India: Mohammad Azzu attempted to kidnap a 7-year-old girl, Street Dogs' barking scared him off, enabling the girl to escape. The police arrested Azzu and sent him to jail. #SaveGirls
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Σάββατο 6 Ιανουαρίου 2024
Τρίτη 25 Δεκεμβρίου 2018
Ιndia is building a high-tech sustainable city from scratch
India is building a high-tech sustainable city from scratch
Andhra Pradesh has enlisted Norman Foster to help redesign its capital city, Amaravati.
Image: REUTERS/Arko Datta
Emma Charlton
Skyscrapers, high-rise apartments, neon signs and congested roads. These are a few things that might spring to mind when you think about a modern city.
Many of the world’s major conurbations are organically grown sprawls – think of London, Tokyo, New York or Mexico City – and face challenges including air pollution, traffic jams, waste disposal and homelessness.
Andhra Pradesh has enlisted Norman Foster to help redesign its capital city, Amaravati.
Image: REUTERS/Arko Datta
Emma Charlton
Skyscrapers, high-rise apartments, neon signs and congested roads. These are a few things that might spring to mind when you think about a modern city.
Many of the world’s major conurbations are organically grown sprawls – think of London, Tokyo, New York or Mexico City – and face challenges including air pollution, traffic jams, waste disposal and homelessness.
Τρίτη 6 Νοεμβρίου 2018
Bank Privatisation, Corporate Default and the Fight to Democratise Banking
Bank Privatisation, Corporate Default and the Fight to Democratise Banking – in Conversation with All India Banking Employee Union Joint Secretary, Devidas Tuljapurkar
October 7, 2018
Fifty years after banks were nationalised in India, the government is attempting to privatise Public Sector Banks through a variety of ruses. What is at stake in
Δευτέρα 5 Νοεμβρίου 2018
In Cold Blood’ : Republishing A Report on Hashimpura
‘In Cold Blood’ : Republishing A Report on Hashimpura
November 3, 2018
(Groundxero shares an old-report by human right activist and journalist Nilanjan Dutta, who was among the few, who entered the riot torn area of Hashimpura and brought the truth of the state sponsored massacre out in the open.
The Hashimpura Massacre
On 31 October, 2018, thirty one years after the Hashimpura massacre near Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, the Delhi High Court reversed a trial court acquittal order and sentenced to life imprisonment 16 personnel of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC), for their role in the killing of 38 Muslims. The High Court bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel, calling the actions of the PAC
Παρασκευή 26 Οκτωβρίου 2018
The Question of Chinese Port Access in the Indian Ocean
A String of Fake Pearls? The Question of Chinese Port Access in the Indian Ocean
Chinese control of ports in other states – even those Beijing “owns” – will always remain limited.
By Natalie Klein
Earlier this month, Sri Lanka hosted a two-day conference among diplomats and non-government experts that rightly shone a spotlight on the increasing importance of the Indian Ocean. As highlighted by one delegation, it is currently what goes through the Indian Ocean (including half the world’s container traffic, one-third of bulk cargo transport, and around two thirds of the world’s maritime oil shipments) that particularly marks its global significance, rather than what may be produced from that ocean and its littoral states. The international trade associated with the Indian Ocean and the strategic significance of the region have become manifest.
Κυριακή 21 Οκτωβρίου 2018
How India is harnessing technology to lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution
How India is harnessing technology to lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The newly opened Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution is helping to boost digitization in India.
Image: REUTERS/Ajay Verma
Alex GraySenior Writer, Formative Content
In November of 2016, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an announcement that sent the country’s population into a tailspin.
Παρασκευή 28 Σεπτεμβρίου 2018
Δευτέρα 9 Ιουλίου 2018
Τρίτη 3 Ιουλίου 2018
A long march of the dispossessed to Delhi
A long march of the dispossessed to Delhi
India’s agrarian crisis has gone beyond the agrarian.
It’s a crisis of society. Maybe even a civilizational crisis, with perhaps the largest body of small farmers and labourers on earth fighting to save their livelihoods. The agrarian crisis is no longer just a measure of loss of land. Nor only a measure of loss of human life, jobs or productivity. It is a measure of our own loss of humanity. Of the shrinking boundaries of our humaneness. That we have sat by and watched the deepening misery of the dispossessed, including the death by suicide of well over 300,000 farmers these past 20 years. While some – ‘leading economists’ – have mocked the enormous suffering around us, even denying the existence of a crisis.
