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With record 70 elections due, 2024 will shape a new world order

Kavya Dubey | December 2, 2023 11:03 AM

New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) As 2023 draws to a close, the world is gearing up to the host of elections that are slated to be held in various countries in the coming year. As many as 70 elections across 40 countries will take place in 2024, and their global implications are looked out for to anticipate the course of the coming decade.

'Haaretz' exposes those truths that Israeli society brushes under the carpet

Kavya Dubey | November 26, 2023 12:12 PM

New Delhi, Nov 26 (IANS) Zionist parties may be dominating the political landscape of Israel, but Haaretz, a newspaper founded in 1919 and known for its liberal stance on Israel’s domestic and foreign affairs, has been consistently exposing the hypocrisy of the global Left with regard to the country at the eye of the international storm.

50 more sites across India on UNESCO's Tentative List, await upgrade

Kavya Dubey | September 24, 2023 11:05 AM

New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) India is home to a variety of heritage sites, only few of which come under UNESCO World Heritage Sites. With Rabindranath Tagore’s Santiniketan in West Bengal and Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas in Karnataka added to the list, India’s count now stands at 42. The national capital has three such cultural properties.

A vocal minority today, Indians first arrived in a hostile Canada in 1902

Kavya Dubey | September 23, 2023 2:09 PM

New Delhi, Sep 23 (IANS) Shortly after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s much talked-about India visit for the G20 summit, the tone and tenor of the relations between the two nations changed in the aftermath of the assassination of prominent Khalistan supporter Hardeep Singh Nijjar, causing a fissure between communities -- in both Canada and India.

A decade on, China's imperial financial gambit goes awry (IANS Explainer)

Kavya Dubey | September 16, 2023 7:42 PM

New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) Giving China a renewed status in contemporary times, its president Xi Jinping’s brainchild One Belt One Road (OBOR) is a massive development project that was announced in 2013. With the intent of enhancing connectivity and cooperation among 78 countries across Asia, Africa, and Europe, this project has had the world watching South Asia.

From Meluha to India, the many names of 'Bharat' across centuries

Kavya Dubey | September 10, 2023 2:40 PM

New Delhi, Sep 10 (IANS) When President Droupadi Murmu sent out invites for the dinner hosted by her at the G20 Summit, she described herself as the 'President of Bharat' and set off a heated discussion that may have abated temporarily, but is headed for a vociferous revival.

All eyes on Rohini report which says only 40 OBCs corner 50% benefits

Kavya Dubey | September 10, 2023 9:12 AM

New Delhi, Sep 10 (IANS) India has a democracy where caste is intrinsic and indispensable in its electoral theatre. And in order to address the anomalies engendering from caste distinctions, the Narendra Modi government constituted a four-member commission headed by retired Delhi High Court Chief Justice G. Rohini in October 2017, to look into the issue of sub-categorisation within OBCs.