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1 month ago

North Korean soldiers 'willing to die' for Putin: The alliance raising global eyebrows

Thousands of North Korean soldiers are reportedly pledging their lives in support of Vladimir Putin's war effort in Ukraine. A Calculated Move by Kim Jong Un For North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, aligning with Russia serves multiple strategic purposes. Strengthening Ties with Moscow: The partnership deepens North Korea’s alliance with a key supporter, potentially providing access to essential resources …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Donald Trump’s win signals growing discontent with globalisation, says S Jaishankar at HTLS 2024

Live Mint

External affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday that the outcome of recentlty-held US Presidential Elections reflects the American electorate's growing dissatisfaction with the effects of globalisation. Jaishankar said that the victory of Donald Trump highlighted the undercurrents of disenchantment among voters who feel left behind by global economic and social shifts. “If the American political verdict is interpreted, it …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Harris to rally where Trump riled Capitol riot crowd

Raw Story

Kamala Harris will urge Americans to turn the page on Donald Trump as she delivers her closing election argument Tuesday on the spot where her rival rallied supporters before the January 6, 2021 US Capitol attack. But Harris will also deliver an "optimistic and hopeful" message, a senior campaign official said, amid rumblings in the party that she is focusing …

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2 months ago

Peruvian Theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez Dies at 96

Associated Press

Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez, the father of liberation theology, has died at 96. He was a prominent figure in social justice-centered liberation theology and was severely criticized by the Vatican for his Marxist views. Despite the Vatican's attempts to censure him, liberation theology remained influential in Latin America, with his 1971 book 'A Theology of Liberation' shaping the theological discourse …

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2 months ago

The Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian father of influential liberation theology, has died

LA Times

Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Peruvian theologian and father of the social justice-centered liberation theology that the Vatican once criticized for its Marxist undercurrents, has died. His 1971 book “A Theology of Liberation” had a profound impact by proposing a faith based on social justice focused on the poor, and positing that poverty “is a scandalous state, an attack on human dignity, …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Fissures appear in BJP-JDS alliance days before joint campaign

Hindustan Times

The lack of coordination between state units of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Janata Dal is responsible for the public disagreement among the allies about taking on Siddaramaiah’s regime in Karnataka. Former chief minister and Lingayat strongman BS Yediyurappa and Radha Mohan Das Agarwal, BJP’s national general secretary who is also in charge of Karnataka, are both advising state …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Move to oust EPS if AIADMK is drubbed

Deccan Chronicle

Chennai: A group of leaders in the AIADMK is reportedly planning to seek a change in leadership in the event of the party finishing behind the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections, whose results will be declared by June 4, with the sole aim of ousting the reigning general secretary, Edappadi K Palaniswami, by blaming him for the fiasco. Though …

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9 months ago

Explained: What is Hong Kong’s new security law, and what does Article 23 specify

The Hindu

The story so far: Hong Kong’s new security law has drawn widespread criticism from several Western countries, the United Nations and human rights groups, which contend that the “rushed” legislation will further threaten freedom and empower the government to suppress dissent in the financial hub. “New legislation under Article 23 will bring a further devastating blow to the city’s autonomy, …

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9 months ago

How will a new national security law affect different walks of life in Hong Kong?

Associated Press

HONG KONG — As Hong Kong passed a new national security law, the city that evolved from a swampy fishing village to a financial center embarked on another transformation, one that may redefine its role on the world stage and the liberties of its citizens. Hong Kong’s mini-constitution, the Basic Law, requires the city to enact a home-grown national security …

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9 months, 1 week ago

IUML rebel K.S. Hamza reposes faith in Ponnani’s political undercurrents

The Hindu

Indian Union Muslim League rebel K.S. The influence Mr. Hamza wields, particularly in the traditional Muslim community in Ponnani, is a matter of concern for his IUML rival Abdussamad Samadani. I was parliamentary committee chairman of the UDF in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Alathur, where Ramya Haridas successfully contested. The LDF camp in Ponnani has been exceptionally brisk, …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Hong Kong begins work on its own National Security Law, years after a similar law crushed dissent

The Hindu

Hong Kong began public consultation on a local National Security Law on January 30, more than three years after Beijing imposed a similar law that has all but wiped out dissent in the semi-autonomous city. Hong Kong’s mini-constitution, the Basic Law, calls for the city to enact a national security law, but it's been delayed for decades because of widespread …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Hong Kong begins work on its own National Security Law, years after a similar law crushed dissent

Associated Press

HONG KONG — Hong Kong began public consultation on a local National Security Law on Tuesday, more than three years after Beijing imposed a similar law that has all but wiped out dissent in the semi-autonomous city. Hong Kong’s mini-constitution, the Basic Law, calls for the city to enact a national security law, but it’s been delayed for decades because …

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11 months ago

Undercurrents of the Pakistan, Iran strikes

Hindustan Times

Never was there a better example of a domino effect. A furious Pakistan declared that Iran should have used the many channels of communication that existed instead of an ‘unprovoked’ attack on Panjgur in Balochistan using drones and missiles. Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said attacks targeted an “Iranian terrorist group” and that “…none of the nationals of the friendly …

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1 year ago

Chhattisgarh | The windfall state

India Today

Every once in a while comes an election in India that tests the limits of psephology. The comfortably placed Congress led by Bhupesh Baghel, which had been voted to power with the most comprehensive mandate in the state’s history, saw a chastening defeat at the hands of the Bharatiya Janata Party, a party that had ruled Chhattisgarh for 15 years …

