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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Merriam-Webster announces ‘polarisation’ as 2024 word of the year

The term has been most frequently used in the US before elections to describe race relations, politics, ideology. “Polarisation means division, but it’s a very specific kind of division,” said Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’s editor at large, before Monday’s announcement. “It’s a kind of backstop for meaning in an era of fake news, alternative facts, whatever you want to say about …

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2 weeks, 2 days ago

JMM’s Victory in Jharkhand: Tribal Trust, Welfare Schemes, and BJP’s Failed Attempt of Polarisation

The Hindu

Published : Dec 08, 2024 17:51 IST - 9 MINS READ When Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader Hemant Soren took oath for the fourth time as Chief Minister of Jharkhand on November 28, the State re-elected an incumbent government for the first time in the 24 years since it was carved out of Bihar in 2000. This year, the factors that …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

Polarisation? Extreme reactions disrupt 'word of the year' vote

Dutch News

The Van Dale dictionary company has abandoned this year’s “word of the year” competition because of the reactions to the shortlist on social media and has instead opted for polarisatie. The messaging around these words has turned into a very unpleasant discussion, far removed from the aims of the election.” Every year Van Dale nominates a short-list of 10 words …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Polarisation? Again, why only 10 Muslim MLAs in new Maharashtra assembly

India Today

Maharashtra’s Muslims—12 per cent of the state’s 125 million people but for long politically underrepresented—have 10 MLAs from the community in the new 288-member legislative assembly, the same as in 2019. The highest number of Muslim MLAs belong to the Congress, followed by the Samajwadi Party and Nationalist Congress Party of deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar. The 2009 elections to …

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1 month ago

How Mahayuti won Maharashtra: The four trump cards

India Today

The BJP-led Mahayuti’s swashbuckling assembly election victory in Maharashtra, just six months into big setbacks at the hands of the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi in the parliamentary polls, has come on four dominant factors: cash, caste, crops and communal polarisation. CASH The state government’s Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana covering over 23 million women, and under which beneficiaries from indigent …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Maratha quota protests handiwork of Opposition: Dhananjay Munde

India Today

Senior Nationalist Congress Party leader and Maharashtra agriculture minister Dhananjay Munde, who is facing a likely Maratha polarisation in his constituency of Parli in the assembly elections, says there is politics at play behind the protests seeking quotas for Marathas and that the Opposition camp is involved in it. In the Lok Sabha elections, his cousin and former minister Pankaja …

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1 month, 1 week ago

BJP’s campaign in Jharkhand focuses solely on communal polarisation, says Congress

The Hindu

The BJP’s campaign for the Jharkhand Assembly election is solely focused on communal polarisation, the Congress said on Monday. The Congress’ charge comes a day after party general secretary Jairam Ramesh filed a complaint with the Election Commission regarding regarding “false and misleading videos” posted by the BJP’s Jharkhand unit on its official social media handles On Monday, in a …

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3 months ago

Trump assassination attempt: Toxic polarisation of American politics is a threat to democracies everywhere

Firstpost

A Trump supporter wears T-shirt depicting Donald Trump. Far from the legacy of leading a global democratic revival, Biden may go down in history as a president who oversaw a stunning decline in America’s status as a well-functioning democracy, and a leader who presided over a viscerally divided, volatile, polarized nation that believes in violent retribution against political rivals and …

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4 months ago

VIDEO: Obama brings huge support for Harris, polarisation warning if Trump gets second term | TAKEAWAYS

India TV News

Warning of a difficult fight ahead, former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama on Tuesday called on the nation to embrace Kamala Harris in urgent messages to the Democratic National Convention that were at times both hopeful and ominous. She then tore into Republican Donald Trump, a sharp shift from the 2016 convention speech in which she told her party, …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Video- Hindu-Muslim Polarisation in Telangana During the General Election

The Hindu

Unlike the 2014 and 2019 parliament elections in Telangana after the state was formed after bifurcation, the 2024 elections have seen communal polarisation in more than half a dozen constituencies. This election has seen how voters were divided on communal lines in Adilabad, Nizamabad and Karimnagar Lok Sabha seats represented by the BJP MPs. The open assertion that the BJP …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Polarisation of Muslim votes likely to block BJP’s Bengal LS target

Hindustan Times

Kolkata: Seventeen months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a Bharatiya Janata Party national executive meet in Delhi that his party should reach out to Muslims, especially those from the economically backward strata, the minority community may have emerged as a major hindrance to the saffron camp’s target of winning 30 of Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha seats in the …

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7 months ago

Amid global polarisation, the pandemic agreement encourages cooperation

Al Jazeera

The treaty under negotiation is a life-saving tool that will ensure no one is left behind when the next pandemic strikes. This spurred a decision, by the 194 Member States of the World Health Organization, to undertake two landmark, parallel efforts: to start negotiating a first-ever pandemic agreement to prevent, prepare for and respond to pandemics, while at the same …

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7 months ago

PM Modi on polarisation charge: 'Never spoke against minorities, but will not accept any special citizens'

India TV News

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Stating that the Bharatiya Janata Party has “not just today but never” acted against minorities, Prime Minister Narendra Modi underlined that he is not ready to accept anyone as “special citizens”. The Prime Minister accused the Congress of constantly violating the secular spirit of the Constitution and said that his campaign speeches are aimed at exposing …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Communal polarisation dominate election campaign in Telangana

The Hindu

Elections, so far, in Telangana have seen minimal communal polarisation but does not seem so if the mood of the voters in several parliamentary constituencies is any indication. Surprisingly, key issues that used to be the core of the election campaign now seemed confined to two aspects — one is to seek votes showcasing the construction of Ram Mandir at …

