Will India Print Its Own Version Of A Global Democracy Report? Know Details
Discussions about an Indian think tank publishing such reports were on even before the US Freedom House and V-Dem downgraded India s status Representational Image Outlook Web Bureau 2021-03-17T10:19:22+05:30 Will India Print Its Own Version Of A Global Democracy Report? Know Details outlookindia.com 2021-03-17T12:33:01+05:30
The ministry of external affairs on Wednesday decided to mull “world democracy report” and “global press freedom index” to be brought out by an independent Indian think tank, HT reported quoting sources familiar with the matter.
This comes days after reports by Freedom House and V-Dem Institute downgraded India’s democratic rankings.
Venezuela is mired in a prolonged, multifaceted crisis, to which no solutions are in sight. In the wake of the country’s December 2020 parliamentary election, the EU needs to rethink some of the basic premises of its policy toward Venezuela. Instead of quarreling about which domestic actors and political institutions should be recognized as democratic, the EU should approach the country through a lens of conflict resolution. While a democracy-based framework divides the EU and a broad range of other external actors, a framework focused on conflict resolution may increase the chances of a more coordinated international response. That approach may be more likely to lead eventually and indirectly to some kind of inclusive political settlement in Venezuela.
Even Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi. : Rahul Gandhi hits out at PM Modi
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Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday drew a parallel between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and despotic rulers of the past. During a virtual interaction with Brown University s professor Ashutosh Varshney, the Congress leader made a rather unflattering comparison to Iraq s dictator Saddam Hussein and Libya s Muammar Gaddafi. Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi used to have elections. They used to win them. It wasn t like they weren t voting but there was no institutional framework to protect that vote, Rahul Gandhi said. He had been responding to a remark on India s recent downgradation by several democracy and freedom indexes.
Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi too won elections : Rahul Gandhi takes a dig at Centre
Citing the examples of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, Gandhi said even they used to have elections and win those, but there was no institutional framework to protect that vote
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Rahul Gandhi alleged that the RSS has captured India s institutions and it has been doing so openly since 2014 when the BJP came to power at the Centre
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday, March 17, took a dig at PM Modi-led central government saying that electoral democracy can be destroyed in the 21st century if one can control social media and institutions and has financial dominance.
Situation much worse — Rahul Gandhi on reports about India s freedom index, democracy theprint.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theprint.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.