintenance, procurement of hardware and spares. For many decades Russians have been collaborating with India in its indigenous manufacturing programs and were amenable to transfer of technology, which India was finding difficult to get from others.
Why is ASI reluctant to publish the 2003 Ayodhya excavation report?
First the judges of the Allahabad High Court and later the Supreme Court of India had relied on the voluminous report -- findings mentioned in it had been contested over and over again -- that was submitted after a 50-members plus team conducted the excavations at the then disputed site on the orders of the Allahabad High Court in 2003.
India and China in the emerging geopolitics
India has to define its stand and negotiate its international policy keeping in view the nation's best interests of the long run. Sino- Pak military alliance that chiefly worked against India, natural friendship between the two largest democracies of the world and the need for a rapid advancement of our Defence capabilities, are the major paradigms that should determine India's approach to both development and security.
IIT Bombay: Breeding geniuses by the lakeside
Set up in 1958 as the country's second IIT -- after IIT Kharagpur (IIT-KGP, 1950) -- in the list of 23 IITs currently, IIT-B enters the momentous diamond jubilee year of its historic first convocation held on December 22, 1962, when around 70 wide-eyed young men passed out of the institute. Decades later, the golden jubilee convocation in 2012 was attended by then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The institute has a little more than 12,005 students in 2021, as per the current annual report released by its Director, Professor Subhasis Chaudhuri.
Amid schools shutdown, dropout rate goes up
Educationists are now demanding to open the schools "at any cost". According to Ashok Agarwal, President of All India Parents Association (AIPA), in such a "critical situation", it is absolutely unnecessary to keep the schools shuts just because of pollution. Citing his assessment, Agarwal said that "more than" 20 lakh students have dropped out due to the shutdown of schools in the national capital. "These include more than one lakh disabled students. While the total figure of school dropouts across the country is more than two crores," he noted.
BJP in pole position as infighting among rivals in Kashmir escalates
The Congress party was the first to move out of the PAGD even as Dr Abdullah continued to claim that it was part of the Kashmir alliance. Some leaders of the party, according to sources, made it clear to the PAGD that the Congress would not afford to raise the demand for restoration of Article 370 parallel to the Assembly elections in Bihar. So, the Congress decided to go it alone and fielded candidates against those of the PAGD.
Is Erdogan the real cause of Turkey's currency crisis and economic woes?
Despite Turkey registering healthy growth -- in the third quarter of the current year it grew by 7.4 per cent -- Erdogan has been vociferous about maintaining low interest rates. But that is not all. Anindya Banerjee, DVP, Currency Derivatives & Interest Rate Derivatives, Kotak Securities, told India Narrative that a combination of issues including high inflation, a "compromised" Turkish Central Bank, senior Central Bank officials including the governor and deputy governor have been replaced in the last few months along with instability in the political situation have led to the rapid devaluation of the lira.
Maharashtra: Congress livid as Didi writes UPA's epitaph
Banerjee met leaders of two of the 3 ruling allies - Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena's MP Sanjay Raut and Tourism Minister Aditya Thackeray, met civil society members, some industrialists, film personalities, but obviously she had no love lost for the state Congress. The visiting leader's shocker came during her brief media interaction, when she virtually blurted out - "What UPA? There's no UPA now..." stunning the Congress and momentarily even the NCP supremo Pawar seemed dazed but kept his legendary cool.
This World AIDS Day, take a pledge to 'End Inequalities. End AIDS. End Pandemics.'
The India HIV Estimation 2019 report notes that the estimated adult HIV prevalence rate in the 15-49 age group has been decreasing since the epidemic peaked in the year 2000 and has been stabilising in recent years. India's epidemic has been limited to key affected populations, including sex workers and men who have sex with men and intravenous drug users. Based on these statistical measures, states are ranked. Rather than naming and shaming persons, groups and states, it is better to provide care and support to people living with HIV.
Globally active China
Recent reports by Wall Street Journal have revealed that the US intelligence agencies found evidence of construction work on what they believed was a secret Chinese military facility in the United Arab Emirates, and which was stopped after Washington's intervention. It says that satellite imagery of the Port Khalifa revealed suspicious construction work inside a container terminal built and operated by a Chinese shipping corporation, Cosco.
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