The new parliament building can seat 888 members in the Lok Sabha chamber and 300 in the Rajya Sabha chamber.
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PM Modi to Inaugurate New Parliament Building on May 28
The new parliament building can seat 888 members in the Lok Sabha chamber and 300 in the Rajya Sabha chamber.
The top court has asked the Union government to consider shifting them to Rajasthan.
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‘Cheetahs Brought to India Need to Be Protected,’ Says SC on Deaths of 3 Cheetahs in Nearly 2 Months
The top court has asked the Union government to consider shifting them to Rajasthan.
The Central Bureau of Investigation filed an FIR against Sameer Wankhede based on the NCB's report. He is protected from arrest until May 22. https://t.co/HhXhTYvmvY
The Wire
Vigilance Report Points to Spending Discrepancies of Officer Who Arrested Aryan Khan
The Central Bureau of Investigation filed an FIR against Sameer Wankhede based on the NCB's report. He is protected from arrest until May 22.
The unequal power dynamics of technologies intruding on children’s bodies, exacerbate the dangers of data colonialism and the lack of data privacy. There is an urgent need to stop this mining, writes Anita Rampal. https://t.co/8cpFssImmZ
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Mining Children: Why Dataveillance in the Name of Education or Health Must Stop
The unequal power dynamics of various technologies and agencies intruding on children’s bodies exacerbate the dangers of data colonialism and the lack of data privacy.
Dr Jill Carr-Harris speaks to The Wire about discovering rural India, supporting local economies, and the need for economic decentralisation. | A.K. Shiburaj
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What is a ‘Nonviolent Economy’ and How Can We Get There? An Activist Explains
Dr Jill Carr-Harris speaks to The Wire about discovering rural India, supporting local economies, and the need for economic decentralisation.
Pilot has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the current Rajasthan government led by Ashok Gehlot. The Wire fact-checks Pilot's three demands. https://t.co/X4GGNDlteI
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Watch: Will Sachin Pilot Disrupt Congress's Game in Rajasthan?
Pilot has issued a 15-day ultimatum to the current Rajasthan government led by Ashok Gehlot. The Wire fact-checks Pilot's three demands.
#Replug | The foundation stone laying ceremony (aka the bhoomi pujan) of the new parliament building on December 10, 2020, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, marks a transitional moment in Indian politics, writes @NilanjanUdwin.
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By Presiding Over Parliament's Foundation, PM Blurs Distinction Between Legislature and Executive
The decision to get the Modi to perform rituals, bestowed on him the status of 'karta' of the bicameral legislature, although the office of the PM has no function in the management of the parliament.
Evidence of our syncretic culture comes from various sources, including contemporary history. | @twitatreyee
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The History of India Is Complex and Complicated. It Cannot Be Neatly Sanitised.
Evidence of our syncretic culture comes from various sources, including contemporary history.
Data over the past 45 years shows that there has been a slight increase in women's participation in Karnataka politics, but the rate of increase is too slow. | Poulomi Ghosh https://t.co/gQ0EepVL9Y
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Women Fought Well in Karnataka Elections, Yet Inclusion in Politics Remains a Distant Dream
Data over the past 45 years shows that there has been a slight increase in women's participation in Karnataka politics and some wins, but the rate of increase is too slow.
The Central Asian summit is being held in China's Xian city at the same time as the rival G7 summit in Japan. The meeting in China comes as Beijing seeks to build its influence in the region. https://t.co/ndNpm1gRNh
The Wire
Central Asian Summit Intensifies China's Push for Global Leadership
Amidst China's push for a global leadership, Chinese leader Xi Jinping hosted the Central Asian Summit in Xian on 18 May, 2023. Coeval with the rival G7 summit in Japan, the summit comes as Beijing seeks to build its influence in the region.
However, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the matter on July 14 if the high court does not hear it on July 3.
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Supreme Court Refuses to Lift Patna HC's Stay on Bihar Caste Census
However, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the matter on July 14 if the high court does not hear it on July 3.
Dabholkar, an anti-superstition crusader, was shot dead by two bike-borne assailants on August 20, 2013.
