A happy news for India, home to a vast population (1.4 billion) and numerous young minds, holds a critical role in Agenda 2030. Its primary development goal is eradicating poverty in all forms and ensuring inclusivity for every individual....
As India’s population of 1.4 billion people becomes the world’s largest, its GDP is forecast to expand dramatically. Goldman Sachs Research projects India will have the world’s second-largest economy by 2075.
For India, a key to realizing the potential of...
The 2022 Multidimensional Poverty Index Report "Unpacking deprivation bundles to reduce multidimensional poverty" finds that reducing poverty at scale is possible and unveils new 'poverty profiles' that can offer a breakthrough in development efforts to tackle the interlinked aspects of poverty.
The...
Photograph Source: Petty Officer 3rd Class Christopher Mobley, U.S. Navy – Public Domain
Following months of debate, the Biden administration has decided to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions, weapons that more than 120 countries have pledged not to use because...
Photograph Source: DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison – Public Domain
Since the end of the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has distinctly strayed from its original purpose. It has become, almost shamelessly, the...
A recent 27-year, four million-tonne liquified natural gas (LNG) Qatari export agreement with China, the longest in gas export history, highlights different Gulf state approaches to navigating big power rivalry between the People’s Republic and the United States.
Widely seen...
After two consecutive quarterly declines, global trade in goods and services rebounded in January-March 2023. However, the outlook for the rest of the year is grim. The latest Global Trade Update from UNCTAD reveals positive trade growth for goods...
By KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD
June 25 is the 92nd birth anniversary of the almost forgotten Mandal Messiah
On June 25, a celebration meeting of V. P. Singh’s 92 birth anniversary meeting has been planned by several pro-social justice organisations at the...
Image credit Francisco Anzola via Flickr CC BY 2.0.
Nelson Mandela is deified everywhere. But typically missing is an account of his early years, when he insisted that Marxism be responsive to South African conditions.
In the extensive mythologizing of Nelson...
It's said Emperor Nero played the fiddle while Rome was burning. Historians have pointed out that the story is baseless. The fiddle was not there in Rome during Nero's time, and his favourite instrument was the lyre. When the...
