Situation so far: As junior doctors’ protests continue, decorators on Wednesday night were seen removing tents, bamboo sticks, and pedestal fans from the protest site in front of Swasthya Bhavan. Protestors now claim that “external pressure” is causing decorators, who had installed fans for them, to now take them down. “It could be an effort to demoralize us,” said a junior doctor, “but we would like to clearly say that for a protest, we don’t need all this. We can protest from anywhere and in any possible way.” Junior doctors announced their decision to continue their protest and cease work after…
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Proposal Union minister Ashwini Vishnaw declared on Wednesday that the plan for nationwide simultaneous elections that would align votes for the Lok Sabha and state Assemblies has been approved by the Union Cabinet. The decision is the result of months of consideration and the submission of a report on the ‘one nation, one election’ concept by a high-level committee led by former President Ram Nath Kovind. The paper lays out a detailed implementation roadmap for simultaneous elections and was presented before the Cabinet on Wednesday. The group had suggested holding simultaneous elections for the state and Lok Sabha assemblies as…
India Iran’s relation so far: India and Iran tend to share a good relationship, illustrated by strong economic ties. In May, they signed a 10-year contract to develop and operate the Iranian port of Chabahar, on Iran’s southeastern coast. India is developing the port as a gateway to exports to Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia, allowing it to bypass the ports of Karachi and Gwadar in rival Pakistan. In May the two countries signed a 10-year agreement to develop and manage the Iranian port of Chabahar, located on Iran’s south-eastern coast Ayatollah Khamenei’s comments: Earlier on Monday, Iran’s Supreme Leader…
