

The Supreme Court heard arguments on college admissions policies, and the conservative majority seemed skeptical of affirmative action. His business decisions could help determine whether India helps the world avert a climate catastrophe. The volatility may reflect investors’ unease about Xi Jinping’s tightening grip on power as China’s leader. More than 100 of the dead were in their 20s.Ĭhina launched the third and final module of its Tiangong space station.Ĭhinese stocks whipsawed yesterday. A politician in the opposition called it a “man-made disaster.” The authorities also underestimated the size of the crowd, which swelled to 130,000. For comparison, the police dispatched 1,300 officers for a BTS performance last month in Busan, which drew 55,000. Only 137 police officers were in the area in Seoul where more than 150 people died in a Halloween crowd crush. An opposition leader said that leaders of his party - which has governed the state for more than two decades - announced the bridge’s opening as a “Diwali gift” to the people of the town without ensuring its safety. Politics: Gujarat is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state. The company running the bridge blamed the victims, but it is unclear why it allowed so many on the bridge at once. The bridge had been opened without a “fitness certificate” or the authorities’ permission, an official told local news media. Now, India is asking why its infrastructure has failed so calamitously once again.

The Role of the Police: Their early inaction in the riot shows how security forces can help empower violence and deepen the threat to democracy.Īfter people grabbed the netting to make the bridge shimmy, as countless others had done before them, the cables suddenly snapped, spilling people into the river.

But do his aggressive tactics go too far to fight the far right?
