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Nine state stops on road to Lok Sabha 2024

  
The Indian Express - 12.26.2022 Original article ›
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Nine states in India will have elections for the state assembly in 2023 before the Lok Sabha parliamentary elections in 2024. The states include Karnataka in May, in the northeast Tripura, Meghalaya, Nagaland in Feb-March, and Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhatisgarh, Telengana in Nov-Dec. India's modernization depends on strong execution of development plans between now and 2030, which will require a strong and stable government for the country.

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PM Modi virtually distributes appointment letters to 71,000 people as part of Rozgar Mela

  
The Hindu - 01.20.2023 Original article ›
The Hindu Bureau
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The effort by prime minister Modi under Rozgar Mela to create 1 million new jobs in 2023 to mitigate the effect of the lockdowns during the pandemic and its effects on jobs. 71,000 new job appointment letters were given in a virtual event. Modi emphasized that "transparency in recruitment and promotion inspires confidence in the youth."  He called the process streamlined and time bound to demonstrate good governance.

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Ukraine’s Electric-Repair Crews Become Unlikely Wartime Heroes

  
WSJ - 01.11.2023 Original article ›
Alistair Mac Donald | Photographs By Joseph Sywenkyj For The Wall Street Journal
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Emergency teams face subfreezing temperatures as they work to keep the power on in Ukraine. Russia has attacked Ukrainian electricity power grid causing blackouts in many areas. This attack on civilian infrastructure is one aspect of the war in addition to the millions of refugees woman and children, that has caused particular outrage in Europe and America that Russia is following a pattern that is unacceptable in the course of human affairs.

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China property sales could plunge by one-third, analysts say, as crisis deepens

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The Guardian - 07.26.2022 Original article ›
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Property sales are estimated to fall by 28-33% in China, twice as earlier forecast by S&P Global Ratings. This is a steep decline that will affect the Chinese economy so dependent on construction. This week there were reports of property buyers in 100 cities getting together to withhold payments on unfinished apartments. Property developers depend on these payments as they have severe liquidity problems and need cash for operations.

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Why Amul can’t beat Nandini: Karnataka’s Rs 1,200-crore incentive to farmers

  
The Indian Express - 04.10.2023 Original article ›
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The Rs 6 per litre incentive to dairy producers in Karnataka has increased milk production in the state. This has led to Nandini and another cooperative based in Anand, Gujarat, Amul Dairy, to makeup 60% of all procurement by dairy farm cooperatives in India. Price of milk is about Rs 50-60 per litre, About Rs 240 per gallon, equivalent to about $3 a gallon similar to the price in the US.

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When ‘Top Secret’ Is Not So Secret

  
NYTimes.com - 04.14.2023 Original article ›
Helene Cooper, Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt
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This NYT report asks the question that is uppermost on people's minds about the document leaks at the Department of Defense. How is it that a very junior National guardsman such as Jack Teixeira at the age of 21 years is able to access documents showing daily briefings at the highest level of the Department of Defense. What about the security clearance system existing today in the US is inadequate.

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How Germany Is Curing Its Dependence on Russian Energy

  
WSJ - 05.17.2022 Original article ›
Bojan Pancevski
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Deals made with Qatar, Norway, and Poland are helping Germany achieve energy independence. Economy minister Habeck has worked hard to negotiate these deals and bring new leadership to the energy ministry after decades of neglect of Germany's energy independence by chancellor Merkel and Mr. Schroeder who preceded Merkel. This WSJ report shows how Habeck reversed decades of neglect in a few months to establish the foundations of German energy independence.

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Chaos in Germany and Italy after suspension of Oxford vaccine

  
The Guardian - 03.16.2021 Original article ›
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The Guardian shows pictures of empty vaccination center in Erfurt, Germany, as the use of the Astra Zeneca vaccine is temporarily paused. The European Medicines Agency says the vaccination benefits far outweighs any side effects from rare blood clots. UK Health and Medicine Regulatory Agency and health experts also confirm this. Astra Zeneca says its trials showed fewer blood clots in those people who were vaccinated than in the people not vaccinated.

