Swedish teenager activist, Greta Thunberg, who became the voice of conscience for the generation facing the climate change emergency, has been announced as Time magazine’s 2019 Person of the Year. The 16-year-old first hit the headlines for her solo strike against global warming outside Sweden’s parliament last year. “We can’t just continue living as if …
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Even as the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, that has been called ‘divisive’ and ‘unconstitutional’ by members of civil society and the intelligentsia, was passed by the Rajya Sabha after being hotly debated and argued upon in the Upper House of the parliament, its ripples have sent the people on the streets in the northeastern flank of the country. Assam turned …
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At a time when economic slowdown seems to have impacted a large section of the Indian population, a new report on salary growth in the coming year instils some hope among the working class. But this optimism may get crippled again as continued inflation is set to play a spoiler. In other words, employees in India are expected to see …
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Thousands of Indians have taken to the streets as public anger is growing over the brutal gang-rape and murder that took place in Hyderabad. From one MP calling for the perpetrators to be lynched to others calling for capital punishment and lifetime imprisonment, the discourse on rape and sexual assault in India has come to the point where a similar …
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Even as the country is outraging over the brutal Telangana rape and murder of a 27-year-old government veterinary doctor, crime against women continue unabated. On November 2, a young woman was allegedly gangraped by a former police constable along with his accomplices at a government quarter near Jhadeswari temple in Puri, Odisha. The incident took place when one of the …
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For a country that’s already been reeling under an economic down-slide and lack of new employment opportunities, slumping sales of cars and motorcycles have emerged as a major reason to worry. They are triggering massive job cuts in the auto sector but there’s little hope of a quick recovery. There was a brief euphoria in the month of October, particularly …
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Even as the Telangana rape and murder case has sent shockwaves across the country with protests happening in the national capital and other cities for justice, incidents of rape aren’t settling down. Over the past one week, the country has witnessed some dreadful incidents of rapes and murders reported with gory details. In yet another incident, a “sex maniac” and …
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IAS officer Ashok Khemka has been transferred yet again making this his 53rd transfer in 28 years of service. Reacting to his his latest posting, saying the “reward for honesty is humiliation”. Haryana government on Wednesday issued transfer order to 14 IAS officers, including Khemka. “Phir tabadla (transferred again),” the 1991-batch officer tweeted. “Same thing again. Constitution Day was celebrated …
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India’s economy is on a downward spiral and even our Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman admitted the same in Rajya Sabha. Sitharaman conceded the growth might have slowed down but the economy will never slip into recession. The Upper House of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, was engaged in a serious discussion on the current state of the Indian economic situation. What was …
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There seems to be a conscious effort by BJP’s controversial Member of Parliament, Pragya Thakur, to revere Nathuram Godse, the murderer of father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi. She has said it on previous occasions, and this time she chose temple of Indian democracy, the Parliament house to repeat something that is nothing short of a hate slogan. A person …
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