Abhirup Paul was booked under several provisions of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, including those relating to unlawful assembly & promoting enmity, and those of Maharashtra Police Act.
HR Khanna Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, and convocation ceremonies at Mumbai’s TISS and Sonipat’s OP Jindal Global University were cancelled/postponed.
Anticipatory bail plea rejected over tweaked slogan combined with objectionable material & Maoist books in devices of students, suggesting influence of banned organisations.
A recent ground report in The Print documented anxieties about repression within sections of TISS academia. What they experience as persecution is withdrawal of exceptional insulation.
Institute flags non-payment of fees, overstay as reasons for notice; students allege caste discrimination, say pandemic days have been counted as part of 5-year stay.
When politicians ‘clock’ or ‘flex’ or talk about ‘OGs’ because of their ‘FOMO’, it’s giving ‘delulu’ politics—Gen Z may be perceiving it as an invasion of their space.
India imported around 1.42 mn barrels per day of Russian crude in first 14 days of September, about 30% lower than August average of around 2.1 mbpd, Kpler data shows.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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