India’s agrarian crisis has gone beyond the agrarian.
It’s a crisis of society. Maybe even a civilizational crisis, with perhaps the largest body of small farmers and labourers on earth fighting to save their livelihoods. The agrarian crisis is no longer just a measure of loss of land. Nor only a measure of loss of human life, jobs or productivity. It is a measure of our own loss of humanity. Of the shrinking boundaries of our humaneness. That we have sat by and watched the deepening misery of the dispossessed, including the death by suicide of well over 300,000 farmers these past 20 years. While some – ‘leading economists’ – have mocked the enormous suffering around us, even denying the existence of a crisis.
Δευτέρα 18 Ιουνίου 2018
India To Put Retaliatory Tariffs on US Goods
India To Put Retaliatory Tariffs on US Goods as Modi’s “America First” Policy
Backfires On His Sinophobic Government
Written by Adam Garrie o
India has written to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) declaring its intention to put tariffs on a variety of American products that are traditionally popular in the south Asian country. The move comes after the Trump administration failed to grant India an exemption to the new US tariffs on imported steel and aluminium. While India is not in the top ten steel importing nations in respect of the US market, New Delhi nevertheless felt the need to follow China’s lead and impose retaliatory tariffs on a protectionist US.
Written by Adam Garrie o
India has written to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) declaring its intention to put tariffs on a variety of American products that are traditionally popular in the south Asian country. The move comes after the Trump administration failed to grant India an exemption to the new US tariffs on imported steel and aluminium. While India is not in the top ten steel importing nations in respect of the US market, New Delhi nevertheless felt the need to follow China’s lead and impose retaliatory tariffs on a protectionist US.
Κυριακή 17 Ιουνίου 2018
FARM SUBSIDIES AT WTO
INDIA REJECTS U.S. CLAIM OVER UNDERREPORTED FARM SUBSIDIES AT WTO: India has rejected a U.S. claim that New Delhi is providing inaccurate information to the World Trade Organization about its market price supports for wheat and rice crops, according to a Geneva trade official.
During a WTO agriculture committee meeting on Tuesday, the U.S. formally accused India of substantially underreporting its subsidies, a move it called inconsistent with India’s WTO obligations, the official said. In response, India rejected the U.S. “counter notification,” arguing that New Delhi has done a better job on transparency than the U.S. and has maintained a methodology that’s consistent with WTO rules, the official added.
Last month, USTR said its own calculations demonstrated that India underreported the subsidies for the two crops, causing New Delhi to exceed the domestic support it’s allowed to offer under the WTO membership rules. WTO members are required to periodically notify the body of new subsidies and other domestic support programs
www.fotavgeia.blogspot.com
During a WTO agriculture committee meeting on Tuesday, the U.S. formally accused India of substantially underreporting its subsidies, a move it called inconsistent with India’s WTO obligations, the official said. In response, India rejected the U.S. “counter notification,” arguing that New Delhi has done a better job on transparency than the U.S. and has maintained a methodology that’s consistent with WTO rules, the official added.
Last month, USTR said its own calculations demonstrated that India underreported the subsidies for the two crops, causing New Delhi to exceed the domestic support it’s allowed to offer under the WTO membership rules. WTO members are required to periodically notify the body of new subsidies and other domestic support programs
www.fotavgeia.blogspot.com
Τρίτη 12 Ιουνίου 2018
India Continues to Oppose Chinese BRI
ASIA & PACIFIC
India and China signed two bilateral agreements on the sidelines of the SCO summit. Other than the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), India was in consonance with every issue discussed at the summit. In total, around 22 outcome documents were issued, including an appeal to the youth against radicalization, which India considers to be “most important.”
Τρίτη 3 Οκτωβρίου 2017
AFSPA zone reduced in 2 northeast states
AFSPA zone reduced in 2 northeast states
Naresh Mitra|
(Representative image)GUWAHATI: The Union home ministry has brought down the range of 'disturbed area' under the controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) 1958 in Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh following improvement in the law and order situation.
Δευτέρα 25 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017
Why millennials are checking into hotels in their hometowns
Why millennials are checking into hotels in their hometowns
Sonam Joshi|
Representative photo
For the last six months, Gopal Sharma has spent nearly two days every week at a hotel in his hometown Kolkata. The 29-year-old IT engineer is far from being a high flyer. Yet, since he stays on the city's outskirts, he often ends up booking a hotel every time he has a late meeting, is out partying, or stranded due to bad weather.
