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By Ajit Ranade |
Germany is the current chair of the group of seven richest nations called G7. This group is meeting in the Bavarian…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretariat, “condemned and de-nounced” statements made by two…
By Ganesh N Devy |
Like Janus, the RSS and the BJP have two faces, one face has marks of the actions of the past on it. Some of these…
By Jagdish Rattanani, T Jacob John |
India’s ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) as well as the Indian media appear to be pleased that the nation’…
By Ishan Chauhan |
Large sections of the Indian subcontinent starting from Balochistan and Sindh in Pakistan all the way to Odisha and…
By Lekha Rattanani |
It was only last week that the US State department added the option of a gender ‘X’ on its passport forms, giving…
By Vandana Shiva |
The theme of the 2022 Mother Earth Day, which is on Friday, April 22, is “invest in our planet”. The original meaning…
By Vandana Shiva |
Sri Lanka is facing a severe political and economic crisis. The crisis has multiple roots but has intensified in the…
By Pavitra Mohan |
India ushers in World Tuberculosis day in 2022 on 24 March with mixed feelings. As the COVID pandemic (hopefully) wanes…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
A deputy commissioner of police in Mumbai has gone missing and has now moved the courts for anticipatory bail after…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
One message of the BJP’s 4-1 victory in the Assembly polls is that it can turn around a poor performance and anti-…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
If credibility is to come to corporate governance, the pool of directors must be widened to include people from a…
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March 10, 2022 would be an important day for all concerned when the results of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
As the pandemic recedes, some memories will not. One of the more terrible outcomes of Covid-19 was the isolation of…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The “row” in Karnataka over wearing the hijab or head scarf by some Muslim girl students which began at a college in…