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World
DONALD TRUMP’S SECOND PRESIDENCY IS GLOBALLY DISRUPTIVE BUT DAMAGE MAY BE CONTAINED
FOR INDIA, IMPACT BAD ON ECONOMY, BUT POSITIVE FOR NARENDRA MODI’S POLITICS AT THE MOMENT
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06-11-2024 12:54 GMT-0000
Finally, the U.S. election results are out. The Republican candidate Donald Trump has swept the polls by winning convincingly in the presidential contest as also leading the Republican Party to majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. There is no grey area. It is apparent that the majority of the American voters have shown confidence in this political maverick who has promised to Make America Great Again. For the Democratic Party, the 2024 elections results have brought some uneasy questions to the fore. The party leadership has to go into it after full results come out.
India
CJI CHANDRACHUD’S LAST DAYS IN OFFICE OVERSHADOWED BY UNSEEMLY CONTROVERSIES
CRITICISM OF KRISHNA IYER’S WORK AND PHILOSOPHY TURNS OUT TO BE A SOUR POINT
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06-11-2024 12:51 GMT-0000
It is as though the most controversial, at times even messy, part of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud has been reserved for the last few days of his tenure. The revelation about his prayer to the deity to help the Supreme Court come up with a solution in the Ram Janmabhoomi dispute has had its political undertones as the deity was in a way a party to the dispute. But luckily, the claim did not lead to any clumsy results, although it may have created some distrust in the minds of the aggrieved parties. The invitation to prime minister Narendra Modi for the CJI’s private Ganesh puja also had its share of doubts.
Miscellaneous
MELINDA GATES IS THE ICON OF WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND FIGHTER FOR THE CAUSE OF DEPRIVED
HER FOUNDATION IS DOING TREMENDOUS WORK FOR MAKING THE WORLD A LITTLE BETTER
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02-11-2024 10:30 GMT-0000
When two individuals – a woman and a man – take the vow, they understandably do so in the hope of sharing common interests apart from remaining faithful to each other till death do them part. The global experience is that contrary to their original pledge to remain partners in all pursuits, as time passes by more and more couples in developed and developing countries are drifting apart leading to divorce. Mercifully, far more people get married every year than divorced. Who is not aware of the saying, which continues to gain in currency that half of all marriages in the US end in annulment. A bit of exaggeration there since only 43 per cent of first marriages will fail leading to dissolution. But when it comes to second and third marriages, dissolution rates are horrifyingly large at 60 per cent and 73 per cent, respectively.