By Girish Linganna India’s recent actions in Sri Lanka are seen as a part of its strategy to increase its influence and presence in South Asia. India aims to establish itself as the dominant player in the region. However, experts warn that the differing power dynamics between...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The World is observing August as the month of SDG8, one of the 17 goals that were agreed upon by the global community in 2015 to improve the lives of all people by 2030 and to protect the planet we live in. Unfortunately, the...
By James M Dorsey In the latest incident, Saudi Arabia detained five relatives of a US resident whose family in 2020 filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania against the Saudi government in a long-standing commercial dispute involving an oil refinery on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia, according...
By Matthew Hunter News of a military coup in the West African country of Niger has reignited condemnations of the colonial West, and marks at least the 10th coup in the Sahel region since 2008: Burkina Faso (2014, 2015, 2022), Mali (2012, 2020, 2021), Mauritania (2008), Gambia...
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has stayed Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in the Modi defamation case and restored his Lok Sabha membership. The apex court also questioned the wisdom of the trial judge and the higher court in awarding the maximum punishment in the alleged offence, which made...
By Arun Srivastava For andha bhakts (blind disciples) of Narendra Modi, Supreme Court staying the conviction of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a 2019 defamation case over his Modi surname remark and restoring his status as an MP must have come as a rude shock to the...
By Anjan Roy Morgan Stanley, a widely respected global investment bank, has upgraded India’s rating. This essentially means the bank now is now arguing it is worthwhile investing in India on the basis of the macro-economic data on the performance of the Indian economy. At the same time,...
By D Raja More than seven decades back, Dr Ambedkar had warned that “on the 26th of January, 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality and in social and economic life we will have inequality.” In our times...
By Prabhat Patnaik Many economists have been advocating a universal basic income for India, an idea that was mooted even in the official Economic Survey for 2016-17. Of course the practical proposals towards this end have varied, some suggesting a common universal transfer to all persons below a...
By Gyan Pathak Communal Violence between religious groups has almost nothing to do with religion, but to politics. This is true even with incidents of communal violence between the Majority Hindu community and the minority communities especially Muslims and Christians in India. As we are approaching closer to...