India
Managing Pakistan’s Bomb: Learning on the job
By Pervez Hoodbhoy, Zia Mian
August 17, 2018
On Saturday, Imran Khan will be sworn in as the next prime minister of Pakistan. His has been...
Unprecedented monsoonal floods kill over 370 in southwest India
By Sathish Simon
20 August 2018
More than 370 people have been killed and some two million displaced by flash flooding and landslides caused by...
Amidst Turkish crisis Indian rupee falls to all-time low
By Deepal Jayasekera
18 August 2018
With the ongoing crisis involving Turkish lira, the Indian rupee fell to an all-time low on Tuesday. The Indian...
Rob Nixon: Gov’t Inaction on Climate Change Is “Slow Violence” That...
August 02, 2018
With unprecedented fires, floods and heat waves sweeping the globe, 2018 is on track to be the fourth-hottest year on record. The...
A long march of the dispossessed to Delhi
June 27, 2018
India’s agrarian crisis has gone beyond the agrarian.
It’s a crisis of society. Maybe even a civilizational crisis, with perhaps the largest body...
US quits Human Rights Council wearing the emperor’s new clothes
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
The US quit the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday (19th June) with rhetoric intended to assert the moral high-ground, slamming the...
Traditional medicine: 50% rise in patients seeking homeopathic treatment
Homeopathy is being promoted as it is not only safe and effective but also due to its high acceptance through high quality surveys of...
What to look for when the leaders of China, Russia, Iran...
China and Russia’s stance on the Iran nuclear deal will be a top issue at the regional security summit in Qingdao
By Kinling Lo
08 June,...
Police in south India accused of mass murder after shooting dead...
Eleven people protesting over pollution from a copper plant have been killed by police in Tamil Nadu in south India
23 May, 2018
Another person has...
Monsanto challenges Indian court’s decision that undermines its GMO cotton monopoly
5 May, 2018
Agro-biotechnology giant Monsanto has appealed Delhi High Court’s ruling which, based on national laws, prevents the world’s largest GMO seed producer from...