Media freedom advocates like the Committee to Protect Journalists expressed alarm over the proposal and urged the government to reconsider the move. [...] The increased growth is based on the commissioning of the mega hydropower projects and increased government spending in the 13th Plan. [...] Modi called for the two countries to ‘urgently address the prolonged situation’ on the Indo-China border to put behind the ‘abnormality in bilateral interactions.’ The Maldives The Maldives’ parliamentary election (majlis) resulted in a massive victory for the incumbent President, Mohamed Muizzu. [...] It gives the PNC and Muizzu the supermajority in the parliament, giving them total control over all aspects of policymaking, including the ability to reshape the judiciary theoretically. [...] Similarly, the government of Sri Lanka has approved the amendment to the Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code for the banning of all corporal or physical punishments in all sectors.
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