India’s seventh consecutive victory guaranteed the team a spot in the semifinals of the World Cup, but the contest was the sort of farcical mismatches that leave the partisans elated and the purists disappointed. The pitch was, in the words of Shreyas Iyer, playing beautifully, and India racked up a staggering 357/8 on it. But the Sri Lankans, seemingly batting on quite another surface, were fearful and tentative, and their worst nightmares seemed to have come alive in the pace trio of Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, and Jasprit Bumrah — the three picked up nine wickets for 42 runs. The…
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* Moitra pleads innocence Opposition members of the Lok Sabha ethics committee walked out of a panel meeting on Thursday, accusing its chairperson of asking personal and unethical questions to Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra. Moitra had appeared for her deposition before the committee headed by BJP MP Vinod Kumar Sonkar over the cash-for-query allegations. “We found the ethics committee chairperson’s questions to Moitra undignified and unethical,” Congress MP and panel member N. Uttam Kumar Reddy told reporters. The opposition members also questioned the manner in which the meeting was conducted. Sonkar, meanwhile, accused Moitra of using unparliamentary language against the chairperson…
In India, the government is heavily promoting cars and vehicles running on electric, hydrogen and ethanol. Although electric vehicles are running in the country first and now cars running on hydrogen and ethanol fuel have also come in the Indian market. In such a situation, to increase the use of cars running on hydrogen and ethanol fuel in the country as soon as possible, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has demanded a big action from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Gadkari said that I have requested Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to impose 10 percent additional GST on diesel…
In an expression of solidarity with the embattled Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, PM Narendra Modi joined her to virtually inaugurate three projects that could boost her political capital ahead of the general election in January next year. Among the three projects inaugurated are Unit-2 of the Maitree Super Thermal Power Plant, a 65-km rail line from Khulna to Mongla Port and a cross-country rail link between Tripura’s Nischintapur and Gangasagar in Bangladesh. “It is a matter of joy that we have connected once again to celebrate the success of the India-Bangladesh cooperation,” said PM Modi on the occasion. Hasina…
* International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists No one has been brought to justice in nearly 80% of the 261 cases of journalists murdered in retaliation for their work in the past decade, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) 2023 Impunity Index, a tally of countries where journalists are murdered and perpetrators elude justice. “As journalist murders continue to go unpunished in nearly 80% of cases globally, in both democracies and authoritarian countries, the message is clear: journalists are fair game,” said CPJ President Jodie Ginsberg. “Murder is the ultimate form of censorship. Swift, transparent, independent…
Due to decreasing prices, India’s demand for gold grew 10% year-over-year in the quarter ending in September to 210 tonnes, despite the inconsistent monsoon in July and August and the fear of El Nino. A significant portion of this demand came from rural India, which makes up 60% of the country’s yearly consumption of gold, estimated by the World Gold Council (WGC) to be between 700-750 tonnes in 2023, slightly less than in the previous year. The WGC Q3 Gold Demand Trends report shows that central bank buying of the metal is continuing at a historic rate, supporting the asset…
Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, has expressed concern over the recent arrest of a Rakhine reporter in western Myanmar and urged the military junta to release Ko Htet Aung along with other nearly 30 media persons, who were detained, arrested and imprisoned in the southeast Asian country after the military rulers grabbed power overthrowing a democratically elected government in NayPieTaw on 1 February 2021. Media reports from Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine (also known as Arakan) State under Myanmar (Burma/Brahmadesh), reveal that the military personnel raided the office independent media outlet Development Media…
Ahead of the Pakistan Government’s deadline on 1 November 2023 for forced deportations of unregistered Afghan refugees, Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International’s Senior Director, said: “Amnesty International strongly reiterates its call to the Government of Pakistan to immediately reverse its decision to forcibly deport unregistered Afghan refugees ahead of the deadline set for tomorrow. Pakistan must meet its international legal obligations including the principle of non-refoulement and stop the crackdown against, and harassment of, Afghan refugees across the country. “Amnesty International is also calling on the international community to financially support Pakistan for hosting Afghan refugees, and to share the responsibility…
The Centre has announced an investigation into the alert issued by Apple to Opposition MPs warning them of “state-sponsored attackers trying to remotely compromise” their iPhones. It has reportedly asked the tech giant to join the probe. After the MPs began sharing screenshots of the alert, Apple issued a statement saying the company “does not attribute the threat notifications to any specific state-sponsored attacker” and that “some threat notifications may be false alarms.” In a post on X, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the government takes its role of protecting the privacy and security of all citizens very seriously and…
Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday walked out of the state’s Rajahmundry jail, 53 days after he was arrested in the Skill Development Scam case. The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president was granted a four-week interim bail by the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday. Naidu greeted supporters with folded hands who were waiting for him outside the jail. He met his family members and got emotional as well with his grandson Nara Devans. “When I was in trouble, you all came on the roads and prayed for me. I will never forget the affection shown to me,…