The Summit for Democracy needs to include the domestic opposition Tarunabh Khaitan The US Capitol in Washington D.C. in 2006. Image: Andrew Bossi, Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA For the first time since 2001, there are more autocracies in the world than democracies. In 2019, 54% of the world’s population lived in a full-blown autocracy; 35% lived in democracies that were moving in the autocratic direction. This latter category included countries like Brazil, India, Poland, Ukraine, the Philippines, Turkey, and the United States. In just another year, by 2020, 68% of the world was living under authoritarianism, with V-Dem downgrading India the world’s second most populous country to an ‘electoral
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The writer is a former ambassador to the US, UK & UN. NOW that a backchannel between Pakistan and India has been confirmed by a senior official it would be appropriate to evaluate its nature and implications. Efforts to de-escalate tensions between the two nuclear neighbours are always welcome. But given the history of false starts and the one step forward, two steps backwards engagement in this long-troubled relationship it is important to take into account lessons of the past and on-ground realities, especially as the dire situation created by India in occupied Kashmir remains unchanged. There is nothing unusual about a backchannel. It is frequently used when formal dialogue between countries is suspended. This was often the case in the past when Pakistan and India demurred from engaging in open talks. Backchannels are useful to confidentially probe, explore and assess how much give there is in the other’s position. This is harder in a formal forum where negotiating parties stick to maximalist positions at least at the start. During the Musharraf period backchannel negotiations on the Kashmir dispute took place over three years to find an interim settlement. This marked the most serious effort in recent decades to find a political solution of Kashmir. The talks were conducted by civil servants who enjoyed the confidence of president Pervez Musharraf and prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Ramachandra Guha: Crisis-hit India needs a leader who listens, not one focused on building his brand Ramachandra Guha: Crisis-hit India needs a leader who listens, not one focused on building his brand In the year that the nation has been at war with the virus, the personality cult of the prime minister has steadily expanded. 2 hours ago A woman walks past a painting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi a day before the inauguration of the Covid-19 vaccination drive on a street in Mumbai on January 15, 2021. | Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters In April 2020 – exactly a year ago – I published an essay in the
COVID-19: Deputy Commissioners of six Haryana districts authorised to impose prohibitory orders ANI | Updated: Apr 25, 2021 09:20 IST Chandigarh(Haryana) [India], April 25 (ANI): The deputy commissioners of Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonipat, Hisar, Karnal and Panchkula have been authorised to impose prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC (Criminal Procedure Code) prohibiting the gatherings of more than four people unless specifically permitted, said Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday. Khattar s statement came at a state-level meeting of the coronavirus control committee chaired by him on Saturday. He further informed that about 1.1 crore people above the age of 18 years will be administered COVID-19 vaccination across the state from May 1 and an amount of Rs 880 crores would be spent on the vaccine administration, which would be borne by the state government.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday informed that about 1.1 crore people above the age of 18 years will be administered COVID-19 vaccination across the state from May 1 and an amount of Rs 880 crores would be spent on the vaccine administration, which would be borne by his government. Registration for the vaccination would start from April 28, 2021. The Chief Minister said this while presiding over the meeting of the state-level COVID Monitoring Committee held in Chandigarh today. The Chief Minister said that the administration of vaccination in the government hospitals would be done free of cost, while in private hospitals people would have to pay some amount for getting the vaccination.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar. (Photo/ANI) Rs 880 cr to be spent on COVID-19 vaccination of people above 18 years in Haryana: Khattar ANI | Updated: Apr 24, 2021 23:04 IST New Delhi [India], April 24 (ANI): Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday informed that about 1.1 crore people above the age of 18 years will be administered COVID-19 vaccination across the state from May 1 and an amount of Rs 880 crores would be spent on the vaccine administration, which would be borne by his government. Registration for the vaccination would start from April 28, 2021. The Chief Minister said this while presiding over the meeting of the state-level COVID Monitoring Committee held in Chandigarh today.
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NEW DELHI: After avoiding campaigning in West Bengal so far, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday attacked both BJP and Mamata Banerjee-led TMC in his first rally in the state. BJP wants to destroy and divide Bengal, they are doing same thing in Assam and Tamil Nadu, said Rahul Gandhi at a rally in Goalpokhor. The former Congress president also mocked BJP s slogan of building Sonar Bangla and said the party sells the same dream in every state . In every state, they say similar things like Sonar Bangla. But, they only offer dividing people on the basis of religion, caste and language, the Congress leader said.
On April 6, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) marked its forty-first Sthapana Divas (Foundation Day) with quiet online celebrations, both at the national and district levels. This was to be expected, given that the whole country is in the middle of a second Covid-19 wave, even more virulent than the earlier one. With the latest daily caseload of over 150,000, the figures are nothing short of alarming. The good news, however, is that over 100 million Indians have already been vaccinated and the fatality rates in this second surge are considerably lower, even if the new strains seem to be highly infectious and transmissible.