India-Bangladesh come closer in ties
Enlarging and broad basing its committed policy to strengthen ties with immediate neighbours, India has been very particular to cement its ties with Bangladesh in more pronounced terms. Why not, both the countries have much to go in to cherish and value the 1970 era and thereafter when this country had to bear extraordinary brunt of the offshoots of the Pakistani brutalities on Bengali population then forming East Pakistan and India’s contribution both diplomatic, military and financial towards Bengali people in their fight for their rights and for an independent state. Various sectors and areas are, therefore, attempted to be cooperated in mutually for both countries’ benefits and as a landmark decision to restore the rail link between the two countries which was snapped in 1965 war by Pakistan thrust on India, new chapter of mutual relations has been opened. Not only this, on the eve of the Vijay Diwas (Victory Day), the 50th anniversary ye
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Mainstream, VOL LIX No 1, New Delhi, December 19, 2020
Rabindranath Tagore’s Work and Vision under Peril: Need to Preserve and Protect Visva - Bharati | Aurobindo Ghose
Saturday 19 December 2020, by Aurobindo Ghose
In 1940, a year before he died, Rabindranath Tagore placed a letter in Mahatma Gandhi’s hand. The letter said: Visva-Bharati is like a vessel which is carrying the cargo of my life’s best treasure, and I hope it may claim special care from my countrymen for its preservation”.
A century after being founded in 1921, Tagore’s life’s treasure - the Visva-Bharati University - may now be in peril. Far from being preserved, that vessel - which will have its centenary celebration this December - is rocking.
Baloch warns against premature Senate polls
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December 18, 2020
LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Naib Ameer Liaquat Baloch has warned the PTI government against holding Senate elections prematurely; saying reducing the constitutional tenure of a state institution would open the doors for holding premature elections of parliament and provincial assemblies.
Talking to media Thursday, Baloch expressed concerns that Imran-led government was destroying the democratic parliamentary institutions and process in every possible way. He said the Constitution has laid down the tenure of Senate and procedure of holding elections on preferential proportionate representation basis. He warned that PTI government could not unilaterally amend this constitutional procedure through ordinances, adding that if such a decision was taken it would complicate the existing political, democratic and electoral crises beyond recovery.