India’s trade with China crosses $125 billion, imports nea...
January 18 ,2022
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By: Ananth Krishnan
Data show continued demand for a range of Chinese goods, particularly machinery
India’s trade with China in 2021 crossed $125 bi...
Siachen recollections
January 18 ,2022
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By: Riaz Mohammad Khan
According to a Hindustan Times story of Jan 13, Indian chief of army staff Gen M.M. Naravane, addressing a press conference i...
Why Narendra Modi and Amit Shah refuse to condemn heighten...
January 18 ,2022
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By: P. Raman
Home minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Photo: PTI
Why has there been a sudden surge in organised hate crimes ag...
Tejas not part of 75 aircraft in Republic Day flypast this...
January 18 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
New Delhi: The Republic Day parade on the Rajpath this year will see the “grandest and largest” flypast ever with a to...
Hindu bigots are openly urging Indians to murder Muslims
January 18 ,2022
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By: SAM Report
“All hindus must pick up weapons and conduct a cleanliness drive,” bellowed a Hindu priest at a three-day “relig...
‘Make in India’s’ Muslim marginalisation
January 18 ,2022
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By: Christian Kurzydlowski
Toronto: By looking to turn itself into a global manufacturing hub, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...
Kashmir Press Club ceases to exist, building handed over t...
January 18 ,2022
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By: Peerzada Ashiq
The main gate of Kashmir Press Club on Polo View road in Srinagar remains locked on third consecutive day on January 17, 2022. ...
Income of 84% Indian households fell in 2021 while 40 new...
January 18 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Representative image. | Indranil Mukherjee/AFP
The income of 84% Indian households declined in 2021 while the number...
Sri Lanka is China's ‘pearl’ in the Indian Ocean region
January 18 ,2022
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By: Sutirtho Patranobis
China’s bold typeface on the tropical and troubled island is pretty much visible from every direction. (AFP File Photo)...
Mixed signals from Ladakh
January 18 ,2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Is the glass half empty? Or, is the glass half full? How would you choose to describe the recent meeting of the Indian and Chinese army...
Lament of Separation: Songs of Habba Khatun, last queen...
January 18 ,2022
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By: Naseer Ganai
Lament Of Separation: Songs Of Habba Khatun, Last Queen Of Kashmir, Still Echo In Valley
All ideas are immortalised in myths, none...
The Tamils’ dalliance with Buddhism and how it ended
January 17 ,2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Colombo: Both the Sinhalese and the Tamils were into Buddhism in ancient times. But while the religion survived and went from strength...
Expert warns of impending ‘genocide’ of Muslims in India
January 17 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Attacks on Muslims by Hindu mobs have risen in India, with little apparent official condemnation [File: Ferdi Awed/Opn Images/Barcrof...
Journalists decry ‘forcible takeover’ of Kashmir Press Clu...
January 17 ,2022
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By: Rifat Fareed
Kashmiri journalists hold placards during a protest against a new media policy that was announced last year in Srinagar [File: Dar Ya...
Human Rights Watch slams BJP governments for gross violati...
January 17 ,2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Arrest of Disha Ravi
Colombo: The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has slammed the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) government in India for gr...
‘Menike Mage Hithe’ is BJP’s theme song in Uttar Pradesh e...
January 17 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
New Delhi: Sri Lankan singer Yohani de Silva’s “Menike Maga Hithe” which had taken the Indian music scene by storm, i...
India’s government is ignoring, and sometimes even encoura...
January 17 ,2022
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By: SAM Report
Pulses raced as 12th-graders answered maths problems at St Joseph’s School in Ganj Basoda, a provincial town in the state of...
The forgotten legacy of Fatima Sheikh, India’s first Musli...
January 17 ,2022
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By: Saad Hasan
Regarded as one of the earliest social reformers, very little is known about the woman who challenged patriarchy and conservative n...
Today’s hate crimes India are bitter harvests of fields cu...
January 15 ,2022
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By: Satish Deshpande
In most societies and in most times, the rich and the privileged are treated more leniently than the poor and the powerless. But long...
India’s tek fog shrouds an escalating political war
For much of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nearly eight years in power, the relationship between social media platforms, journalis...
Mukesh Ambani’s stake in New York’s Mandarin Oriental make...
January 15 ,2022
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By: Neeta Lal
Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani. Photo: Instagram
India’s Reliance Industries, owned by Asia’s second richest man Mukesh A...
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