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Will Modi Government Recognize Taliban Rule As India Re-opens Embassy In Kabul!!

Gunjan ChaudharyAugust 25, 20220

India has reopened its embassy in Afghanistan after the return of the Taliban to power. At present, a team of 60 to 70 officers and staff is stationed at the Kabul embassy. This team has been deployed under the leadership of a senior officer of the Indian Foreign Service. Initially, in the month of June, India had sent a technical team to take the search information of its embassy and consulates general. This deployment is practically being described as India's official diplomatic relationship with the Taliban. But, officially India has not yet established any relationship with the interim government of Taliban. In such a situation, the question arises whether India will restore diplomatic relations with the banned terrorist organization Taliban in the United Nations. India has been say...

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Hong Kong’s exodus on rise
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Hong Kong’s Exodus On Rise: How It Changes Demography?

Dr. Kankana DebnathAugust 25, 20220

Hong Kong, the Special administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China has recorded a sharp decline in population due to exodus. Hong Kong’s exodus is on the rise due to strict Covid control measures and political crackdown by the Chinese government. According to Census and Statistics Department the city's total population fell from 7.41 million people to 7.29 million. This happens to be the biggest decline since the government began tracking the statistics in 1961. The decline through the years Hong Kong’s exodus is on rise since the pro-democracy protests of 2019 and 2020. This was the time when the government carried out a heavy crackdowns on civil liberties. Following this nearly 90,000 residents have left the territory. Around 113,200 residents left Hong Kong over the past ...

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Hate crimes against Asians
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The Changing American Society: Hate Crimes Against Asians In US On Rise

Dr. Kankana DebnathAugust 25, 20220

Since past several years hate crimes against the Asians in the US are at rise. It appears that the hate is aimed against anyone who doesn’t follow the ideologies or agenda which is deemed as “American”. The concept to “embrace people for their differences” has been disappearing from the minds of American citizens. The US was considered as a nation that was an amalgamation of different people who were accepted without any bias of their ethnicity. But now that concept is being replaced by a “us and them” mentality. What is a hate crime? The Federal Bureau of Investigation defines a hate crime as a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender ident...

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Sexual Harassment Complaint Invalid If Woman Wears ‘Provocative Dress’: Kerala Court

Arpita SarkarAugust 18, 20220

A court in Kozhikode, Kerala has said that a case of sexual harassment under Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) will not stand prima facie if the woman is wearing "sexually provocative dresses." The Sessions Judge, S Krishna Kumar, observed that to attract the offense under Section 354, there must be some unwanted sexual advances but in the instant case, the complainant's photographs showed her "exposing herself in provocative dresses". The court said, "In order to attract this Section, there must be a physical contact and advances involving unwelcome and explicit sexual overtures. There must be a demand or request for sexual favours. There must be sexually colored remarks. The photographs produced along with the bail application by the accused would reveal that defacto c...

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Energy Conservation Amendment Bill : India Steps To Mitigate Climate Change

Dr. Kankana DebnathAugust 17, 20220

India has taken a landmark step to mitigate climate change and has reached another milestone on Tuesday, 9th August, 2022. The Lok Sabha, lower house of Parliament passed the Energy Conservation Amendment Bill (ECAB). The bill also promotes lowering carbon prints and more use of clean energy. The Energy Conservation Amendment Bill, 2022, is being lauded as a big step for India towards achieving climate goals. The bill is a major development towards attaining India's Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC), which are India's commitments towards climate change action under the Paris Agreement. The ECAB was proposed in the Lok Sabha on 3rd August and passed on 9th August. The bill aimed at ensuring greater use of renewable energy and enforcing penalties on industrial polluters for ca...

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Have No Hope From Supreme Court: Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal

Isha PoddarAugust 10, 20220

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal was speaking at a People's Tribunal which was organised by the Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reform (CJAR), People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM) on "Civil Liberty" in New Delhi on August 6, 2022. Judicial Rollback". The tribunal focused on the Supreme Court's 2022 judgment on the Gujarat riots (2002) and the Chhattisgarh tribal genocide (2009). Sibal criticised the Supreme Court's decision to dismiss Zakia Jafri's plea, challenging the SIT's clean chit to state functionaries in the Gujarat riots and upholding the Prevention of Money Laundering provisions Act, Which gives broad powers to the Enforcement Directorate. He appeared for the petitioners in both cases. He began his address by saying ...

