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“Manipur has turned into ghettos; we had seen this last in Gujarat in 2002” said Dr Shakeel Ur Rahman. A massive campaign, a long-term exercise to integrate all ethnicities should be taken up collectively by civil societies and the government, he added, commenting on the relief camps setup for the Kuki and Meitei communities.
“China doesn’t want India to be the voice of the Global South, or to be that country within the Himalayan region to be hosting this very successful G20 summit,” said Director of South Asia Initiatives at the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) in New York, Farwa Aamer.
“In the interest of public safety and convenience of general public, elaborate regulations on vehicular movements will be in place in the National Capital Region (NCR), especially in New Delhi District and its surrounding areas,” the Delhi Traffic Police writes in its bulletin.
Why bulldozer drives in Muslim-dominated areas in the aftermath of communal clashes are being ‘normalised’
ISRO maintains stride with a third lunar space project, following two 'partial successes'. Chandrayaan-3 equips itself with the learnings of previous lunar missions, as ISRO chief guarantees a successful soft landing on the Moon's South Pole.
“If everything fails, all the sensors fail, nothing works, still Vikram will make a landing. That’s how it has been designed- provided that the propulsion system works well. We have also made sure that if 2 of the engines (in Vikram) don’t work this time also, it will still be able to land,” says ISRO chairman S Somnath.
Niti Aayog has found a significant decline in India’s ‘multidimensional poverty line’ from 24.85 per cent in 2015-16 to 14.96 per cent in 2019-21. It says 135 million people have advanced above poverty between 2015-16 and 2019-21. The report has been cited as a major milestone and a pivotal step in achieving Sustainable Developmental Goal (SDG) target of reducing at least by half the number of people living in poverty.
The day of the Yatra was preceded by a meeting between Nuh Police and district officials, VHP, Bajrang Dal and Jamiat Ulema-I-Hind representatives, on July 27, where the ‘no weapon’ clause was greatly emphasised upon, as per deputy commissioner Prashant Panwar.
The town in Haryana and the adjoining areas may be limping back to normalcy, but scars from the violence stay
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