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Liz Cheney puts Speaker hopes on the line to impeach President Trump

  
The Times - 01.14.2021 Original article ›
Henry Zeffman, Washington
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Both the Democratic and Republican parties are in danger of splitting as reader comments to this analysis in The Times shows. The progressive wing of the Democratic Party has little in common with the rest of the party. The Republican party has shifted to take on the working class base of the traditional Democratic party creating a confusing array of interests in each party with no particular sense of loyalty.

 

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America Made a Huge Bet on Sports Gambling. The Backlash Is Here.

  
WSJ - 03.28.2024 Original article ›
Joshua Robinson, Jared Diamond, Robert O'connell
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The 2018 Supreme Court decision allowing sports gambling and betting has serious negative consequences for sports in America by 2024. So much so that the NCAA president Charlie Baker has called for a nationwide ban on the bets on the performance of college athletes. WSJ says a nightmare scenario emerged from the experience of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball player Shohei Ohtani and the betting scandal related to his interpreter.

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A Journey to the Raw, Far-Flung and Unique Island of Tasmania

  
WSJ - 03.29.2024 Original article ›
Tony Perrottet
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The remoteness of Tasmania can be felt even from Australia. It was and is still densely forested, and made a home for the worst offenders from British slums sent to this penal colony. The capital Hobart is now a tourist location for Americans and Europeans, and for seeing the wildlife in this area, and scenery that is from a far flung an unique island off the coast of Australia.

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Himars Transform the Battle for Ukraine—and Modern Warfare

  
WSJ - 10.08.2022 Original article ›
Stephen Kalin, Daniel Michaels | Photographs By Adrienne Surprenant /Myop For The Wall Street Journal
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The high mobility small footprint and precision strike of the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System or HIMARS is shown here in the WSJ. It was supplies to Ukraine to defend itself and has stalled a Russian invasion in Donbas region, and led to retreat of Russian forces in the east Kharkiv region and in the south Kherson region war fronts. Additional 18 Himars are being given by US to Ukraine.

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Nobel Prize: Svante Paabo wins the 2022 award for medicine for discoveries involving human evolution | DW | 03.10.2022

  
DW.COM - 10.11.2022 Original article ›
Fred Schwaller, Zulfikar Abbany
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A gene variant that has come down from Neanderthals has increased the risk of severe covid is something learned from the research done by Svante Paabo of Sweden at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Paabo received the Nobel Prize for Medicine from his home country Sweden. His work shows the genomic changes that differentiate humans from Neanderthals, and also that Neanderthals contributed genes that still exist in humans.

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Hungary’s Orban, a Scourge of Liberals, Faces a New Foe: Economics

  
NYTimes.com - 10.18.2022 Original article ›
Andrew Higgins, Benjamin Novak
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This NYT report on Hungary and Mr. Orban is critical of current events in Hungary, yet requires reading between the lines, as the country has a long history and experienced many changes. There have been difficulties under both free markets and socialist policy in Hungary and Mr. Orban is adapting policy to the situation in Hungary for ordinary people without adhering to either policy and adapting as he goes along.

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The Two Faces of China’s Surveillance State

  
WSJ - 09.02.2022 Original article ›
Josh Chin And Liza Lin
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How the surveillance state tries to solve the problems of modern living, keeping cities clean and livable, is shown here for the city of Hangzhou in China. With growth slowing Chinese society is evolving in a different direction with the government trying to solve the problems of modern living such as traffic congestion, food safety, missing children, and sanitation, using AI and sensor technology, and not promising a ever growing economy.

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China Warns New Zealand Against Squandering Trade Ties

  
WSJ - 06.02.2022 Original article ›
Stephen Wright
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New Zealand faces the need to look for other overseas market following the changing situation for Australia that led to trade friction with China. Australia has diversified its exports to follow policies in the Indo-Pacific with the US, India and Japan as allies. Last weeks meeting of the New Zealand prime minister Ardern with president Biden led to a joint declaration by both countries on Pacific Ocean security.