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Narendra Dabholkar's Daughter Approaches SC Against HC's Refusal to Keep Monitoring CBI Probe
Dabholkar, an anti-superstition crusader, was shot dead by two bike-borne assailants on August 20, 2013.
Anybody who has been involved with politics at any level in India knows that a simplistic analysis of voter behaviour – while it may make for attractive headlines – is inherently inaccurate. | @SarimNaved
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‘Modi Magic’ Is Nothing But BJP PR Amplified by Media
Anybody who has been involved with politics at any level in India knows that a simplistic analysis of voter behaviour – while it may make for attractive headlines – is inherently inaccurate.
The gap between the southern states and the rest of India has been growing over the years (since before 2014) and is now taking the shape of an unbridgeable chasm, writes Avay Shukla. https://t.co/LOgwBkO8xE
The Wire
BJP’s Victory in 2024 Elections May Lead to a Reverse Continental Drift We Could Do Without
In Karnataka, the BJP tried everything – hijab, halal, removal of quota for Muslims – but failed. In the process, it has widened the north-south divide and made the latter even more suspicious of not only the BJP but all political parties to the north of…
In an interview with Karan Thapar, Chinmaya Gharekhan, India’s former Permanent Representative to the UN, who had spent 26 months in Indira Gandhi’s PMO, discussed many of the anecdotes about Indira Gandhi published in his new book. https://t.co/WiS4ieWcsz
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Watch | 'Indira Loved Brits, Treated Ambassadors With Contempt, Filed Her Nails At Meetings'
In an interview with Karan Thapar, Chinmaya Gharekhan, India’s former Permanent Representative to the UN, who had spent 26 months in Indira Gandhi’s PMO, discussed many of the anecdotes about Indira Gandhi published in his new book.
#Watch | In an interview with Karan Thapar, Chinmaya Gharekhan, India’s former Permanent Representative to the UN, who had spent 26 months in Indira Gandhi’s PMO, discussed many of the anecdotes about Indira Gandhi published in his new book.
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Indira Loved Brits, Wanted The Nobel, Treated Ambassadors With Contempt, Filed Her Nails At Meetings
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In an astonishingly revealing interview, where he regales the audience with a collection of delightful but also searingly honest anecdotes about former…
Are longstanding yet buried tensions within the BJP state unit in Telangana coming to the surface after the national party’s humbling defeat in the Karnataka assembly elections? Developments in the last three days seem to indicate as much. | Pavan Korada https://t.co/ocJYMX24iF
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Are Cracks Appearing in BJP's Telangana Unit After the Karnataka Debacle?
Are longstanding yet buried tensions within the BJP state unit in Telangana coming to the surface after the national party’s humbling defeat in the Karnataka assembly elections? Developments in the last three days seem to indicate as much.
Hundreds of students from Kashmir appearing in the CUET are distressed over the fact that they have been allotted examination centres hundreds of kilometres from their hometowns, and in several cases, outside J&K altogether. | @UroojAndrabi https://t.co/eIDNv218lx
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'Exam Centres Outside Valley or J&K,' Hundreds Likely to Skip CUET Exams in Kashmir
School-leaving students who belong to poor families are left staring at significant expenses to travel to exam centres, many of which are over 600 kilometres from their hometowns.
Your ears probe the ebb and flow of the background score, your eyes ferret out sources of discord. And it’s yours. A personal act. What you watch is what you are.
Utkarsh Mani Tripathi writes for @livewire.
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What I Watch is My Personal Gospel
Your ears probe the ebb and flow of the background score, your eyes ferret out sources of discord. And it’s yours. A personal act. What you watch is what you are.
RT @thewire_in: #Watch | In an interview with Karan Thapar, Chinmaya Gharekhan, India’s former Permanent Representative to the UN, who had spent 26 months in Indira Gandhi’s PMO, discussed many of the anecdotes about Indira Gandhi published in his new book.
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Indira Loved Brits, Wanted The Nobel, Treated Ambassadors With Contempt, Filed Her Nails At Meetings
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In an astonishingly revealing interview, where he regales the audience with a collection of delightful but also searingly honest anecdotes about former…
In an astonishingly revealing interview, where he regales the audience with a collection of delightful but also searingly honest anecdotes about former…