DA Editorial Team Durga Puja in Tripura is a season of lights, music and reunion, and this year the state prepared well, with more than 10,000 police personnel deployed for 3,047 pujas across nine police divisions. Yet the festival has also brought sorrow. On Maha Navami night, a minor died and another was critically injured
DA Editorial Desk|Sara Debbarma Tripura’s young people are among the most mobile in the country. They travel to Delhi, Bengaluru and other cities to study, work and build careers, because opportunities at home are limited. This week brought two reminders of how much they risk. Political parties and leaders have condemned the alleged racial abuse
DA Editorial Desk | Dhruba Deka The Supreme Court will hear a plea on 28 October that goes to the heart of how India keeps its voter lists honest. Two days later, on 30 October, the window for claims and objections in Delhi’s Special Intensive Revision closes. Those two dates sit very close together, and
Tripura’s teacher eligibility test is meant to be the beginning of a career, not the start of a long wait. Yet candidates who qualified the test say they have waited more than a year for recruitment. In September, protesting aspirants said about 40,000 candidates sat the exam and 1,856 qualified. They gave the government a
DA Editorial Desk | Sara Debbarma Delhi’s air has slipped into the “poor” category. At 7 am on Wednesday, the air quality index stood at 219, according to the early warning dashboard run by IITM Pune with the India Meteorological Department. The previous afternoon it had been 179, in the moderate band. The forecast is
DA Editorial Desk | Dhruba Deka US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in India for the second time in five months, and the message he brought to Mumbai was encouraging. After meeting External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on 20 and 21 October, Mr Rubio said the two countries are nearly done with the proposed
DA Editorial Desk | Sara Debbarma France spent the weekend counting the damage from its worst unrest in years. On 17 October, about 550,000 people marched across the country, according to the interior ministry, with the CGT union claiming 800,000. In Lyon a tourist office was set ablaze, town halls were broken into in Marseille
DA Editorial Desk | Dhruba Deka On Sunday, 18 October, an air ambulance carrying a 56-year-old woman from Agartala to Kolkata for treatment made an emergency landing in Dhaka after its main door partially opened mid-flight. According to reports citing PTI, a cabin pressurisation fault occurred while the aircraft was climbing through 12,000 feet, and
DA Editorial Team On 7 October, the United States announced that 14 economies had agreed to a commitment to address global excess industrial capacity, with the European Union also supporting the statement. India is among the countries named as signatories, alongside Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Poland. The group will start with autos,
DA Editorial desk | Dhruba Deka In a year when a war in the Middle East has pushed oil above 100 dollars a barrel and shaken economies from Europe to East Asia, India has done something that deserves acknowledgement: it has kept growing, and growing fast. When the International Monetary Fund released its October World
