Author Archives for udayindia
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Dissecting Halalonomics
SDMC’s recent direction that all hotels, restaurants and meat shops have to specify as to what meat they are selling–halal or jhatka–is making a buzz. What is more, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) of the... View Article
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Challenges Before Theatre Commands
Will the year 2021 see the realisation of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat’s proposed road¬map for the restructuring of the Indian Armed Forces into five distinct ‘Theatre commands’? This is, indeed, a radical reform-proposal pertaining to... View Article
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Temples under attack in andhra Pradesh
During the medieval period the marauding Muslim invaders destroyed the temples, desecrated the idols, disfigured the sculpture, burnt the temple properties and occupied the sacred Hindu places. For those who think that is history and there is no repetition of... View Article
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Karnataka panchayat elections: Winning spree of BJP
Since coming to power about a year and half earlier, BJP in this southern state has set the election winning spree. First, it won 10 of the 12 assembly by-elections and secured absolute majority in the state assembly. Then, it... View Article
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Why Did BJP Leader Subramanian Swamy Lambast PM’s Principal Scientific Advisor Vijay Raghavan?
Predictably, Swami, who has 10.1 million Twitter followers, was flooded with responses, with many asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi to remove Raghavan from the post and find out who had advised him to appoint such an “anti-national” person. Equally predictably,... View Article
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Halalonomics: The Danger Within
In a welcome move, South Delhi Municipal Corporation has cleared a proposal that makes it mandatory for restaurants and meat shops in its jurisdiction to prominently display whether the meat they are serving is halal or jhatka. For the uninitiated,... View Article
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Goat Caught in Political Cauldroon
The controversy raging over eating halal or jhatka meat has left many confounded. The social platforms are crowded with pranks and hilarious examples; jokes stay afloat and people have begun to make digs at politicos for stoking the blazing inferno.... View Article
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“BJP’s development-oriented policies paid off in Kashmir elections”
“After 70 years, DDC elections in Jammu-Kashmir were held in three layers. After the abrogation of Article 370, those people who used to claim that nobody in the Valley would pick up the tricolour have got a befitting reply from... View Article
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The China-Pakistan-Turkey Axis
When Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited China in February 2019 he did not criticize China for human rights violations against Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang where a million Uighur are incarcerated in concentration camps. Despite this when China... View Article
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Bandhs/Road/Rail Blockades Illegal And Unconstitutional: Gauhati High Court
At a time when the most dangerous trend of blockade of roads and rails is increasing as we saw in Rajasthan during Gujjar reservation rail and road blockade, rail blockade for months in Punjab during farm laws protest and now... View Article
