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A social media post by China’s top law enforcement body juxtaposing the country’s successful launch of a module into space with grim cremation pyres in India was deleted after it sparked online criticism in China.
Photos of the Tianhe module launch and its fuel burn-off were compared with what appeared to be a mass outdoor cremation in India, and captioned “China lighting a fire versus India lighting a fire.” The post on Saturday by the Communist Party’s Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission on its official Sina Weibo account was accompanied by a hashtag noting that new Covid-19 cases in India had surpassed 400,000 a day.
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India offers Buddha statue to Yangsan s Tongdo Temple as gift
Posted : 2021-05-03 09:11
Updated : 2021-05-03 09:11
A Buddha statue, provided to the Tongdo Temple by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, is seen during a handing-over ceremony at the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre of the Embassy of India in Seoul, Friday. Courtesy of the Indian Embassy to Korea
By Kwon Mee-yoo
The Indian Council for Cultural Relations has provided a bronze Buddha statue to the Tongdo Temple in Yangsan, South Gyeongsang Province, as a gift to strengthen cultural ties between India and Korea.
A handing-over ceremony of the statue was held at the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre at the Embassy of India in Seoul, Friday.
Setback For Modi After Loss In Key India State Poll By Sailendra Sil
on May 03 2021 5:14 AM
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi s Hindu-nationalist party suffered a setback Sunday when it lost a fiercely contested state poll.
Over the past month India held its biggest democratic exercise in two years, with 175 million people eligible to vote in five regional elections.
But the marathon polls involved huge rallies where many attendees were maskless, and a record-breaking coronavirus spike coincided with the final phases of voting.
Experts blame complacency about the pandemic, as well as religious festivals attended by millions of devotees and political rallies, for the virus crisis.
The Covid pandemic has become a breeding ground for ideas about fake liberty
By Philip Machanick on 3 May 2021
It can be hard to make sense of what is going on in the world today. Authoritarian populists have stood convention on its head. Populist far-right leaders like former US president Donald Trump, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian Prime Minister Jair Bolsonaro, who embrace misogyny, xenophobia and authoritarianism, hide behind a camouflage of libertarianism and individual liberty. Yet what they stand for is a world order in which the weak are permanently victimised and the out-group is permanently exiled.
Out of this cesspit, old ideas of liberty rise like bubbles in festering sewerage and lose all their original fragrance.