When it comes to #China, the world’s attention may be focused on its threatening military manoeuvres against Taiwan and the visits by various European leaders to Beijing, but for #India, it is about deciphering the message China is trying to send with its recent actions. On April… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Even then, his politician’s mask slips at times. Like when he admitted, “Look, they (China) are the bigger economy. What am I going to do? As a smaller economy, I am going to pick up a fight with the bigger economy? It is not a question of being reactionary, it’s a question of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The report says that “Indian officials probably believe they would be able to reach out and obtain substantial support from the United States in the event of another potential border crisis.” But her report warned the American decision-makers that the Modi government “clearly… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Over past 3 years #India has lost control of territory to #China
lost respect & influence in #SouthAsia.
Now runs the risk of having its hand being forced by USA.
That is the net sum of what the ongoing border crisis with China has achieved so far.
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Twitter is once again embroiled in a free-speech debate over repressing #Indian voices on the global platform.
Last week, Twitter withheld tweets by an Indian journalist Saurav Das, dating back to November 2022. These tweets were blocked worldwide “in response to a legal demand,”… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@OfficialSauravD does not remember the exact context of the tweet, according to a report in the daily newspaper The Hindu. Twitter did not inform him about the action, he added.
Dissatisfied with a sketchy response to his right to information (RTI) plea seeking reasons, he is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
India, home to the world’s second-largest internet population, is a key overseas market for Twitter and many other US technology firms, all of which are eager to comply with government demands so that they can remain in the country.
The changes to textbooks were prescribed by the National Council of Educational Research & Training (NCERT), a state-run body under the federal education ministry
Evolution is not the only glaring omission in the textbooks, introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government that has ruled India since 2014.
The NCERT political science textbooks for Grades 11 and 12 also removed a reference to a brief ban on the RSS after India’s iconic freedom fighter Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly called “Mahatma” (noble soul) and revered as… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
In an interview that could cause political earthquakes in the Modi government, the Bharatiya Janata Party and in Jammu and Kashmir, Satya Pal Malik, the last governor of J&K before it was divided and reduced to Union territory status, says “Mein safely keh sakta hoon Prime… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Malik said he had brought all of this to Modi’s attention but added that the PM did not seem to care. That’s when he said, “Mein safely keh sakta hoon Prime Minister ko corruption se bahut nafrat nahin hain”.
On 9 April, the Gujarat police arrested Hindutva star Kajal Shingala, or Kajal Hindustani, for inciting riots at an anti-Muslim rally.
Her metamorphosis—like others—from an obscure Islamophobe to public speaker was enabled by years of virtually unchecked hate speech on social… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
With no roots in India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or its ideological fount, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and no known history of involvement with the Hindu right, Shingala has risen to Hindutva stardom… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…