Prime Minister Modi, in his address to UN Climate action summit asked all the countries" to walk the talk" on climate change control measures.
PM Modi also announced that India will enhance its renewable energy capacity from 175 GW to 450 GW by 2022 to meet its NDC(Nationally Determined Contribution)
India despite being third largest polluter in absolute terms, is still not a major polluter on per capita emission standards as well as on historic emissions thanks to environment friendly behavior of most of its citizens.
Thus India taking strident steps towards renewable and e-Vehicles is a welcome move
But there are some conflicting signals by Indian Government as well,namely policy announcements such opening of 100% FDI in coal plants,future reliance on coal plants etc
Besides the NAPCC(National Action Plan on Climate Change)declared in 2008 is outdated and does not have any legal backing.
There is no funding mechanism to allocate funds for states building climate resilient infrastructures.
Thus it would be prudent on India's part to strongly demonstrate its climate commitment on domestic measures.
US President Donald Trump called off a proposed camp David summit between Afghan government and Taliban and curtailed the peace negotiations .This was seen as response to a Taliban terror attack just days before the summit which claimed US soldier's life.
The peace deal negotiated by Zalmay Khalilzad from the beginning US agreeing to many of Taliban's terms and US stressing little on return
Thus the curtailment of such a bad peace deal is good sign for India on multiple accounts
Firstly Pakistan dreams of expanding its strategic depth in South Asia by influencing Afghan Taliban is doomed.
Secondly an Taliban controlled Afghan government would have meant difficulties for Indian infrastructure projects there.
Also Pakistan's aim to push for Afghan talibans is kashmir valley as its did in 1980s has been stopped for now.
India’s best bet in Afghanistan would be a negotiated withdrawal of
foreign troops from Afghanistan, for this would check the Taliban’s
proclivity to engage in trouble- making outside Afghan territory.
Despite all these ,India must try to outreach to Taliban, as the hard reality shows that Taliban controls half of the afghan territory and are here to stay.
Most of Afghan neighbors(Russia,China) have recognized it and have already recognized it and some have enen started negotiation with Taliban
India on its part must at least try to engage if not recognize Taliban,this may make the Afghan government unhappy. Hence it needs to be carefully calibrated and discreetly executed.
The eleven Judge UK supreme court has
unanimously decided to quash UK prime minister Boris Johnson decision to
prorogue Parliament as they deemed it as "unlawful and void".
The case is significant as it has touched on the powers of all the key institutions of Britain’s unwritten constitution.
To
start with, it defined the powers of Parliament versus those of the
judiciary.
It also determined at what point the jurisdiction of the
legislature ends and that of the executive starts. Finally, it even
touched upon the constitutional role of the Queen.
Boris Johnson's government on its defense argued that the need for a
Queen’s speech to set out new legislation justified prorogation,but it
was almost scoffed at by the judges stating that five days would have
been enough for such a move and there is no need to curtail parliament
for five weeks.
Those who criticized Boris decision to prorogue parliament welcomed the ruling .They claim the judgement enforces their stance, that PM's decision to curtail parliament from discussing brexit is unlawful.
The future of Boris Johnson is unclear as of now ,will he resign with the distinction of being the shortest lived UK prime minister?
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