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India ‘one of the worst autocratisers’: V-Dem report on democracy
9 months, 1 week ago

India ‘one of the worst autocratisers’: V-Dem report on democracy

The Hindu  

India, which was downgraded to the status of an “electoral autocracy” in 2018, has declined even further on multiple metrics to emerge as “one of the worst autocratizers”, according to the ‘Democracy Report 2024’ released by the Gothenburg-based V-Dem Institute that tracks democratic freedoms worldwide. The level of democracy enjoyed by the “average person in the world is down to …

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Liz Truss hits out at economists and civil servants as she defends mini-budget
1 year, 3 months ago

Liz Truss hits out at economists and civil servants as she defends mini-budget

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Certainly as a politician, trying to deliver what I …

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Disappearing languages, vanishing voices
1 year, 3 months ago

Disappearing languages, vanishing voices

The Hindu  

English as a common language in India has been acting as a thread by connecting multilingual Indians since the time of the British Raj. A forecast of language extinction An estimated 7,000 distinct languages are spoken as a mother tongue across the world. Mother tongues of about half the people in the world belong to a pool of 10 most …

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BT’s £39bn pension fund cuts UK investments in blow to Hunt’s Big Bang 2.0 ambitions
1 year, 6 months ago

BT’s £39bn pension fund cuts UK investments in blow to Hunt’s Big Bang 2.0 ambitions

The Telegraph  

Baroness Altmann said: “It’s an outrage that a major pension fund, especially one underpinned to some degree by the Government and funded to a significant degree by taxpayer money, is not supporting the British economy. “If you don’t have domestic sources of long-term funding supporting your own economy, then however much you believe you’re going to get a better return …

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Not just economy, democratic values have also been collapsing in Sri Lanka
2 years, 5 months ago

Not just economy, democratic values have also been collapsing in Sri Lanka

India Today  

On the brink of a collapse caused by economic turmoil and financial disruptions, the situation in Sri Lanka has become highly precarious for nearly 21 million people. DECLINING DEMOCRATIC VALUES According to the Sweden-based V-Dem Institute, the Liberal Democracy Index has constantly declined in Sri Lanka since 2018. The V-Dem institute's latest report, Democracy Report 2022: Autocratisation Changing Nature, released …

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The Downgrading of India’s Democracy
2 years, 8 months ago

The Downgrading of India’s Democracy

The Diplomat  

India’s democracy is in peril. Of 179 countries assessed in the 2022 report, India stands 93rd on the V-Dem’s Liberal Democracy Index and 100th in the Electoral Democracy Index. The U.S.-based Freedom House described India as a “partly free democracy” in its Freedom in the World 2022 report and gave it a”Global Freedom Score’” of 66 out of 100 – …

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