The World Bank says, in 2022, the world faced uncertainty, and in 2023, the focus shifted to inequality. The challenges of recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic are compounded by climate change, conflict, food insecurity, and other threats, particularly affecting...
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The time has come to treat the sequence of UN Climate Change Conferences, the latest concluding in Dubai, as a series of the failed and the abysmally rotten. It shows how...
IN 1948, the Lebanese historian Constantin Zurayak used the Arabic word Nakba (catastrophe) to refer to the forced removal of Palestinians from their lands and homes by the newly formed Israeli state (in his August 1948 book, Ma’na al-Nakba...
NEO-LIBERALISM propagates a set of outright falsehoods to present itself in a favourable light compared to the preceding dirigiste regime in India. The basic theme is to suggest that under neo-liberalism there has been such an acceleration of the...
Any homo academicus or academic human comes to contact with knowledge systems concomitant with power systems - political, economic, social, cultural, scientific and technological. A recent congressional committee in the United States had intered Presidents of Ivy League universities...
A recent wave of violence on both sides of Israel and Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip resulted in more than 17000 deaths of Palestinians and 1200 Israelis. The world witnessed a pleasant moment when a seven-day truce released hostages and prisoners...
By John P. Ruehl
Weather manipulation is increasingly common around the world, but the dangers of privatization and weaponization abound.
As winter settles over New Delhi, cold air sinks, trapping pollution in the city. Smoke from seasonal fires stemming from farming...
Politics around the world suggests two major features: nations either adopt autocratic methods or engage in democratic practices. The foundations of politics start with human nature and the state of nature. Human nature encompasses both positive and negative aspects....
A Nature article says: Argentina appears to be on the cusp of a new era following yesterday's second-round election, with Javier Milei, the libertarian candidate, securing the presidency with an impressive 56% of the votes. Since the establishment of...
Bloomberg
Javier Milei’s victory in Argentina’s presidential election opens a new and uncertain chapter in South American nation’s convoluted history.
While Milei has been careful in his first words as president-elect, appearing moderate and extending an olive branch to whomever...
