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India rejects UN panel’s observations on its ‘rights violations’

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Canadians Rally Behind Homegrown Products as US-Canada Trade Tensions Escalate

A growing wave of economic nationalism is sweeping Canada amid an intensifying trade dispute with the United States. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is actively encouraging citizens to avoid purchasing American goods. The movement reflects broader public sentiment in response to tariff threats from the US. Canadians are increasingly choosing domestic products over American alternatives as a form of protest and patriotic expression.

Congress urges PM to scrap current caste census questionnaire, seek fresh methodology

The Congress party has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing disapproval of the methodology being used for the caste enumeration in the upcoming Census. The party described the current approach as misleading and called for the existing questionnaire to be cancelled. Congress urged the government to develop a revised questionnaire through broader consultations involving political parties, domain experts, and members of the public. The party stressed that any caste census must be precise, relevant, and genuinely beneficial to all communities.