2025

The Gulf states are transitioning to post-oil economies diversifying their oil wealth to manufacturing, tourism and technology sectors with their increasing nascent interest in investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is quite natural that these states seek a stable and peaceful Middle East so that they can attract investors and tourists. However, these states with none of their own mistakes have been wading through instabilities and fallouts of wars as Israel is seeking to redraw the (…)

In recent years in the course of several interviews I conducted in the slums, resettlement colonies and labor chowks (places where daily wage workers gather every morning to seek employment) of Delhi, I was distressed from hearing increasing complaints that the welfare benefits secured after campaigning for several years for helpful laws were being denied on a large scale to construction workers. While several construction workers, including women, never received these benefits, what was (…)

In wake of United States

On the coming 15th of August, even after 78 years of our independence, 28% of the population has to go from one place to another for employment to earn their livelihood. However, the current Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi repeatedly said in his election campaign that if I make you the Prime Minister, I will give employment to two crore unemployed people every year.
This means that in the eleven years of his becoming the Prime Minister, 22 crore unemployed people should have been given (…)

August 4, 2025
Indian refiners are at high risk due to US penalty threats and the EU’s new sanctions on exports made from Russian crude.
The US has threatened to impose an unspecified penalty in addition to 25 percent punitive tariffs [1] on India for its imports of Russian oil. To avoid these sanctions without harming India

The long-awaited verdict on the Malegaon blast of 2008 was delivered by a special court in Mumbai. The judgement has acquitted all seven accused in the Malegaon blasts case, which came as a blow to the victims and celebrations to the Hindutva camp. Many were anticipating this type of verdict and it was no surprise to them as during the period of last 17 years the investigating agencies did change the track, particularly after 2014. The blast was carried by a group which used a motorcycle. (…)

Abstract
The US Senate is likely to take up, next month, for detailed discussion a bill, which has the mandate of imposing

Abstract: The National Cooperative Policy 2025 marks a bold attempt to reposition cooperatives as central actors in India

In India and many other nations, there is a growing concern about the rise of fascist tendencies. Unlike the fascism of the 20th century, today

A report by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)