Scary! The way the Nation is slipping down the slopes with no holds or hurdles to stop the steep and fast slide, it is time someone took charge, not just politically and economically, but socially, too. There is none...
Films from the Global
South (such as that of Latin America, Asia and Africa) seldom receive the kind
of acceptance the Anglo-American English movies get across the world. The international
film festivals may be an exception where the ‘best’ from such countries...
Lima (ILO News) – The International Labour Organization (ILO) announced
that it will launch a series of urgent interventions aimed at responding
to the challenge of the socio-economic integration of Venezuelans
arriving in other countries of Latin America.
According to...
The European Union has committed 20 million Euros to promote social cohesion and reconciliation in Iraq through the restoration and reconstruction of historic urban landscapes within the framework of the Revive the Spirit of Mosul flagship initiative launched by...
Prabhat Patnaik explains the paradoxical emergence of excess supply of foodgrains in the neoliberal era despite lower foodgrain growth and higher GDP growth. This ...
South Asia is one of the least economically integrated regions in the world, despite its recent burgeoning growth in terms of human capital and commercial engagements. An inter-regional and intra regional integration or cooperation is an essential for achieving...
SM Mohammed Idris, doyen of the consumer movement in the Global South and a prominent social and environmental activist in Malaysia, passed away at the age of 93 years. SM Mohamed Idris was the Chairperson of Citizens International, Chairperson...
President Maithripala Sirisena may go down the history of world democracy as a leader who had no hesitation to acknowledge his own constitutional wrongs and seek correctives! If someone thought it’s about the twin crises...
A
couple of days after former President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared that
his SLPP would field a ‘patriot who can defend the country and the
people’, his brother and party organiser Basil R came up with the name.
Of course,...
K.M. Seethi
For many in the South Block (and several diplomats who served in the West Asia/Gulf region in the past), India’s emergence as ‘Guest of Honour’ at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting of Foreign Ministers, scheduled to...
