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In his first remarks at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi set the tone for India's line of negotiations over the course of the next two weeks: "India's progress is our destiny and right of our people. But we must also lead in combating climate change."
Parliament has been adjourned after CPI(M)'s Mohammed Salim attributed a contentious remark to home minister Rajnath Singh: Of Modi being the first Hindu Prime Minister in 800 years. It's certainly a strange thing to say in a country that has only had Hindu and Sikh prime ministers.
India's pavilion at the U.N. Climate Change Conference, equipped with a waterfall with spelling patterns, an iPad village, and an interactive display of its challenges to counter global warming, has created quite a buzz.
Author Vikram Sampath is finding an outpouring of support after he announced his decision to step down as the organizer of the Bangalore Lit Fest.
Making the statement that he had come to Paris for, Modi said the developed countries needed to do much more not only because they had the “historical responsibility,” but also because they had more they had much more resources to take action on climate change.
Delhi Police has claimed that an employee at the Pakistan High Commission was involved in the alleged espionage network that was busted Sunday.
What is the law and legal precedent on standing up for the national anthem?
A prominent church, which had earlier this year invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to celebrate the elevation to sainthood of two of its members, has said that the victory of the Grand Alliance in Bihar is a verdict against "sectarian politics" and a "declaration by Indian conscience that it will not support political parties' attempts to use caste divisions, religious intolerance and sectarian mindset as campaign tools.'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today unveiled a quietly planned, fresh gambit for a thaw with Islamabad, walking up to his counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Paris, firmly shaking hands and sitting down for a chat three months after the nations aborted a planned dialogue.
Old sarees, which were lying unused in the storage, are in demand in Begva village in Dholka taluka of Ahmedabad district. The sarees have come to the rescue of farmers, who are harassed by marauding black bucks and neelgais (blue bulls) and wild boars.
Culture minister, Mahesh Sharma, on Monday told Lok Sabha on Monday, the government has not found any evidence that the Taj Mahal in Agra was a Hindu temple.
Criticizing journalists who wanted to take a selfie with Narendra Modi, Pamela Phillipose says, "There have been reams written about how the fourth estate must necessarily firewall itself from the other three estates of the executive, judiciary and legislature in order to hold them to account for the sake of a vibrant, functioning democracy, and yet, here the only thing we are holding up, it seems, is a smartphone."
Mehboob Jeelani ponders if we are seeing the emergence of a new Rahul Gandhi or he has succumbed to the system he allegedly repelled. "Perhaps the thought of being no-longer-so-young dynast is making him desperate, pushing him to take short cuts. The older system, which he’s dismissed as “rotten”, is roping him back in".
Ajith Balakrishnan explains the paradox of expensive education. "There is a global auction for professional middle-class jobs and that middle class parents have no choice but to use their financial and cultural assets to get their children the marketable knowledge, certificates and networks that the credentials of a brand-name university provides. If they don't do this, their children face the threat of downward social mobility."
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In his first remarks at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi set the tone for India's line of negotiations over the course of the next two weeks: "India's progress is our destiny and right of our people. But we must also lead in combating climate change."
Parliament has been adjourned after CPI(M)'s Mohammed Salim attributed a contentious remark to home minister Rajnath Singh: Of Modi being the first Hindu Prime Minister in 800 years. It's certainly a strange thing to say in a country that has only had Hindu and Sikh prime ministers.
India's pavilion at the U.N. Climate Change Conference, equipped with a waterfall with spelling patterns, an iPad village, and an interactive display of its challenges to counter global warming, has created quite a buzz.
Author Vikram Sampath is finding an outpouring of support after he announced his decision to step down as the organizer of the Bangalore Lit Fest.
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Making the statement that he had come to Paris for, Modi said the developed countries needed to do much more not only because they had the “historical responsibility,” but also because they had more they had much more resources to take action on climate change.
Delhi Police has claimed that an employee at the Pakistan High Commission was involved in the alleged espionage network that was busted Sunday.
What is the law and legal precedent on standing up for the national anthem?
A prominent church, which had earlier this year invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to celebrate the elevation to sainthood of two of its members, has said that the victory of the Grand Alliance in Bihar is a verdict against "sectarian politics" and a "declaration by Indian conscience that it will not support political parties' attempts to use caste divisions, religious intolerance and sectarian mindset as campaign tools.'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today unveiled a quietly planned, fresh gambit for a thaw with Islamabad, walking up to his counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Paris, firmly shaking hands and sitting down for a chat three months after the nations aborted a planned dialogue.
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Old sarees, which were lying unused in the storage, are in demand in Begva village in Dholka taluka of Ahmedabad district. The sarees have come to the rescue of farmers, who are harassed by marauding black bucks and neelgais (blue bulls) and wild boars.
Culture minister, Mahesh Sharma, on Monday told Lok Sabha on Monday, the government has not found any evidence that the Taj Mahal in Agra was a Hindu temple.
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Criticizing journalists who wanted to take a selfie with Narendra Modi, Pamela Phillipose says, "There have been reams written about how the fourth estate must necessarily firewall itself from the other three estates of the executive, judiciary and legislature in order to hold them to account for the sake of a vibrant, functioning democracy, and yet, here the only thing we are holding up, it seems, is a smartphone."
Mehboob Jeelani ponders if we are seeing the emergence of a new Rahul Gandhi or he has succumbed to the system he allegedly repelled. "Perhaps the thought of being no-longer-so-young dynast is making him desperate, pushing him to take short cuts. The older system, which he’s dismissed as “rotten”, is roping him back in".
Ajith Balakrishnan explains the paradox of expensive education. "There is a global auction for professional middle-class jobs and that middle class parents have no choice but to use their financial and cultural assets to get their children the marketable knowledge, certificates and networks that the credentials of a brand-name university provides. If they don't do this, their children face the threat of downward social mobility."
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