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Veil: As France moves to ban abaya, Indonesian teacher shaves 14 girls’ heads on hijab issue

August 28, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid protests, France moved on Monday to ban the wearing in schools of abaya dresses by Muslim girls, Indonesia imposed a strict dress code in schools, shaving off the heads of 14 female students for not wearing the veil ‘properly.’ Last year, millions of angry women hit the roads across […]

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Countering Turkiye: India and Greece elevate ties to defense, “strategic partnership”

August 25, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For years, Turkey (now Turkiye) has been supporting Pakistan on the defunct Kashmir issue. Despite New Delhi quickly sending humanitarian assistance in February 2023 following a massive earthquake, that claimed thousands of lives, Ankara continued to side with Islamabad on all international forums. Now, in a tit-for-tat, India has decided […]

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AI&DS: AICTE partners with Jio Institute for faculty development programs

August 18, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Mumbai: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has partnered with Jio Institute for a Faculty Development Program on Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (AI&DS). This collaborative endeavor is being initiated under the ambit of AICTE’s ATAL (AICTE Training and Learning) program, which is designed to upskill and reskill faculty members from AICTE-approved institutions, according to […]

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Technology: Environmentalists exit en masse from Elon Musk-run X

August 16, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Environmentalists have exited en masse from the Elon Musk-run microblogging platform Twitter-turned-X, the media reported on Wednesday. Nearly half the environmentalists active on Twitter, now X, left the platform in the 6 months following Musk’s takeover, which could have serious implications for public discourse surrounding issues such as biodiversity, climate […]

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Women: Iran sends anti-Hijab activists to psychiatrists, clean morgues

August 7, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After lying low for a few months, Iran is punishing anti-Hijab women activists with psychiatric treatment, cleaning of morgues, and other means, the media reported. A court in Tehran province sentenced a woman to spend a month cleaning corpses in a morgue when she was caught driving without a hijab. […]

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Roving Periscope: Earth enters the “era of global boiling”, says UN chief

July 28, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Three days before the month of August begins, the United Nations has said July 2023 was the “hottest month” ever recorded worldwide. Some experts believe that July might well be the warmest month in the past 120,000 years. Amid blistering heatwaves in several countries, July is “virtually certain” to be […]

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Pollution: India, France to bolster talks with nations to end the plastic menace

July 15, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India and France will step up their collaboration in combating climate change and in environmental protection, and constructively engage other like-minded countries to strengthen the negotiations for an international legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution. After talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris […]

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Media: Now, the BBC ‘covers up’ the anchor’s name after sexual pictures payoff

July 10, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Weeks after flouting tax norms in India and its disgraced chairman quitting on corruption charges, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), a self-proclaimed defender of ‘free’ journalism worldwide, is now being accused of not disclosing the name of an anchor, suspended for payments in a sex scandal. The media reported on […]

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Green Cards: Thousands of Indian-Americans may benefit

July 7, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Thousands of Indian-Americans are expected to benefit from the latest US move on providing green cards to them after a US President’s Advisory Commission approved that over 230,000 unused cards for family and employment categories since 1992 be recaptured. A green card, officially known as a Permanent Resident Card (PRC), […]

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Economy: India’s growth sustainable, FinMin says, and cautions against headwinds

July 6, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Noting that the Indian economy grew by 7.2 percent in 2022-23, especially in its last quarter (January-March 2023), the Finance Ministry on Thursday said the country will continue to register sustained growth in a more durable way than before—but also cautioned about the possible headwinds that could pose major challenges, […]