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Modi government resorted to large scale shutdowns of internet connections to quell protests by people against its policies adopted between 2019 and 2021 is now well known, but what is little known is that the internet suspension was effected for 14,280 hours during this period which cost India about $4.7 billion, apart from human rights violations that the orders constituted due to which people suffered invaluable loss. The frequent internet suspensions have led to India even being referred to as the shutdown capital of the world. Only Myanmar and Nigeria did more economic damage with self-inflicted wounds which were to the tune of $2.8 billion and $1.5 billion respectively in 2021 while India lost $582.8 million.

An important case to decide how far minority rights can be cited to claim to take cover from professional standards in the conduct of aided educational institutions is coming up for the consideration of the Supreme Court shortly.

A columnist has aptly summed up the poll scene in Punjab and how the ruling congress party committed gaffe after gaffe. “The Congress’s campaign in Punjab is a lesson how not to win elections”, he wrote. Chief Minister Charanjit Channi, appears to be a general without foot soldiers, his peers putting spokes rather than lending shoulders to the party’s electioneering.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has promised Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi that he will “personally look into” former AAP leader Kumar Vishwas’s allegations that Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal sups with terrorists and separatists and wanted to become “first Prime Minister of Khalistan.”

Narendra Modi ever since he came to occupy the office of prime minister has been insinuating worst nature of jibe against Jawahar Lal Nehru. This is the greater part of the RSS design to portray Nehru as an enemy of Hindus. RSS for pretty long time has been presenting secularism as a decadent concept and idea.

To understand the true meaning of the ‘hijab issue’ playing out in Karnataka and other states, one only needs to pay close attention to the way in which it is being invoked in poll-bound states by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders aiming to create and consolidate a Hindu vote-bank.

New Delhi: A 17 member Indian Boxing contingent (10 women, 7 men) left for Sofia, Bulgaria in the early hours of Friday to participate at the 73rd Strandja Memorial tournament, Europe's oldest International boxing tournament.

Visakhapatnam: Hyderabad based amateur Sneha Singh fired first ever albatross on the Hero WPGT as she shot 7-under 29 on the back nine and that enabled her to win the 2nd leg of tournament by three shots at the East Point Golf Club here on Friday.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken went on national television Thursday morning to declare, again, that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could start at any moment. His dire prediction was yet another in the endless string of declarations by the U.S. that war could start at any moment. It followed by only a day the passing of February 16, the date the U.S. said last week would be the day of a likely Russian invasion.

The inception of the current crisis on Ukraine lies in the continuing eastward expansion of NATO. Contrary to what was promised to Russia by the United States in the post-Soviet period that NATO would not expand eastward, all the East European countries and the Baltic states, which were part of the Warsaw Treaty were brought into the NATO. Russia now fears that Ukraine and Georgia, that were part of the Soviet Union, are next in line. Having NATO on its borders is seen as a direct security threat to Russia.