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Azaan Not Important To Play Through Loudspeakers: Punjab And Chandigarh HC

Gunjan ChaudharyApril 14, 20220

Raj Thackeray has warned courts that loudspeakers installed at mosques in Maharashtra should be switched off by May 3, otherwise MNS workers will recite Hanuman Chalisa by using loudspeakers. After this statement of Thackeray, the debate has again erupted across the country regarding loudspeakers. This is not the first time that this controversy regarding the loudspeaker of the mosque and the spread of Azaan through it had begun. Even before this, many times earlier in the country there has been a ruckus over Azaan with loudspeakers. The matter also reached the court. MNS chief Raj Thackeray was addressing a program. He said, 'The loudspeakers in mosques should be switched off by May 3, otherwise we will recite Hanuman Chalisa with loudspeakers. This is a social issue, not religio...

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Time To Limit Global Warming Is Running Out: IPCC Report

Sonia SolankiApril 13, 20220

The latest IPCC report says "The negative effects of climate change are worsening much faster than scientists predicted less than a decade ago and the time to limit global warming is running out". The report is titled 'Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change'. This is the third instalment of the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report. What Is IPCC And Its Aim IPCC stands for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It is a United Nations-governed body that assesses climate change in a scientific manner.  It was created by the MWO (World Meteorological Organisation) and UNEP ( United Nations Environment Programme) in the year 1988. The main aim of the IPCC is to provide governments with scientific information, at different levels, that helps in making the climate policies of th...

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IPCC Report Highlights How Smart Cities Can Help In Coping With Temperature Change; What India Can Learn From It?

Pooja YadavApril 13, 20220

The Union budget 2022 had announced the formation of a high-level committee of planners, economists and institutions to create recommendations on urban sector policies. The minister of finance said that by the time India turns 100, nearly half the population are going to be living in urban areas, making it imperative to not only nurture India’s megacities but also facilitate tier-2 and tier-3 cities to set for the long run. India is witnessing and observing one of the most important urban growth spurts in history ever. However, three-quarters of the infrastructure that may exist in cities by 2050 is yet to be built. This presents Indian cities with an unprecedented opportunity to appear in urban planning and development through a long-term strategic lens to enable economic, en...

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Does Pakistan Really Want To Have Peace Talks With India Or Its Just An Illusion?

Pooja YadavApril 12, 20220

Pakistan army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa seems able to resume talks on Kashmir with India, a process that was interrupted by General Pervez Musharraf’s ouster in 2008. What’s more, he's happy to try and do so under Musharraf’s ‘four-point formula’, senior Pakistan Army officers told this author at the Islamabad Security Dialogue, which was persevered on April 1 and a pair. Interestingly, on the primary day of the conference, Moeed Yusuf, who was then the national security advisor, also told the author in a casual chat that the Musharraf formula might be the premise of bilateral interaction between India and Pakistan. Yusuf resigned from his position just after Pakistan President Arif Alvi ordered the dissolution of the national assembly. The formula, in brief, had four step...

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Centre Passes Criminal Procedure Identification Bill; Issues Raised On Implementation

Pooja YadavApril 11, 20220

recently, the govt introduced and passed the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill within the Lok Sabha, seeking to switch the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920 which regulates how the police can gather data from convicted or suspected criminals. The Bill exemplifies the present trend to pass laws that are crammed with ambiguity and lack safeguards. It also reflects a desire to expand the facility of the govt. to interfere with the lives of citizens. The Bill was passed, the kind of information collected by the police would shift dramatically, from basic fingerprint and footprint impressions to a variety of other samples, including iris and retina scans, behavioural attributes, and “biological samples”. The National Crime Records Bureau would hold the collected data for 75 yea...

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Constitution Has No Meaning Without Institutions: Rahul Gandhi

Sonia SolankiApril 11, 20220

Rahul Gandhi, at a recent book launch event, The Dalit Truth, talked about the weakening of Constitutional Institutions. Rahul said, "Constitution has no meaning without the institutions." He said that the biggest weapon of a democratic nation is the Constitution. "As it gives us the power to stand for equality. Also, it gives us the power to execute our right to choose not only the government but to speak against it, when it fails to deliver," he said. The Book "The Dalit Truth" is written by K.Raju. This book talks about the social discrimination of the people belonging to the Dalit caste and also their use as a vote bank. Rahul Talks On Misuse Of Institutions This is not the first time that the Congress leader has spoken against the BJP and its founding organisation RSS on a...

