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Maritime security has made the country safer

Mumbai, formerly Bombay, is revered as the City of Dreams, symbolizing boundless aspirations and opportunities. Countless individuals have realized their ambitions and attained prominence within its embrace, while many others navigate its lanes amidst unfulfilled dreams and disillusionment.

Border fencing

India’s decision to allocate a staggering sum of over Rs 3 lakh crore towards fortifying its border with Myanmar undoubtedly reflects the gravity of the challenges it faces in safeguarding its territorial integrity and national security.

Blame Game

Amidst the chaos and horror of the recent massacre at a Moscow concert hall, one thing is abundantly clear: the finger-pointing and blame game have already begun.

The Missing Links

Often asked to summarise a prepared speech in five minutes, Bharat Ratna Dr MS Swaminathan would demonstrate his innate ability to fluently explain complexities of agriculture, economics, and nutrition in easyto-understand points.

Blasphemous Reality

Importantly, while Imran Khan posits and postures Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Muhammad Iqbal as his role models, his party sensing the mood of the nation had clearly taken a position to oppose any amendment or dilution to Section 295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), which deals with the contentious blasphemy laws. The regrettable admixture of religion and politics has been the bane of societal regression and offering meaningless condolences and other platitudes after every such incident serves no purpose as the slippery slope of identity-based politics only gets slipperier

The cruise that was not to be

To some, this may have seemed a welcome development; the rich world has cruise ships, after all; so too must a poor country. Luckily, sometimes mismanagement works in favour of the environment and so it has been in the case of the Celestyal Experience.

Rural challenges persist on power and clean fuel

Providing access to clean fuels, mainly LPG, is another huge challenge for India. Only five states including Telangana (92), Puducherry (92), Chandigarh (96), Goa (97), and NCT of Delhi (99) have over 90 per cent households with access to clean cooking fuel.

Killer air

Air pollution is a silent killer, and the impact on the Philippines has been grim. Per the report “Aiming Higher: Benchmarking the Philippine Clean Air Act,” approximately 66,000 premature deaths every year in the Filipino populace are linked to PM2.5 and NO2 pollution

Mirror of Death

The Pope has in effect kept his message of “embracing the migrant” in the era of “walls and barbed wire” for migrants. Indeed, Poland’s harsh treatment of migrants at the border puts it at odds with the Catholic Church. He urged the world to face the migrant crisis with respect towards human rights and condemned European nations for not practising the values they promote abroad.