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Saturday, November 2, 2024
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Topic: Smog

Two acronyms dominated this morning’s headlines: RBI and CBI

Simrin Sirur -
Your daily news capsule.

Virat Kohli ‘over-rated’, says fan, Twitter goes berserk

Simrin Sirur -
Your daily news capsule.

New Delhi shows if future megacities would be a marvel or a mess

Jill Ward -
With a population that’s swelling by about 700,000 each year, India’s capital could be the world’s biggest megacity by 2028.

Beijing’s air is the cleanest it has ever been in a decade, and this is how it happened

Bloomberg News -
China is hoping to reduce the amount of energy it derives from coal by substituting it with natural gas and nuclear reactors.

Looking up virgin in a dictionary to waging war on Christmas: The A to Z of India’s 2017

Sandip Roy -
India was so weird in 2017, it took an alphabetic guide to understand it.

I can engage with Kejriwal if he offers funds to compensate farmers: Amarinder Singh

Chitleen K Sethi -
Punjab CM says stubble burning can’t be solved just by two states unless the Centre steps in; stresses need for reuse of crop residue.

Talk Point: A representative govt can’t ignore women’s security in a city like Delhi

Ashutosh -
The government's responsibility is to ensure that those who are restricted from driving private vehicles, should have alternative modes of transport.

Talk Point: Scientifically, exemptions defeat the purpose of odd-even

Barun Aggarwal -
The reason why exemptions are given is because our public transport is unable to handle the demand, and is considered unsafe.

Talk Point: Being an emergency measure, odd-even cannot have exemptions

Polash Mukerjee -
The total number of cars moved off the roads during previous odd-evens was so small that pollution came down only by 7%.

Talk Point: Odd-even without exemptions is a stay-at-home scheme for the disabled

Nipun Malhotra -
The disabled were not originally exempt from odd-even. I was forced to file a PIL in the Delhi HC that granted us an exemption
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Opinion

As a Hindu Canadian, I am deeply hurt by cancellation of Diwali. My community is now sidelined

Ritesh Malik -
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.

Countdown to 2027 has begun. India must pick strategic alliance with US, balance with old friendships

AI can fix India’s reputation as a TB hub

Economy

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

ThePrint Team -
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Defence

Indian firms sanctioned by US didn’t violate laws, says MEA. Hyderabad firm that supplied to Army on list

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.

National Interest

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

Shekhar Gupta -
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.

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