China’s envoy to Canada told Canadian parliamentarians over the weekend to stay out of China’s internal affairs. Canada’s House of Commons has voted to declare that China is committing genocide against more than 1 million Uighurs in the western Xinjiang region but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Cabinet abstained from the vote. The non-binding motion passed 266-0 on Monday as virtually all but Mr. Trudeau and his Cabinet voted for the measure that also called on the International Olympic Committee to move the 2022 Winter Olympics from Beijing. A senior government official told The Associated Press that Canada’s foreign…
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Despite the rollout of vaccines since mid-December, a closely watched model from the University of Washington projects more than 589,000 dead by June 1 The COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. has topped 500,000, all but matching the number of Americans killed in World War II, Korea and Vietnam combined.The lives lost, as recorded by Johns Hopkins University on Monday, are about equal to the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and greater than that of Miami; Raleigh, North Carolina; or Omaha, Nebraska.And despite the rollout of vaccines since mid-December, a closely watched model from the University of Washington projects more…
The Cyberabad police have asked the Regional Passport Officer to cancel 72 Indian passports obtained fraudulently by Bangladeshi nationals. The police have even asked for Look Out Circulars from the Foreigners Regional Registration Officer. These circulars can help prevent many of these illegal immigrants from leaving India, and in securing deportation for those already abroad.In a letter to the Regional Passport Officer, a copy of which is in possession of The Hindu, the Cyberabad police stated that Parimal Bain facilitated 72 Bangladeshi immigrants in securing Indian passports, of which 32 were obtained with a single house address in Bodhan. Till…
The Kerala government has invalidated the Kerala Shipping and Inland Navigation Corporation’s (KSINC) controversial agreement with a U.S.-based firm, EMCC International, to build and operate a deep-sea trawling fleet to harvest the marine wealth off the coast of Kerala.In one stroke, the government has also attempted to stymie the Opposition’s political gambit to stir up resentment against the ruling front for entertaining an investment proposal that seemed at odds with the vast coastal community’s inalienable right to harvest their traditional fishing grounds exclusively.KSINC managing director N. Prasanth and Shiju Varghese recently inked the ₹2,950 crore pact to build 400 deep…
‘We took the political agreement to apply sanctions targeting the military responsible for the coup and their economic interests’ European Union ministers agreed on Monday to sanction the Myanmar military over its seizure of power and to withhold some development aid, the bloc’s top envoy said.”We took the political agreement to apply sanctions targeting the military responsible for the coup and their economic interests,” foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said. “All direct financial support from our development system to the government reform programmes is withheld,” he added. You have reached your limit for free articles this month. Subscription Benefits Include…
Other than the disputes from Pennsylvania, the justices’ decision not to hear the cases was unsurprising. The Supreme Court on Monday formally rejected a handful of cases related to the 2020 election, including disputes from Pennsylvania that had divided the justices just before the election. The cases the justices rejected involved election challenges filed by former President Donald Trump and his allies in five states President Joe Biden won: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Other than the disputes from Pennsylvania, the justices’ decision not to hear the cases was unsurprising. The court had previously taken no action in those…
The growth momentum needs to be strengthened for a sustained revival of the economy and a quick return to the pre-COVID trajectory, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said, pitching for a status quo on rates, at the last meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).All the six members of the MPC had voted for keeping the policy repo rate unchanged at 4% at the three-day meeting which began on February 3, citing similar reasons. Mr. Das, according to the minutes of the meeting released by the central bank on Monday, had said: “Growth, although uneven, is recovering and gathering momentum, and…
A day after Male and New Delhi signed an agreement to jointly develop the Maldives National Defence Force Coast Guard Harbour, Maldives’s Parliament, ‘the People’s Majlis’, took up an emergency motion, demanding greater transparency on the bilateral pact. Following the signing of the agreement on Sunday, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, who was in Male this weekend, tweeted: “Glad to sign with Defence Minister @MariyaDidi the UTF Harbour Project agreement. Will strengthen Maldivian Coast Guard capability and facilitate regional HADR efforts. Partners in development, partners in security.” Significantly, the pact comes weeks after New Delhi lost the opportunity to develop…
The Law Ministry on Monday notified the appointment of new judges to the High Courts of Kerala and Delhi and the elevation of additional judges for the Karnataka High Court as permanent judges.“The President of India appointed Shri Jasmeet Singh and Shri Amit Bansal as the Judges of the Delhi High Court,” a Law Ministry statement said.In Kerala, Murali Purushothaman, Ziyad Rahman Alevakkatt Abdul Rahiman, Karunakaran Babu and Kauser Edappagath have been elevated a judges.Mr. Purushothaman and Mr. Rahiman were elevated from the Bar and Mr. Karunakaran Babu and Dr. Edappagath have been appointed from the judicial services.The Supreme Court…
Ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, West Bengal and Assam, a group of NRIs met the Election Commission requesting for early resolution of the long-standing NRI voting rights issue. After Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora’s meeting with Shamsheer Vayalil, an NRI entrepreneur and the petitioner in the PIL filed before the Supreme Court demanding the rights, the EC on Monday said the “matter is under active and empathic consideration”. It said the panel is in touch with the Ministries of Law & Justice and the External Affairs. The meeting comes amid reports that the government…