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8 months ago

Interview | Punjab will vote on our performance, BJP’s polarisation card won’t work: Bhagwant Mann

Hindustan Times

The arrest of Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal since March 21 has thrust Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann, 50, into a challenging task in the run-up to the general elections. As one of the key faces in the opposition INDIA bloc, he is pivoting the AAP’s sweepstakes on 22 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab, …

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8 months ago

The tactically silent Indian Muslim voter

Hindustan Times

Uttar Pradesh has just finished its first phase of Lok Sabha elections and several recent reports have shown that Muslims have observed a “tactical silence” in this election. First, we must reject historical essentialisation — a view of the community that assumes a special historical continuity between the Muslim monarchs of India and Muslims in India today. This view of …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Poll promises vs delivery amid rise in polarisation

Deccan Chronicle

Elections serve many purposes. The 2024 Lok Sabha elections about to get underway will be a great war, of words, principles and agendas, in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi will face the toughest challenge of his political life. By making purity and pollution in terms of religious practice central to the Indian election, Mr Modi’s counter to the Opposition is …

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8 months, 1 week ago

As campaign heat intensifies, poll pitch for subtle polarisation gets intense in west U.P.

Hindustan Times

With less than a week to go for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, contentious issues are coming to the forefront of the campaign rhetoric in the state’s western region, which has a significant Muslim population and communal fault lines, as terms like “exodus”, “curfew”, “fatwa” and “riots” are coming into play. The BJP is raking …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Like Amar Singh Chamkila, Imtiaz Ali has made a career out of polarisation

Hindustan Times

With Amar Singh Chamkila, Imtiaz Ali comes home. Imtiaz Ali's latest film is a biopic of Amar Singh Chamkila starring Diljit Dosanjh Like Chamkila, Like Imtiaz But what makes Chamkila a very personal story for Imtiaz is the parallel between the filmmaker and the late Punjabi singer. But Imtiaz, like Chamkila, keeps hammering his ideas home – because as the …

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9 months, 1 week ago

India ranks 134th in global human development index, says UNDP report

The Hindu

March 15, 2024 12:27 am | Updated 07:43 am IST India has moved up a rank on the global Human Development Index, according to the United Nations Development Programme report ‘Breaking the gridlock: Reimagining cooperation in a polarised world’ released on March 13. India’s southern neighbour Sri Lanka has been ranked much ahead at 78, while China is ranked 75, …

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11 months ago

Analysing the rising gap in incomes

The Hindu

According to a recent report by the State Bank of India, India has witnessed a significant fall in inequality over the last decade. Examining taxpayer data, the report claims that the Gini coefficient — a standard measure of inequality that ranges from 0, indicating perfect equality, to 1, indicating perfect inequality — has fallen from 0.472 in 2014-15 to 0.402 …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

PSLV-C58 XPoSat: Why did ISRO launch X-Ray polarimetre satellite? What's the mission objective?

Hindustan Times

On the first day of the New Year, the ISRO on Monday successfully launched its maiden X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite or XPoSat that would offer several insights into celestial objects like black holes. The ISRO's ever-reliable Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle in its C58 mission, placed the primary XPoSat into a 650 Km Low Earth Orbit as intended after lifting off at …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

ISRO to launch XPoSat on Jan 1: When and where to watch live

Live Mint

The Indian Space Research Organisation is set to launch its first mission of the year 2024 on Monday, January 1. "XPoSat is India’s first dedicated polarimetry mission to study various dynamics of bright astronomical X-ray sources in extreme conditions," the ISRO said. DD National's account on X All about XPoSat XPoSat is the "first dedicated scientific satellite from the ISRO …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

ISRO to study black holes; launch of X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite today

Live Mint

The Indian Space Research Organisation is set to welcome the new year with the launch of its first X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite that would offer insights into celestial objects like black holes, onboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket today i.e. PSLV rocket The 44.4-meter-tall PSLV rocket would first deploy the primary satellite into a 650 km Low Earth Orbit around …

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Merriam-Webster announces ‘polarisation’ as 2024 word of the year

JMM’s Victory in Jharkhand: Tribal Trust, Welfare Schemes, and BJP’s Failed Attempt of Polarisation

Polarisation? Extreme reactions disrupt 'word of the year' vote

Polarisation? Again, why only 10 Muslim MLAs in new Maharashtra assembly

How Mahayuti won Maharashtra: The four trump cards

Maratha quota protests handiwork of Opposition: Dhananjay Munde

BJP’s campaign in Jharkhand focuses solely on communal polarisation, says Congress

Trump assassination attempt: Toxic polarisation of American politics is a threat to democracies everywhere

VIDEO: Obama brings huge support for Harris, polarisation warning if Trump gets second term | TAKEAWAYS

Video- Hindu-Muslim Polarisation in Telangana During the General Election

Polarisation of Muslim votes likely to block BJP’s Bengal LS target

Amid global polarisation, the pandemic agreement encourages cooperation

PM Modi on polarisation charge: 'Never spoke against minorities, but will not accept any special citizens'

Communal polarisation dominate election campaign in Telangana

Interview | Punjab will vote on our performance, BJP’s polarisation card won’t work: Bhagwant Mann

The tactically silent Indian Muslim voter

Shikha Mukerjee | Poll promises vs delivery amid rise in polarisation

As campaign heat intensifies, poll pitch for subtle polarisation gets intense in west U.P.

Like Amar Singh Chamkila, Imtiaz Ali has made a career out of polarisation

India ranks 134th in global human development index, says UNDP report

Analysing the rising gap in incomes

PSLV-C58 XPoSat: Why did ISRO launch X-Ray polarimetre satellite? What's the mission objective?

ISRO to launch XPoSat on Jan 1: When and where to watch live

ISRO to study black holes; launch of X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite today