New Delhi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has achieved it again.
'Morning Consult Political Intelligence', a US-based data intelligence company, has reported that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s approval rating is the highest among world leaders.
According to the list of 11 world leaders surveyed by Morning Consult, the Indian Prime Minister has the highest approval rating of 71 percent.
In the list also appears the names of global leaders such as President Joe Biden and Andres Manuel Lopez
Obrador, the President of Mexico,
A distant second in approval ratings was the President of Mexico. He has an approval rating of 66 percent.
Third in that list was Mario Draghi, the Prime Minister of Italy, with an approval rating of 60 percent.
Biden had a modest approval rating of only 43 percent comparatively.
According to the graph, Mr Modi’s approval rating was at its lowest in June 2020 at 63 percent.
“The latest approval rating is based on data collected from January 13 to 19, 2022. Approval ratings are
based on a seven-day moving average or adult residents in each country, with sample sizes varying”
by the demographic,” Morning Consult Political Intelligence says.
This is not the first time PM Modi was voted the most popular leader at the global stage.
In May 2020 also he had topped the list with a staggeringly high 84 percent popularity.
However, in May 2021, the approval rating dipped somewhat but in September 2021, PM Modi was again ranked
the most approved global leader.
According to Morning Consult, they conduct more than 11,000 daily interviews globally about leadership
approval. They also daily interview 4,000 registered voters in the US for the approval rating of
the US president.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is at the bottom with 26 per cent, the survey revealed.
Other leaders in the list are Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil President), Fumio Kishida (Japan Prime Minister),
Emmanuel Macron (France President); Moon Jae-in (South Korean President), Scott Morrison (Australian Prime
Minister); Pedro Sanchez (Spain PM); Olaf Scholz (German Chancellor) and Justin Trudeau (Canada PM).
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Seven people linked to 'human smuggling' detained by US officials
New Delhi
(Post-mortem of four people who died is likely to be carried out on Jan 24.
The Consulate General as well as the High Commission in Ottawa are in touch with
Canadian provincial and federal authorities for ascertaining details of this tragedy).
The US authorities have detained seven people without 'proper documentation'
for allegedly being involved in human smuggling activity from Canada to the US, sources said
here.
Among them one is a US citizen and one person was 'still hospitalized' due to cold-related injuries.
One more person had been hospitalized earlier.
The Indian government has sought consular access to the detained persons.
Sources said, "Consulate General of India in Toronto immediately sent a consular team to Manitoba, which is
now liaising with local authorities to render any consular help regarding the four dead people".
The Consulate General as well as the High Commission in Ottawa are also in touch with
Canadian provincial and federal authorities for ascertaining details of this tragedy.
"On the US side, the Consulate General of India in Chicago has urgently sent a consular team to Minneapolis,
which is now coordinating and rendering consular assistance. They have sought consular access to the detained
persons," the source said.
Bodies of four people, believed to be an Indian family including a baby and a teen, were found in Canada
near the US border. The ill-fated people were frozen to death.
Officials in the US and Canada believe the deaths are linked to a larger human smuggling operation.
Sources said on January 19, US authorities in Minnesota State, near the US – Canada border,
came across a group of people who were apparently without proper documentation.
Based on information obtained from them, Canadian authorities launched a search and found four bodies in
Manitoba province on the Canadian side of the border.
"The people without proper documentation on the US side, as well as the dead people on the Canadian side,
appear to be Indian nationals," the source said.
However, further efforts are underway to identify them and confirm their nationalities.
Post-mortem of the victims is likely to be carried out on January 24, sources said.
The Consulate and the Embassy in Washington D.C. are also in touch with the US
Department of Justice, and the US Customs and Border Police.
Indian Missions and Posts will continue to extend all assistance, the sources added.
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