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How the U.S. Became the World’s Biggest Gas Supplier

  
NYTimes.com - 02.03.2024 Original article ›
Brad Plumer, Nadja Popovich
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The US has become the world's largest gas supplier and provides a lifeline to Europe as it struggles with a cutoff of Russian natural gas supplies. The NYT looks at this remarkable development with graphs showing how this happened. This also makes it possible to lower the cost of gas for heating homes this winter in the US to ease the cost of living burden on US households.

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55 Things You Need to Know About Nikki Haley

  
POLITICO - 02.21.2024 Original article ›
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This Politico report looks at the political career of Nikki Haley, 52 year old former governor of South Carolina. She comes across as a woman of resilience who did not at all let her situation as an immigrant's daughter in a southern state in the US faze her. Her parents come from highly educated background in India, and this may have given her that extra layer of resilience at home.

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Beijing’s Pivot to Growth Comes Very Late

  
WSJ - 12.15.2022 Original article ›
Nathaniel Taplin
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China has made an astonishing turn away from covid restrictions. Yet this comes after three years that hurt growth which will affect the recovery says this column in WSJ. China is looking for 5% growth in 2023. Problems in the way are a public affected by the lockdowns, a covid surge, housing that will take time to recover, and diversification by Foxconn and other companies away from China to India, Vietnam.

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What Just Happened at Credit Suisse? - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts

  
WSJ - 03.17.2023 Original article ›
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WSJ looks at Credit Suisse, a Swiss bank that took a $50 billion loan from the Swiss central bank during the current crisis after the collapse of SVB bank.  After a series of scandals and penalties at Credit Suisse, the Saudi National Bank took a 9% stake in the bank. The Saudis say they will not put any additional capital in the Swiss bank, leading to share value dropping by 24%.

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Well integrated: Ukrainian refugees in the Czech Republic – DW – 03/19/2023

  
dw.com - 03.20.2023 Original article ›
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Czech Republic Interior Minister Vit Rakusan says that the country has taken in over a half a million Czech refugees without overburdening or crashing our health and education systems. 100,000 have jobs in the labor market using admission mechanisms for this purpose and 50,000 children are in Czech schools. This puts the country at the forefront in taking in Ukraine refugees and integrating them in relation to its population.

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For the G.O.P., a Looming Trump Indictment Takes Center Stage

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NYTimes.com - 03.21.2023 Original article ›
Shane Goldmacher, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Annie Karni
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Florida Governor Ron de Santis is critical of Mr. Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney, for indictment of Mr. Trump. Yet he also says-"I don't know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair. I just can't speak to that." The Republican party for the most part sees the situation differently now. 

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‘Finally…’: Virat Kohli caught on stump mic using iconic WWE catchphrase to welcome back Bumrah

  
The Indian Express - 12.29.2021 Original article ›
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"Finally the rock is back," says Virat Kohli, as Jasprit Bumrah, returns to the pitch after an injury. Bumrah took the wicket of South African batsman Elgar with a ball that commentators called unplayable before the injury. The third day of the 1st Test against South Africa was a day for bowlers as Rabada, Ngidi, Bumrah and Shami tore through the Indian and South African batting attack. 

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The Ashes: the inside story of an England camp divided, distracted and desperate for golf

  
The Times - 01.18.2022 Original article ›
Simon Wilde, Hobart
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The story told in The Times how England collapsed to a 4-0 loss in Ashes Cricket Tests against Australia in 2022. Lack of preparation, poor selection of bowlers, and a better prepared Australian team led to the debacle. There is also the history of performance in Australia- since 1990 England won only 6 Tests out of 45 Test played in Australia, and lost 32 Tests, with 7 drawn.

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Boeing Reports Loss as 787 Charges Mount

  
WSJ - 01.26.2022 Original article ›
Andrew Tangel
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Boeing reports a third annual loss in a row. As production problems and delivery delays for the Dreamliner 787 Boeing cost an additional $4.5 billon in the final quarter of 2021. Of this $3.5 billion is to compensate customers for the delays, and abnormal production costs forecast to be double than earlier estimated. Boeing expects deliveries to start in April and sees losses as behind it once deliveries start.

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