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1 year, 1 month ago

DC Edit | Sunak's political gamble may be too little, too late

Deccan Chronicle

In one desperate last throw of the dice like a gambler on a losing streak, Rishi Sunak, UK’s Tory Prime Minister, made startling Cabinet changes even as the Opposition Labour has been stealing a 20-point lead in popularity polls after 13 years of Conservative rule. Having promised ‘change’ at a recent party conclave, Mr Sunak, in a bid to placate …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Chennai: the city that accommodates diversity and inclusion

The Hindu

Polarisation is what strikes you when you see India today. It is still not established by fact that the Kapaleeswarar Temple was demolished by the Portuguese to make way for a church, though Whatsapp may claim otherwise. And there is a line that the leaders of today would do well to ponder over – “He did not see why poor …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Team ‘Made in Heaven’ on marriages: Not an endogamous monolith

The Hindu

Four years ago, when the first season of Made in Heaven released on Amazon Prime Video India, it was largely a shot in the dark. “We were encouraged by how seen and heard people felt.” Created by Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti — also behind the critical hit Dahaad earlier this year — Made in Heaven tracks two upstart Delhi …

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1 year, 7 months ago

‘Coming together of DSS factions helped consolidation of SC communities’

The Hindu

An impressive performance by the Congress in winning over half of the seats reserved for Scheduled Castes and support by the community in general constituencies across the State is being seen through the perspective of various Dalit factions coming together for the first time in over three decades. Though elevation of Mallikarjuna Kharge as the Congress president is being speculated …

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1 year, 7 months ago

OPINION At 82, Sharad Pawar Continues To Be The Machiavelli of Indian Politics

ABP News

At an age when most of his contemporaries have either retired or have left the world, Sharad Pawar continues to call the shots in Maharashtra and national politics. In 2019, when Maharashtra was witnessing an unprecedented political upheaval, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut famously commented — "One has to take a hundred births to understand the mind of Sharad Pawar.” …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Review: ‘Suzume,’ about a girl who falls for a chair, is worth the price of a seat

LA Times

Admirers of the gifted Japanese writer-director Makoto Shinkai will recognize his touch from the opening moments of his often entrancing new animated feature, “Suzume.” An affecting story about love and salvation, loss and memory, the movie opens on a dark-blue sky kissed by pastel-sunset pinks and purples, with stars that gleam like perfectly inlaid jewels. You might expect to see …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Allaying the fears of migrants in Tamil Nadu

The Hindu

In June 2018, a Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation conductor in Erode installed the destination board, Perundurai Market, in English and Hindi on his Route 17 bus. The conductor was suspended for using an “unauthorised destination board.” Cut to March 2023, different arms of the Tamil Nadu government, particularly the police, the Labour Department and district administrations, are busy issuing …

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1 year, 11 months ago

McCarthy fails for 3rd day in bitter GOP House speaker fight

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — For a long and frustrating third day, divided Republicans kept the speaker’s chair of the U.S. House empty Thursday, as party leader Kevin McCarthy failed again and again in an excruciating string of ballots to win enough GOP votes to seize the chamber’s gavel. At the core is the reinstatement of a House rule that would allow a …

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2 years ago

Anand K. Sahay | Kashmir still plagued by undercurrents of crisis

Deccan Chronicle

Many Kashmiri Pandits who didn’t leave the Valley even in the high noon of terrorism in the early 1990s are now leaving, slowly. The killing of Pandits on a regular basis since 2021 -- with the government at a loss to understand what’s going on -- has taken its toll. When on August 5, 2019 the Narendra Modi government dropped …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Asian football boss urges support, not ‘cynicism’ for World Cup

The Hindu

Asia’s football chief called for support for the Qatar World Cup on Saturday despite the “deep undercurrents of cynicism” that have marked the build-up to the event. Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa praised Qatar’s “extraordinary efforts” in hosting the tournament, and said a successful World Cup is “the need of the hour. “But no other sport has the unique …

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North Korean soldiers 'willing to die' for Putin: The alliance raising global eyebrows

Donald Trump’s win signals growing discontent with globalisation, says S Jaishankar at HTLS 2024

Harris to rally where Trump riled Capitol riot crowd

Peruvian Theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez Dies at 96

The Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian father of influential liberation theology, has died

Fissures appear in BJP-JDS alliance days before joint campaign

Move to oust EPS if AIADMK is drubbed

Explained: What is Hong Kong’s new security law, and what does Article 23 specify

How will a new national security law affect different walks of life in Hong Kong?

IUML rebel K.S. Hamza reposes faith in Ponnani’s political undercurrents

Hong Kong begins work on its own National Security Law, years after a similar law crushed dissent

Hong Kong begins work on its own National Security Law, years after a similar law crushed dissent

Undercurrents of the Pakistan, Iran strikes

Chhattisgarh | The windfall state

DC Edit | Sunak's political gamble may be too little, too late

Chennai: the city that accommodates diversity and inclusion

Team ‘Made in Heaven’ on marriages: Not an endogamous monolith

‘Coming together of DSS factions helped consolidation of SC communities’

OPINION At 82, Sharad Pawar Continues To Be The Machiavelli of Indian Politics

Review: ‘Suzume,’ about a girl who falls for a chair, is worth the price of a seat

Allaying the fears of migrants in Tamil Nadu

McCarthy fails for 3rd day in bitter GOP House speaker fight

Anand K. Sahay | Kashmir still plagued by undercurrents of crisis

Asian football boss urges support, not ‘cynicism’ for World Cup