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The Explained Desk of The Indian Express writes analyses and explanatory articles on a range of topics, including current affairs, politics, global events, sports, health and lifestyle.
The aim of this Bill is to affirm the friendships of the governments of the US and India and to establish a bilateral partnership, “for collaboration to advance development and shared values, and for other purposes”.
She is the first South Asian American woman elected to the US House of Representatives, and one of only 14 naturalized citizens currently serving in the US Congress.
The Plan mentions the aim to increase the nursing workforce by over 40,000 by 2024, and to reduce vacancies to 5 per cent by 2028. The Plan underlines the need to increase international recruitment in the short and medium term, among other measures.
On Wednesday, the German Cabinet approved a draft Bill widening the scope of government action against the "therapy", which can include giving electric shocks to force homosexual people to turn heterosexual.
The forced child labour case, filed in a court in Washington DC by International Rights Advocates, names Apple, Alphabet (Google's parent), Dell, Microsoft and Tesla as defendants.
The warrant of execution, commonly referred to as a "black warrant" can be challenged if the trial court has violated conditions laid down by the Supreme Court.
When the AIADMK decided to support the citizenship Bill, it took the risk of being seen as abandoning the cause of over 1 lakh Lankan refugees living in camps for three decades.
Simply put, pontifical secret, or simply "papal secrecy", was the diktat of confidentiality that secured and kept secret all sensitive information on aspects of the governance of the Church.
According to the UNHCR, the first GRF is being held "at the end of a tumultuous decade in which the number of refugees has risen to over 25 million people worldwide".
The composition of the Lok Sabha has remained more or less the same for four decades. How is it determined, and what are the arguments for and against a change?
The rise in milk prices reflects rising consumer food inflation, which in November touched 10.01%, the first time it has crossed single digits since December 2013.
The failure of the talks underlined starkly the massive gap between what scientists say the world's nations need to do on climate change, and what powerful political leaders are prepared to even discuss, let alone actually do.
The police action in Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia, where the police entered the campus and employed force against students, is being widely criticised. What do the Constitution and laws of India say on the right of police to intervene in a protests and agitations?
Several media reports have quoted the Maori as saying they had been living in fear of the ancestor’s rage at the relentless tourist tours to the island.
Until 2011, President Omar al-Bashir ruled over Sudan with an iron fist. The period of his rule was marked by allegations of oppression, genocide, and human rights abuses.
In a press release issued on December 13, the UN human rights body said: “A new law in India which expedites citizenship for certain religious minorities has been criticized by the UN human rights office for being “fundamentally discriminatory in nature.”
The Bill seeks to include the Taliwara, Parivara and Siddi tribal communities in the Scheduled Tribes (ST) list, which will ensure that they get reservation and other benefits provided by the government in Karnataka.
The Gangetic river dolphins were officially discovered in 1801 and are one of the oldest creatures in the world along with some species of turtles, crocodiles and sharks, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
Critics of the trade deal were saying on Saturday that it would bring only temporary relief in the over 18-month-old trade war between the US and China.
