Wednesday, 19 January, 2022
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British MP & Padma Shri recipient Barry Gardiner received funds from ‘Chinese spy’, MI5 claims

Shubhangi Misra -
Gardiner, who represents Brent North and enjoys the support of a huge Indian diaspora, allegedly received over £5 lakh over six years from ‘Chinese spy’ Christine Lee and her law firm.

The UK is being consumed by Brexit more than Covid

Flavia Krause-Jackson -
For PM Boris Johnson, Brexit & the pandemic are morphing into a political demon slipping out of his control. Now, UK civil servants have been told to avoid the word Brexit.

‘Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh’ — Helena Bonham Carter-starrer ad toasts curry’s place in UK culture

Raghav Bikhchandani -
Indian curry, which has long been a significant part of British cuisine, fanned some new social media reactions after an ad featuring British actor Helena Bonham Carter was released this week.

‘Turbaned strangers’ — British questioned, sorted and colour-coded Indian POWs after Dunkirk

Ghee Bowman -
In ‘The Indian Contingent’, Ghee Bowman writes about the 9,711 Indian soldiers —including from Bose’s INA — recovered after the world war and sent back to India.

Team Bajwa now betting on UK to promote Taliban — to get to US indirectly

Ayesha Siddiqa -
Pakistan Army chief General Bajwa is keenly engaged with the UK to market himself as someone who can turn things around, including handling the Taliban.

UK cites variant of Indian origin as reason for decreasing gap between vaccine doses

Sravasti Dasgupta -
The interval between the doses have been reduced from 12 weeks to 8 weeks. In contrast, India has increased the gap between Covishield doses to 12-16 weeks.

How Hashemite Kingdom emerged from Ottoman, British rule to modern-day Jordan

Pia Krishnankutty -
The Hashemite Kingdom has long been considered a stable power in West Asia but the alleged attempted coup by the country’s former crown prince has rocked the region.

Has India become China’s colony? Seems like, going by what we import and what we export

Remya Nair -
Figures between 2014-15 and 2019-20 show that export of low-value raw materials & import of high-value manufactured goods characterised India's trade with China.

Should museums be woke? Europe’s war against ‘negativity’

Rama Lakshmi -
Students, curators and museums in Europe and the US are digging up their own history. But national pride is coming in the way of justice.

Britain had become paranoid of India-US friendship. Nehru’s letter to Roosevelt didn’t help

Meenakshi Ahamed -
In ‘A Matter Of Trust’, Meenakshi Ahamed writes that Nehru had reached out to US President Roosevelt for American help in the lead up to World War-II
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What it will take to vaccinate the world against Covid

Clara Ferreira Marques -
A Q&A with vaccine scientist Peter Hotez, author of 'Preventing the Next Pandemic', on developing a low-cost Covid vaccine, and why Omicron won’t be the end of the pandemic.
File photo of PM Narendra Modi with his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa in New Delhi | Bloomberg

Sri Lanka in ‘debt trap’, India’s response shows pushback against China has begun

File Photo of Novak Djokovic |Bloomberg/ Carla Gottgens|

Modi, Rahul Gandhi, and Djokovic — what liberals miss

Economy

File photo of Mukesh Ambani | Photographer: Prodip Guha/Getty Images via Bloomberg

Reliance buys robotics startup Addverb for Rs 1,000 crore to fuel tech ambitions

Saritha Rai -
Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest person, is investing in technology as competition from rivals such as Amazon intensifies in India’s booming e-commerce market.

Defence

National Defence Academy | Twitter | Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff

Why was number of women cadets for NDA fixed at 19 in 2022, same as 2021, SC asks Centre

Bhadra Sinha -
UPSC notification issued December 2021 says first phase of NDA exam for 2022 scheduled in April. Notification declares 19 women candidates will be chosen out of 400 successful ones.

National Interest

Illustration by Soham Sen | ThePrint

Read my lips, I’m hurting, says Pakistan’s National Security Policy. What it means for India

Shekhar Gupta -
The new policy is mostly chaff, but it reveals the most inward-looking Pakistan in 3 decades. It needs breathing space, and is realising loss of stature and friendship with US.

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