New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) China’s industrial rise is due to institutionalised competition among provinces, cities and firms, with the central government acting as a referee and disciplinarian rather than as an engineer, a new report has said.The report from The Globe and Mail called China’s industrial policy “authoritarianism”, adding that it “behaves less like central planning than a state-enabled pressure cooker.”Such a system thrived by enabling rivalry across firms and provinces, with t…
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Ottawa, March 26 (IANS) Khalistani extremists disparaging Shaheed Bhagat Singh, who embraced the noose for India’s independence, is not an act of courage but moral bankruptcy masquerading as activism. Such acts expose “Khalistanism” for what it truly is – “not a liberation theology, but a grievance industry that survives by cannibalising its own history,” a report has highlighted. According to a Khalsa Vox article, in the recent days, social media platform X has once again been inundated with …
Islamabad, Jan 17 (IANS) The abuse of blasphemy laws in Pakistan and the politicisation of Islamophobia in Western democracies reflect a shared strategy designed to silence criticism, safeguard extremist ideologies, and deflect accountability, a report has revealed. It added that both mechanisms undermine public understanding of religion and fuel social polarisation, while the actual perpetrators of violence weaponise faith to pursue their agendas.“Radical extremist groups have increasingly fo…