`Rebuilding Trust’ is the theme of this year’s WEF Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, 15-19 January, where leading government representatives, business leaders and civil society groups will gather to discuss key issues of mutual interest. However, if it is to be successful, the specific aim of restoring lost confidence in corporate and political structures must be founded on an active respect for democratic values and a demonstrable commitment from governments to act in the interests of the people who elected them, rather than pander to powerful business interests. This is the central message that ITUC General Secretary Luc Triangle will deliver…
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Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over the imprisonment of fearless Burmese journalist- filmmaker Shin Daewe for live by the ruling military junta of Myanmar (also known as Burma and Brahmadesh) and demands her immediate release along with other over 50 jailed scribes. The award-winning documentary producer was sentenced for life imprisonment on 10 January 2024 by a military court inside Insein prison in Yangon (formerly Rangoon) on terrorism charges. Shin (50) was arrested by the Burmese soldiers from a bus terminal in Yangon on 15 October as she was shooting videos by a drone. Once worked as a video…
Amid the ongoing diplomatic tensions between India and the Maldives, local media reported that officials from the Indian High Commission in the Maldives arrived at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Male, where held discussions on the developments that rocked the relations between the two nations. According to multiple Maldivian media including the Dhauru Maldives Media reported that officials discussed the presence of Indian military personnel in the country and asked New Delhi to withdraw its troops by March 15. Abdulla Nazim, the Policy Director of the Maldives President’s Office, told reporters that President Muizzu had proposed to withdraw Indian troops from…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the festival of Pongal reflects the national spirit of ‘Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat’ and the same emotive connect could be witnessed in Kashi-Tamil and Saurashtra-Tamil Sangamam. In his address at the Pongal celebrations held at the residence of Union Minister L. Murugan in the national capital, Modi said festive fervour marked every home in Tamil Nadu and wished joy, prosperity and contentment in the lives of all the people. Drawing similarities to India’s diversity with ‘Kolam,’ the prime minister said that when every corner of the country connects emotionally with each other, the…
Senior Maharashtra leader Milind Deora, soon after announcement on his resignation from the primary membership of the Congress, ending his family’s 55-year relationship with the party, joined Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena on Sunday. Taking to the X, the former Union Minister confirmed about ending ties with the grand old party. “Today marks the conclusion of a significant chapter in my political journey. I have tendered my resignation from the primary membership of @INCIndia, ending my family’s 55-year relationship with the party. I am grateful to all leaders, colleagues & karyakartas for their unwavering support over the years,” he…
In a major rebuff to China, Taiwan’s high-stakes presidential elections concluded with a victory for Lai Ching-te, the candidate for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The strong rejection of Chinese threats by the voters is expected to escalate Taiwan’s tensions with its arch-rival Beijing, who framed the polls as a choice between war and peace. Lai received over 5 million votes and more than 40 per cent of the vote share after 90 per cent of the votes were counted till 7:45 pm (local time). Lai faced two opponents for the presidency – Hou Yu-ih of Taiwan’s largest opposition…
India has strongly protested the recent visit to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir by the UK’s envoy to the neighbouring country. “Such infringement is unacceptable,” the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement. In the statement, the ministry said, “India has taken a serious note of the highly objectionable visit of the British High Commissioner in Islamabad, along with a UK Foreign Office official, to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on 10 January 2024. Such infringement of India’s sovereignty and territorial integrity is unacceptable.” The ministry said India registered a strong protest with the UK’s High Commissioner in India regarding it. “Foreign secretary has lodged…
The INDIA bloc has chosen Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge as the chairperson of the Opposition bloc, sources in the know of the development said. Reportedly, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar declined the convenor role. Leaders of the INDIA alliance met virtually on Saturday to deliberate on seat sharing and chalk out strategies for the Lok Sabha elections. Participation of parties in the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra was also reportedly discussed. According to reports, though Nitish Kumar was offered the convenor post of the bloc, the JD(U) leader declined saying a leader from Congress should assume the role. During the previous…
The International Press Institute (IPI) global network calls on the international community to take urgent and immediate action to ensure the safety of all journalists in Gaza and the region. It urged that all states, including allies of Israel and Media Freedom Coalition members, to use all possible diplomatic means to hold Israel to its obligation to respect the rules of war, which requires states to protect journalists, as civilians, during times of armed conflict. It said that the targeted and indiscriminate killing of journalists and civilians in Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) must stop, and perpetrators must be…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Friday, inaugurated Atal Setu, the longest sea bridge in the country connecting Mumbai and its satellite township Navi Mumbai, and claimed that the project was the fulfillment of his guarantee. The prime minister, who was on a day-long visit to Maharashtra and addressed various groups in the state, appeared to be sounding the Lok Sabha poll bugle when he hailed the Rs 17,840 crore Atal Bihari Vajpayee Sewri-Nhava Sheva Atal Setu—the longest bridge as well as the longest sea bridge in the country connecting south Mumbai with Nhava-Sheva in Navi Mumbai—a “picture of developed India,”…