Author: Debangshu Goswami

The loss of the United States and the Taliban’s takeover of power represents a watershed moment. When Afghan women are leading the resistance, this shows both imperialism and fundamentalism as impediments to human liberation. Taliban The Taliban, also known as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan Deobandi Islamic fundamentalist political and military group. The Taliban now have a de facto rule of Afghanistan, as one of two groups claiming to be the official government of Afghanistan, alongside the internationally recognized Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The Taliban’s philosophy has been defined as a “novel” version of Sharia Islamic law…

Education and the Library are two complementary conceptions that are fundamentally and synchronically tied to and co-exist with one another. One cannot exist apart from the other, and the presence of one is impossible without the existence of the other. Neither is a goal in itself. Instead, they are both a means to an end. The one dies as soon as the other dies. The education system in India is diminishing with time. In India, excellent public education is a primary right, and there is a strong link between public investment in education, child development, and empowerment. The country’s economic…

Kia India has dubbed its new three-row SUV the Kia Carens, which will make its premiere later this month. The Kia Carens is a three-row people-mover with an SUV-like look that will compete with the Hyundai Alcazar. And even the Mahindra XUV700. The Kia Carens will be in India in the first quarter of 2022, but the car will go on sale this month on December 16. Kia is preparing to add a fourth car to its India inventory after releasing the Seltos, Carnival, and Sonet. The following Kia vehicle to going to release in India will be a three-row…

  “Angela Merkel is delegating the chancellorship to a guy. However, at a landmark event for the country, women would be in charge of all security and diplomacy departments in the next government.”   In Berlin, Germany will be led by a male for the first time in 16 years. Even though Angela Merkel is turning over the chancellery to a man, the upcoming cabinet will include more women than ever before. To be precise, half. The next chancellor, Olaf Scholz, honoured his election pledge to select as many women as males to his ministry, and not only that, but…

During Question Hour, Minister Jitendra Singh claimed that, unlike in the past, when nuclear initiatives were limited to a few states such as Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, the department has now moved northwards. By 2024, the country will have nine nuclear reactors. The administration notified the Rajya Sabha that a new nuclear plant in northern India would be built 150 kilometers from Delhi in Gorakhpur, Haryana. According to Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions, “By 2024, there will be nine nuclear reactors, plus 12 new ones permitted during the Covid era, with a total…

The Farm Laws Repeal Bill, 2021, which attempted to repeal three laws passed last year to relax restrictions governing the sale, pricing, and storage of farm products, was introduced in Lok Sabha and passed in minutes; it was then introduced in Rajya Sabha and approved by voice vote. The entire workout took two hours to complete.  The bill now requires President Ram Nath Kovind’s signature to formally remove the three problematic legislation farmers have been protesting for the past year.  Opposition parties in both Houses, led by Congress, wanted a debate on the repeal bill but could not get it…

On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that the true honour of the Indian Constitution rests in recognising the difficulties of crores of people who lack bathrooms, water, and power and making their lives simpler.  On November 26, the Constitution Day, he spoke at the inaugural function of the Supreme Court registry’s Constitution Day celebrations, saying that the drafters of the Constitution gave us the Constitution in the light of the dreams seen by the people who lived and died for Independence, as well as by cherishing India’s thousands of years of great traditions.   He stated that it is a truth that a significant…

It further stated that India and the United States would maintain “tight communication” to ensure that there is a shared understanding of the respective obligations and that any subsequent disagreements on this topic be handled via constructive discourse. According to the ministry, the full provisions of the deal will be finalized by February 1, 2022, “Under this contract, and consistent with and applying the same terms as previous agreements with Austria, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Turkey, account from India’s equalization levy on e-commerce number of sets that US companies are accruing in India during the interim period…

M-Live provides a first-of-its-kind, interactive, and real-time live shopping experience to millions of consumers around the country. Myntra, an e-commerce platform, enabled social commerce at scale, including live shopping, to respond to customers’ fast-changing content consumption patterns and purchase preferences.  Myntra plans to produce around 1,000 hours of live video content each month to increase customer interaction and contribute to the creative economy phenomena. It expects social commerce to involve around half of its monthly active users during the next 3-4 years.  Myntra stated that it intends to change the way people purchase by bridging the gap between inspiration and…

Bulldozers are hollowing out a cavernous new canyon that is essential to the world’s urgent struggle against global warming just up a red dirt road over an area of tall, dew-soaked plants. This pristine terrain was under the custody of an American corporation for more than a decade. Now that it is purchased, a Chinese mining corporation is scrambling to recover its buried treasure: millions of tonnes of cobalt. Kisan, a region in southeast Congo, is home to one of the world’s biggest and purest undiscovered cobalt sources. Historically, the metal, often mined from copper resources, has been of secondary…