Sonam Joshi|
Representative photoFor the last six months, Gopal Sharma has spent nearly two days every week at a hotel in his hometown Kolkata. The 29-year-old IT engineer is far from being a high flyer. Yet, since he stays on the city's outskirts, he often ends up booking a hotel every time he has a late meeting, is out partying, or stranded due to bad weather.
Σάββατο 2 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017
Demonetisation not the only reason
Demonetisation not the only reason
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Is the Indian economy slowing down or is it on a correction path? Was the high growth rate of 11.4 per cent in the first quarter of 2010 an aberration? The country is stalked with many questions and myriad problems.
Jobs, a key indicator for the economy, are simply not growing. Investments are not coming from internal sources. Foreign Direct Investment promises are there but at the actual level the pouring is rather slow. People invest when they have assurance of a return. The FDI is a long-term commitment so the wariness is more the normal.
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Is the Indian economy slowing down or is it on a correction path? Was the high growth rate of 11.4 per cent in the first quarter of 2010 an aberration? The country is stalked with many questions and myriad problems.
Jobs, a key indicator for the economy, are simply not growing. Investments are not coming from internal sources. Foreign Direct Investment promises are there but at the actual level the pouring is rather slow. People invest when they have assurance of a return. The FDI is a long-term commitment so the wariness is more the normal.
Πέμπτη 31 Αυγούστου 2017
The Doklam dilemma
The Doklam dilemma
Raveendran/AFP/Getty Images
After a tense, 70-day standoff in a remote Himalayan border region, China and India are no longer on the brink of war. [CNN / Jim Griffiths]
The two countries mutually agreed to pull back their troops from the Doklam Plateau, located in the tiny neighboring country of Bhutan. Bhutan is geographically situated between China and India, but closely allied with India. [NYT / Jeffrey Gettleman and Javier Hernandez]
Raveendran/AFP/Getty Images
After a tense, 70-day standoff in a remote Himalayan border region, China and India are no longer on the brink of war. [CNN / Jim Griffiths]
The two countries mutually agreed to pull back their troops from the Doklam Plateau, located in the tiny neighboring country of Bhutan. Bhutan is geographically situated between China and India, but closely allied with India. [NYT / Jeffrey Gettleman and Javier Hernandez]
Παρασκευή 18 Αυγούστου 2017
Η Ινδία γίνεται 70 ετών
Η Ινδία γίνεται 70 ετών
Η μεγαλύτερη Δημοκρατία του κόσμου γιορτάζει τα γενέθλιά της
Madhav Khosla και Milan Vaishnav
Πριν από 70 χρόνια γεννήθηκε η ανεξάρτητη Ινδία [1]. Αφού αποτίναξε τον ζυγό της βρετανικής αυτοκρατορίας, η χώρα ξεκίνησε αυτό που ήταν -και παραμένει- το πιο ριζοσπαστικό δημοκρατικό πείραμα του κόσμου [2]. Ποτέ πριν ένα έθνος με τόσο χαμηλό επίπεδο κατά κεφαλήν εισοδήματος δεν επέκτεινε τα καθολικά δικαιώματα ψήφου στους πολίτες του˙ προσθέστε την ποικιλομορφία της τοπογραφίας, την απαράμιλλη εθνοτική και θρησκευτική ποικιλία, την κληρονομιά ενός κοινωνικά άκαμπτου και άνισου συστήματος με κάστες και το γεγονός ότι η Ινδία υπάρχει σε μια κατακερματισμένη γεωπολιτική γειτονιά, και η ακμάζουσα δημοκρατία της φαίνεται ακόμη πιο αξιοσημείωτη. Σήμερα, η χώρα διαθέτει περισσότερα από 1.000 πολιτικά κόμματα. Οι γυναίκες συμμετέχουν στην εκλογική διαδικασία σε μεγαλύτερο αριθμό από τους αντίστοιχους άνδρες. Ιστορικά μειονεκτούσες ομάδες, όπως οι Ντάλιτς (πρώην «ανέγγιχτοι»), ανασχηματίζουν την πολιτική και κερδίζουν κοινωνική κινητικότητα.
