Author: Cheeno Muzumdar

(9/3 – 125) Kazakhstan is gearing up for snap elections of the lower house of parliament on March 19, and there is a sense of anticipation in the air. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who came to power in 2019, called for snap elections in the wake of the deadly street protests in January 2022. The elections are part of the president’s ambitious reform agenda, Jana Kazakhstan (New Kazakhstan), which aims to usher in a new era of political liberalization. The parliamentary elections are stage two of Tokayev’s program, following his re-election winning 80 percent of the votes last November. The coming…

Following a tip, India Today’s undercover reporters visited the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Varanasi, headed by its deputy director Suresh Chandra. By Md Hizbullah, Nitin Jain: Some rogue scientists at some of the country’s top crime labs have been caught on India Today’s camera offering to manipulate forensic reports in exchange for bribes. Following a tip, India Today’s undercover reporters visited the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Varanasi, headed by its deputy director Suresh Chandra. Posing as agents of a fictitious murder suspect, the reporters met him twice. Chandra offered to falsify the forensic report in favour of the man…

The series win against Bangladesh brightened India’s hope for a back-to-back WTC final appearance. India’s 2-0 series sweep over Bangladesh in Mirpur on Sunday consolidated their position at the number two spot behind leaders Australia in the ICC World Test Championship standings. The series win brightened India’s hope for a back-to-back WTC final appearance. Chasing 145, India were in real trouble at 74 for 7 but Ravichandran Ashwin (42 not out ) and Shreyas Iyer (29 not out) held fort and stitched unbeaten 71 runs for the eighth-wicket to pull off a three-wicket win on the fourth day of the second and final Test.…

India is set to begin random testing of 2 per cent of international passengers at airports from Saturday in what has been one of the several preparatory steps with many parts of the world, including China, witnessing a resurgence in spread of coronavirus. Three years after the first Covid cases were reported from China’s Wuhan city, the country is again tackling what has been labeled by some as the world’s worst outbreak. In the first 20 days of December, nearly 18 per cent of the population – or about 248 million people – may have contracted the virus, a report by Bloomberg has…