3 Things

First, Indian Express' Associate Editor Shubhojit Roy joins host Rahel Philipose to discuss the recently concluded meeting by the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) hosted by India and about the Delhi declaration that came out of the two-day meet.

Second, Indian Express' Nihal Koshie talks about the BCCI's decision to bridge the gender pay gap by paying the same match fee to male and female cricketers. (12:45)

Third, we give an update on a case against a PhD student in Maharashtra who allegedly posted defamatory remarks on Twitter against CM Eknath Shinde and others. (21:48)

The headlines this evening from the Indian Express.

First, Indian Express’ National Editor of Strategic Affairs, Nirupama Subramanian joins host Rahel Philipose to talk about UK’s latest Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the challenges facing him as he takes on the role and what his prime ministership may mean for India.

Second, Indian Express’ Asad Rehman discusses the death of a Dengue patient whose family alleged that he was administered mosambi juice instead of platelets resulting in his death. (12:36)

And in the end, Indian Express’ Abhinaya Harigovind tells us about Delhi’s air quality index after Diwali this year which has seen the lowest pollution level since 2015. (19:57)

The headlines this evening from the Indian Express.

On the 20th of November, the football World Cup will be kicked off at the 60,000-seat Al Bayt stadium in Doha. And while almost everyone will be concentrating on what is one of the biggest sporting events in the world, the stories of thousands of migrant workers who built the stadium and other World Cup related projects will inevitably be overshadowed. What people won’t know is just how many Indian workers died while working for companies linked to the tournament. Because to find that out is nearly impossible.

Indian Express’ Mihir Vasavda undertook an 8-month long investigation to do just that, and eventually managed to track down the families of nine workers who died while doing jobs linked to the World Cup. In this episode, he joins host Shashank Bhargava to talk about what his investigation revealed about the plight of migrant workers in Qatar, their gruelling working conditions, and what their families have to suffer.

The headlines this evening from the Indian Express.

In this episode, Indian Express’ Anand Mohan joins host Utsa Sarmin to go through the story of Bharat Bhushan Kataria and Amit Vashisht- two college mates who met each other years later as neighbours and how their small broils turned into an assassination attempt.

The headlines this evening from the Indian Express.

Earlier this month, the World Bank released its latest report on global poverty. The report stated that because of the Covid-19 led economic crisis, and the Ukraine war there has been an outright reversal in the poverty reduction across the planet. It also highlighted the fact that 80% of the people who became poor in 2020, from across the world, were from India.

And even though this is alarming, it didn’t surprise experts because India has historically struggled with alleviating poverty. When we spoke to Indian Express’ Udit Misra, he told us that there are lessons that India can learn from China in this regard. In this episode, he joins host Shashank Bhargava to talk about these lessons, and how China managed to drastically reduce poverty.

The headlines this evening from the Indian Express.