2025

* Can a Cooperative of India’s Taxi Drivers pose a challenge to Uber & such
* These Nurses Contribute a Lot to the Health of Remote Villages | Bharat Dogra
* Categorising Speech & the Crisis of Democratic Discourse in India? | Ayush Mazumdar
* Letter from Indian CSOs Challenging ADB

What message from the wrecking ball in Nepal
Nepal made big news in the past week with a very violent uprising, which led to a dramatic overthrow of its Government in less than 48 hours. Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli who was supposed to travel to India this week, had to literally flee, like most of his colleagues. On September 3, the Left wing government in Nepal banned Facebook, YouTube, Twitter under a directive requiring regulation of social media seeking to control fake news, (…)

Nepal faced a significant political and social crisis in September 2025 after the government unexpectedly restricted access to major social media platforms. Youth-driven mass protests often referred to as the

After the unprecedented protest and unrest in Nepal against host of problems including endemic corruption attributed to political leaders of all hues and officialdom President Ram Chandra Poudel administered oath of office to the 73-year-old former Chief Justice, Sushila Karki, to assume office as the interim Prime Minister, making her the first woman to lead the country. Karki agreed to take that responsibility on the condition that she would be free to investigate corruption at high (…)

Nepal

The health challenges of remote villages are often discussed in the context of the availability of doctors. What is often ignored

August 12, 2025
Backed by cooperatives, Bharat taxi aims to be a ride-hailing platform where drivers are not just service providers but also co-owners of the business.
A new taxi service [1], backed by eight cooperatives, is set to change the way Indians book their rides.
The service, registered as the Multi-State Sahakari Taxi Cooperative Ltd, is backed by the National Cooperative Development Corporation as well as seven other leading Indian cooperative institutions: Amul, NDDB, (…)

The Zionist state of Israel bombed on September 9 Doha the capital of the Gulf island state of Qatar, a most trusted and dependable ally of the United States of America (USA) which also hosts a US air base at Ai Udeid to monitor and prevent any misadventure against US

My letter to the UN on the need to act on the Israeli attacks on the UN system, using the relevant Rules of the UN GA Rules of Procedure, to circumvent the UN SC veto.
Faizi
Forwarded message ---------
From: Faizi S <s.faizi111[at]gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 11:31?AM
Subject: On the need to address the Israeli attacks on the UN system
To: opga[at]un.org
Cc: sg[at]un.org, secretariat[at]g77.org
President
United Nations General Assembly
New York
Copy: (…)

Ram Puniyani
RSS which was formed in 1925 is completing its hundred years on 2nd October 2025. Its politics has been Hindutva and it aims at Hindu Nation. Its pledge, an oath taken by its volunteers, commits them to remain loyal to Hindu nation. It set up shakhas at a rapid pace, shakha (branch) is the basic unit of RSS. In this shakha earlier young boys, and now people of all ages play Indian games like Kaddadi, Kho-Kho etc. They are given ideological training, which is called shakha (…)