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Separate outbreaks of violence this week, including the alleged shooting of three Muslim men by a police officer on a train, have exposed the deep communal fissures in India weeks before it welcomes Group of 20 (G20) leaders to the capital.
Signup to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the past 24 hours. Here’s today’s news. GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS - NIGER The U.S. embassy in Niger will be partially evacuated following last week’s coup. Spokesperson Matthew Miller said that, despite the partial evacuation, the embassy would remain
Raqib Hameed Naik stood in his tidy American kitchen, feeling torn about his secret life. On the one hand, he was safe from the Indian government, and far from the death threats and the late-night knocks on his parents' door.
NEW DELHI - It was a day India reported nearly 370,000 fresh coronavirus infections. Uttar Pradesh, its most populous state, was among the top four in a list of states with highest caseloads that day. Yet, on May 2, thousands gathered and jostled at polling centres across Uttar Pradesh, where votes for recently held village council elections were being counted. Visuals of so many people gathering with no adherence to physical distancing norms were an ominous reminder of how elections have fanned the spread of the second wave of Covid-19 in India. Assembly elections were held in the states of ...
How Diversifying Public Procurement of Grains Can Resolve the Impasse Over MSP By shifting from rice and wheat crops, which get overemphasis both in terms of cultivation and procurement, to coarse grains such as bajra, maize can go a long way in correcting issues concerned with MSP. Credit: Reuters/Amit Dave Government06/Mar/2021 Talks between the Indian government and representatives of farmersâ unions leading the protest movement against the three hastily passed farm laws seems to have reached a stalemate. At the centre of the disagreement lies the existing system of government procur...