Friday, April 19, 2024

ENHANCED NEWS DIGEST dated 19 April 2024, Friday

INDIA (National Affairs)

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase 1 Voting Live Updates: Decision 2024 begins today as polling kicks off for 102 LS seats across 21 states and UTs

Mallikarjun Kharge: ‘My people still not allowed in temples… if I went to Ayodhya, would they have tolerated it?’
Droupadi Murmu, Ram Nath Kovind not called for Ram Temple, new Parliament events as they are SC, ST: Congress president at "The Indian Express Idea Exchange" programme

Plea for 100% verification with VVPAT slips: SC reserves order, says rising turnout shows people’s faith
The Supreme Court on Thursday said the rising voter turnout is an indicator of the people’s faith in the electoral process.

Longest 3 hours, saw death up close: Spanish travel vlogger ‘raped’ in Jharkhand posts video recalling ordeal
The 59-minute video shows one of the culprits whom they met while doing a recce of the place they planned to camp at.

Govt kicks off consultations with domestic industry, Tesla reps, to evolve guidelines for new EV policy
The guidelines are expected to provide more clarity on investments in EV manufacturing in the country, which is at a nascent stage and is expected to grow into a major category within the automobile sector in the coming years.

India Election 2024: What you need to know about Narendra Modi

INDIA (Community Affairs)

How do Muslims in India feel about the general election?

In pivotal India elections, a once-radical ideology could propel Modi to a third term

Far-Right Shadow Advertisers Dominate Indian Poll Spending on Meta for Pro-Modi, Anti-Muslim Push

Very glad he hasn’t lived to see…’: Fareed Zakaria reflects on his father’s life; says India shedding ‘secular skin’
In a conversation with Canadian author and journalist Malcolm Gladwell at an event late last month in New York, Zakaria noted the economic upheaval in India in the last 10 years alongside a rise in Hindu nationalism.

Why a third term for Modi could be ‘catastrophic’ for India’s 200 million Muslims

'Great hatred for word M': Asaduddin Owaisi slams BJP manifesto

FOREIGN

Trump criminal case: Full 12-person jury seated in Manhattan

MUSLIM WORLD

US veto at UN ‘unfair, unethical’ – PA president

EDITORIALS 

Express View on Indian ambassador’s rejoinder to Irish Times editorial: Undiplomatic
Ambassador to Ireland Akhilesh Mishra's conduct belies the mandate of his office. Bureaucrats must remember they work for the government of India – not the party in power.

No more Himalayan blunders, please

OPED ARTICLES

After engineering splits, BJP’s troubles ahead in Maharashtra
BJP might be boasting of its smartness. It may also believe that the road to its success goes via the disruption of the pre-existing patterns of competition in the state. But recent developments in Maharashtra have thrown the state into a social and political mess.

The world cannot turn its back on Sudan and its neighbours any longer
The conflict in Sudan has displaced more than two million people, triggering one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. The international community has a responsibility to do more.

ECONOMIC / BUSINESS / FINANCE

India must invest more in education, health to capitalise on demographic dividend: IMF
If India wants to benefit from population being added to the labour force, it has to prioritise substantially higher spending on both education and health, says Krishna Srinivasan, who directs the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department

MEDIA DEBATE (Alternate Media)

Bihar Election- 2024- Will Modi-Nitish duo be able to repeat their old performance? | ASHUTOSH

MEDIA DEBATE (Mainstream Media)

Clash Of Ideologies, Manifestos: What's At Stake In Phase 1 Of Lok Sabha Election

NEWS FROM RIGHT WING PUBLICATION

The Wire passes off the obvious about Adani-Israel JV as a great investigation, but there is a more sinister plan behind it: Here is what it is
Adani Defence and Aerospace’s spokesperson did not mention where the 20 Drishti 10 drones were exported. Even though this is not unusual, The Wire used this to assert that the company is coy about the country where these UAVs were exported.





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