• Did COVID-19 Usher in a Global Government?

    In 2020, a dangerous pathogen swept the globe. The pandemic required government action, we were told, but the government of one nation was not enough. Even powerful governments (like that of the United States) worked with other governments to keep pandemic measures from being futile. In order to avoid a fatal lack of coordination, some

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    The Modi-fication of India Is Almost Complete

    Indians head to the polls on April 19 and are expected to hand Prime Minister Narendra Modi another five-year term.

    • CNBC

    CNBC Inside India: Musk and Modi

    Tesla chief Elon Musk is set to meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi soon, and the timing couldn't be any better.

    • Time

    How India’s Economy Has Really Fared Under Modi

    Talk of an economic miracle is foundational to Modi's appeal and legitimacy at home. Yet his record is far from clear cut.

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    Looks Like We Have Our 2024 Version of COVID-19

    What COVID-19 was to the 2020 election, this will be for 2024. And no, it’s not a

  • The real reason why Modi says what he does – Hindu India accepts it

    The prime minister’s bigotry is who he is. Whether Hindu society can or wants to change is the big question that will be answered in these elections.

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    India's Narendra Modi accused of anti-Muslim hate speech

    Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. India’s main opposition party is accusing prime minister Narendra Modi of using hate speech, after he called Muslims quote, “infiltrators.” It was some of his most incendiary rhetoric about the minority faith, and came days after the country began its weeks-long general election. The remarks at a campaign rally Sunday drew fierce criticism that Modi […]

  • Reporting in India ‘too difficult’ under Modi, says departing Australian journalist

    Despite eventual visa backflip by authorities, ABC’s south-Asia correspondent Avani Dias left after being made to ‘feel so uncomfortable’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe south-Asia correspondent for Australia’s national broadcaster, Avani Dias, has been forced out of India after her reporting fell foul of the Indian government, in a sign of the increasing pressure on journalists in the country under...

  • Arrests, raids and infighting: India's battered opposition takes on Modi

    The unwieldy alliance has had leaders arrested and bank accounts frozen as it tries to unseat the PM.

  • Narendra Modi accused of stirring tensions as voting in India continues

    Opposition says prime minister targeting Muslim minority with ‘hate speech’ and violating election rulesIndia’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has been accused of hate speech during a campaign rally where he called Muslims “infiltrators” who had “many children” and claimed they would take people’s hard-earned money.The opposition accused Modi of “blatantly targeting” India’s 200 million Muslim minority with comments made while addressing voters at a speech in Rajasthan on Sunday. Continue...

  • Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

    The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the source of the virus that killed millions and paralyzed the world for months.

  • Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

    The Chinese government froze meaningful efforts to trace the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, despite publicly declaring that it supported an open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investigation has found. The AP drew on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents, leaked recordings and dozens of interviews that showed the freeze began far earlier than previously known — in the first weeks of the outbreak — and involved political and scientific infighting in China as much as...