India

India has the second highest number of coronavirus infection cases in the world. The number currently stands at 5.7 million and continues to increase. India adds almost one lakh cases every day to its tally of total cases.

Has the pandemic locked us into a high-tech dystopia? Two high profile social activists, Vandana Shiva in India, and Canadian author Naomi Klein, have both been warning of an age they call Digital Dictatorship, when the giants of the tech world will dominate the economy, and all our lives.

A comparison of Indian laws versus European, American, and Middle Eastern regarding punishment of marijuana users and pushers and sellers shows startling differences.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) today issued a statement saying that yet another attempt by China, trying to meddle in “India’s internal matter” and trying to bring it up at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has met with “little support from the international community”.

The two Asian giants have constantly had face-offs with each other. While the present one along the LAC is more serious, with winter approaching, India should be prepared for the long haul.

History has recorded nations carrying out their expansionist agendas with different outcomes. The face-off in Ladakh has shown China’s bid to annex Indian territory in open defiance of world opinion.

Nepal’s amendment of its Constitution to incorporate a new map with three Indian territories in it seems to be at the behest of China, which has increasingly gained a foothold there. By Col R Hariharan

Recalling a breakthrough visit by the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to Beijing and how a new high in relations often precedes a new low.

BJP President JP Nadda said at a rally in Madhya Pradesh that he was “amazed that amazed that the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation received 3 hundred thousand USD from the People's Republic of China & the Chinese Embassy in 2005-06. This is the secret relation of Congress & China".

Senior Congress leader Karan Singh has in a statement expressed deep regret and dismay over the stand taken by Nepal's Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on the territorial dispute between India and Nepal.