| Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of Malaysia and President of the Malaysian Indian Congress calls on the Prime Minister |
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi received Datuk Seri G. Palanivel, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of Malaysia and the President of the Malaysian Indian Congress. Prime Minister lauded the over 2 million strong Indian community in Malaysia for enriching the fabric of Malaysia's pluralist society and for contributing to Malaysia's economic development. Prime Minister highlighted the importance of close cooperation between India and Malaysia as well as other ASEAN countries in advancing collective regional action for peace, stability and prosperity in the region. Prime Minister also expressed his desire for enhancing trade, investment, tourism, educational and cultural ties between the two countries. Minister Palanivel sought enhanced cooperation in the areas of conservation of forests, wildlife protection, climate change technology and promotion of people to people contacts. Minister Palanivel, on behalf of the Prime Minister of Malaysia, extended invitation to the Prime Minister to visit Malaysia. Prime Minister Modi agreed to visit Malaysia at a mutually convenient time. |
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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