Άνθρωποι γιορτάζουν την Ημέρα Ανεξαρτησίας της Ινδίας στο Δελχί, τον Αύγουστο του 2017. ADNAN ABIDI / REUTERS
Η μεγαλύτερη Δημοκρατία του κόσμου γιορτάζει τα γενέθλιά της
Madhav Khosla και Milan Vaishnav
Πριν από 70 χρόνια γεννήθηκε η ανεξάρτητη Ινδία [1]. Αφού αποτίναξε τον ζυγό της βρετανικής αυτοκρατορίας, η χώρα ξεκίνησε αυτό που ήταν -και παραμένει- το πιο ριζοσπαστικό δημοκρατικό πείραμα του κόσμου [2]. Ποτέ πριν ένα έθνος με τόσο χαμηλό επίπεδο κατά κεφαλήν εισοδήματος δεν επέκτεινε τα καθολικά δικαιώματα ψήφου στους πολίτες του˙ προσθέστε την ποικιλομορφία της τοπογραφίας, την απαράμιλλη εθνοτική και θρησκευτική ποικιλία, την κληρονομιά ενός κοινωνικά άκαμπτου και άνισου συστήματος με κάστες και το γεγονός ότι η Ινδία υπάρχει σε μια κατακερματισμένη γεωπολιτική γειτονιά, και η ακμάζουσα δημοκρατία της φαίνεται ακόμη πιο αξιοσημείωτη. Σήμερα, η χώρα διαθέτει περισσότερα από 1.000 πολιτικά κόμματα. Οι γυναίκες συμμετέχουν στην εκλογική διαδικασία σε μεγαλύτερο αριθμό από τους αντίστοιχους άνδρες. Ιστορικά μειονεκτούσες ομάδες, όπως οι Ντάλιτς (πρώην «ανέγγιχτοι»), ανασχηματίζουν την πολιτική και κερδίζουν κοινωνική κινητικότητα.
Άνθρωποι γιορτάζουν την Ημέρα Ανεξαρτησίας της Ινδίας στο Δελχί, τον Αύγουστο του 2017. ADNAN ABIDI / REUTERS
Τετάρτη 26 Ιουλίου 2017
‘Open to talks but won’t quit Doklam’Rajat Pandit|
‘Open to talks but won’t quit Doklam’Rajat Pandit|
India has steadily established an “enhanced border management posture” near the tri-junction, say sources
Concurrently, diplomatic channels are being kept open despite the belligerent rhetoric from Chinese media
There are just about 300-400 soldiers from each side at the actual face-off site in the Doklam area
India wants China to adhere to the 2012 agreement between their two special representatives that the tri-junct...
NEW DELHI: India will remain "firm and resolute" on the ground or at the military level to thwart any attempt by China to "bully" Bhutan, while being "reasonable" at the politico-diplomatic level to resolve the ongoing troop stand-off with the People's Liberation Army in the Doklam area in Bhutanese territory, say sources.
India has steadily established an “enhanced border management posture” near the tri-junction, say sources
Concurrently, diplomatic channels are being kept open despite the belligerent rhetoric from Chinese media
There are just about 300-400 soldiers from each side at the actual face-off site in the Doklam area
India wants China to adhere to the 2012 agreement between their two special representatives that the tri-junct...NEW DELHI: India will remain "firm and resolute" on the ground or at the military level to thwart any attempt by China to "bully" Bhutan, while being "reasonable" at the politico-diplomatic level to resolve the ongoing troop stand-off with the People's Liberation Army in the Doklam area in Bhutanese territory, say sources.
Δευτέρα 10 Ιουλίου 2017
Why a 'cashless' society would hurt the poor—a lesson from India
Why a 'cashless' society would hurt the poor—a lesson from India
by Dana Kornberg, The Conversation
An Indian woman sorts reusable and recyclable materials from collected garbage in northeast Delhi. Credit: Dana Kornberg, Author provided
India recently tried to reduce the use of cash in its economy by eliminating, overnight, two of its most widely used bills in what was called demonetization.
by Dana Kornberg, The Conversation
An Indian woman sorts reusable and recyclable materials from collected garbage in northeast Delhi. Credit: Dana Kornberg, Author providedIndia recently tried to reduce the use of cash in its economy by eliminating, overnight, two of its most widely used bills in what was called demonetization.
Τετάρτη 5 Ιουλίου 2017
Indian Prime Minister lands in Israel to make history
Indian Prime Minister lands in Israel to make history
Today, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi became the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel. Modi thanked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and spoke at the reception ceremony.
Today (Tuesday), Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed at the Ben Gurion Airport for a historic first visit to Israel. Modi is the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Israel and the 3-day visit will mark 25 years of diplomatic ties between the countries.
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