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IMF Praises India’s PMGKAY; How This Scheme Provides Food Security And Controls Poverty?

Pooja YadavApril 11, 20220

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has praised India’s efforts for food distribution during the COVID-19 pandemic. They said that the state averted extreme poverty rise during this era by providing food security through the govt initiative Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY). The IMF has also stated that India’s extreme poverty is a smaller amount than 1%and this was also maintained in 2020. The IMF presented a research paper based on the consumption and poverty estimates in India during the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper had a title called ‘Pandemic, Poverty, and Inequality: Evidence from India.’The Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana played an enormous role in preventing the rise in extreme poverty levels across the state. As India’s food subsidy program w...

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Find Out How Damage Prone Social Media Platforms Can Exist In A Framework Of Democracy

Pooja YadavApril 11, 20220

Social media platforms have efficiently and effectively supplanted traditional information networks in India. The dialectical relationship between online content, traditional media and political networks means the messages propagated online effectively touch even people who don't seem to be digitally literate. This ubiquity could be a golden moment for India — democratising access to information, fostering community, increasing citizen participation and reducing the space between ordinary people and decision-makers. However, social media platforms have adopted certain designs of choices that have led to a proliferation and mainstreaming of misinformation while allowing themselves to be weaponised by powerful vested interests for political and commercial benefit. the ensuing fr...

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Vaccination Drive To Delay Or Not?: Booster Dose Open At Private Centers Only

Sonia SolankiApril 11, 20220

Booster Dose is now open to all adults from 10th April 2022 onwards as the centre approves it. As per the guidelines, the gap between the second dose and the third dose needs to be a minimum of nine months. But talking of the free vaccination programme, vaccinating the adult population of India with two doses will remain unaltered. Along with this, the booster dose for senior citizens, frontline workers, and healthcare workers will continue at a much higher pace. The Union health minister Mansukh  Mandaviya tweeted the centre's decision of elaborating the vaccination programme "Adding an extra layer of safety! precaution dose to be available to 18+ age group from 10th April 2022 at private centres. All 18+ those who have completed nine months after the administration of the second do...

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Northeastern Ashta Lakshmi’s AFSPA Reforms And Partial Settlement Of The Assam-Meghalaya Border May Change The Game!

Sayani ChakrabortyApril 9, 20220

Last week's events in the Northeastern states were a watershed moment in history. The chief ministers of Assam and Meghalaya agreed to settle boundary disputes in six of the twelve disputed areas, reducing the area covered by the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). Ashta Lakshmi, coined by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, refers to the eight Indian states. Many stalled infrastructure projects have been expedited, which is to the credit of the NDA administration in power at the national level. In spite of the fact that Parliament must yet ratify the mutually agreed-upon border solution, this was the first time a problem that had generated friction and even violence at the border had been elevated to the level of CMs. Members of a regional committee also went out into the di

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Will It Be Right To Ban Freebies Schemes In Heavy Debt Ridden States In India? Read To Know!!

Gunjan ChaudharyApril 9, 20220

Like Sri Lanka, many Indian states like Punjab, Rajasthan, West Bengal are also entangled in a huge debt trap. If there was no center support, then these states too would have become financially poor like Sri Lanka. Like the states, the central government is also getting entangled in the debt trap. To save the country from economic crisis, economic experts are advising to gradually reduce subsidies in items like agriculture and health and ban freebies schemes. But will it be the right decision to put a complete ban on the schemes being provided to the poor in a country like India? Economic Affairs expert Dr. Nagendra Kumar Sharma told that taking loan is beneficial only when the loan amount is used to generate financial resources. But the report of the Reserve Bank of India shows that m...

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Vegetable Price Hike Raising Concerns: Understand Its Causes And Impact

Pooja YadavApril 9, 20220

Domestic edible oil prices are likely to increase 10-15% within the short term after Indonesia, the world’s largest producer and exporter of oil, has announced a ban on its export from April 28, industry officials said. Sunflower oil supplies in India have already been affected because of the Ukraine-Russia war, adding pressure to household budgets. Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Friday announced the suspension of all oil and material exports from April 28 until further orders. The choice comes in the wake of a severe shortage and skyrocketing prices for edible oil within the southeast state. Indonesia is experiencing domestic shortages and the govt has been forced to place curbs on shipments and introduce price controls. For the year 2021-22 (October to September), Indonesi...

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