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UGC Finds More Raging Case From Jabalpur Including Naked Walked, Fired With Cigarettes

Isha PoddarAugust 8, 20220

Madhya Pradesh has the third big case. Whose complaint has directly reached the Anti-Ragging Committee of the UGC? Where in the complaint, the aggrieved student has told that four prominent seniors of the hostel harassed her mentally and physically. He has crossed all limits of torture. The victim has said that she is forced to drink alcohol and cigarettes. Failing to do so, the seniors strip her naked, take her to the hostel, and fire her with a cigarette. RDU Devendra Men's Hostel of Rani Durgavati University is again in the headlines for ragging. The complaint reached to the Anti-Ragging Committee of the UGC has exposed the midnight violence in the RDU hostel. The UGC has sent a letter to the university administration and the Superintendent of Police and directed them to take concret

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Supreme Court Recommends Setting Up A Strict Expert Panel On ‘Freebies’ By Political Parties

Isha PoddarAugust 3, 20220

Supreme Court has become more strict in giving 'free Bee' to political parties during elections and has advocated the formation of an expert body to deal with it. The court said it should include the Centre, opposition political parties, Election Commission, NITI Aayog, RBI and other stakeholders. Join the body of free Bee recipients and those who oppose it. The Supreme Court said this issue directly affects the country's economy. The Supreme Court has sought a proposal for such an expert body within a week. Now the next hearing of this case will be on August 11. During this, CJI NV Ramana said that this is a severe issue. One aspect of gifts is that they are necessary for the welfare of the poor and oppressed, but the economic aspect also needs attention. On the other hand, Kapil S...

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Excited About 5G? Know What Will Change With 5G, And How Much You Need To Pay For It!!

Gunjan ChaudharyAugust 1, 20220

The auction of 5G spectrum started by the central government on July 26 has finally ended. Telecom companies got leases for 20 years on different frequencies. A total of 72 GHz 5G spectrum were available for auction. During the auction of 5G spectrum, on an average, Reliance Jio Infocomm bought spectrum worth Rs 88,078 crore, Airtel 43,084 crore, Vodafone-Idea 18,784 crore while Adani Data Networks, the first entrant in telecom world, bought spectrum worth Rs 212 crore. So let us know a few details about 5G spectrum. What difference will the arrival of 5G make? Compared to 4G spectrum, the user will get more technical facilities in 5G. Internet download speed which is limited to 150 megabytes per second in 4G, it can go up to 10 GB per second in 5G. While the upload speed in 5G will a

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Is Delhi Police Commissioner Becoming A Laboratory For BJP? IPS Of Different Cadre Appointed By BJP!!

Gunjan ChaudharyAugust 1, 20220

1988 batch IPS officer Sanjay Arora of Tamil Nadu cadre, who was the DG of ITBP, has taken over as the Delhi Police Commissioner on Monday. He is the third IPS in entire history of Delhi Police system to have commanded the Delhi Police despite being a police officer from outside the 'AGMUT' (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territories) cadre. The most special thing is that these three IPS have become Delhi Police Commissioners only during the NDA rule. First one was Ajay Raj Sharma who was given command in 1999, then Rakesh Asthana in 2021 and now Sanjay Arora has been made Delhi Police Commissioner. Former IPS officers said in a sarcastic style, now the post of Delhi Police Commissioner has become a 'laboratory'. The 'AGMUT' cadre is being underestimated. LK Advani did the ...

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Pope Francis Regrets For Catholic Church’s Assult On Canadian Indigenous Children

Isha PoddarJuly 25, 20220

Pope Francis started a historic visit to Canada on July 24 to apologize to Indigenous people for abuses by missionaries at residential schools, an essential step in the Catholic Church’s attempt to reconcile with Native communities and help them out in recovering from trauma. Francis kissed the hand of a residential school remnant as he was greeted at the Edmonton, Alberta, airport being Indigenous representatives, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mary Simon, an Inuk who is Canada’s first Indigenous governor-general. This visit has stirred many emotions in Canada as survivors and their families are struggling with the trauma of their loss and receive a long-sought papal apology. Francis had no official events scheduled for July 24, giving him time to rest before his meeting ...

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Guantánamo Bay Prison: A Story Of Barring Justice When Convenient

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 16, 20220

Since 9/11, the US has been a fervent warrior against terrorism, especially against fundamentalist groups like Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. George W. Bush heralded the global war on terror. Hence in October 2001, Afghanistan was invaded to hunt down the terrorist groups hiding in the region. The US also enlisted local help with bounties and rewards for capturing or reporting terrorist targets or individuals connected with the terrorist groups. Therefore this led to Afghans and Pakistanis turning over many individuals and reporting them as terrorists with little to no evidence. Temporarily, the US had set up many sites in Romania, Poland, Lithuania, and Thailand called Bald sites for imprisoning them. Eventually, the US decided to create a jail for thee prosecuted individuals, and in Januar...

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