2025

Backdrop:
Corruption in India remains a deeply entrenched and multidimensional problem that continues to undermine democratic governance, economic efficiency, and social justice. Defined broadly as the misuse of public power for private gain, corruption manifests in administrative inefficiency, political patronage, and a culture of impunity that spans from local bureaucracies to the highest levels of power. Despite a long-standing legal and institutional framework, including the Prevention (…)

Francesca Orsini, a renowned scholar of Hindi and South Asian literature and professor emerita at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, was deported from Delhi airport on October 20, 2025, for her alleged violation of visa conditions. The PTI reported that a source in the Ministry of Home Affairs stated that Orsini has been on a

Trump speaking in the press conference with Modi told

Only a capitalist haven like the United States can quibble over what kind of a socialist you are.
No wonder Zohran Mamdani is suddenly finding critics even among known admirers after the democratic socialist quoted the late dyed-in-the-wool socialist Eugene V. Debs after winning the high-octane New York mayoral election.
Debs (1855-1926), a socialist, trade unionist and activist, was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World and a five-time candidate of the Socialist (…)

As the dust of the recently concluded mayoral election settles in New York

Abstract
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt, highlights the institutional, cultural, and competitive foundations of innovation-driven economic growth. By extending Joseph Schumpeter

With the shutdown entering its sixth week, and with no visible end in sight, science is seriously disrupted in USA. The government shutdown will continue until Congress can pass a bill reopening it. U.S. science always suffers during government shutdowns. Funding lapses send government scientists home with no pay. Many experiments in labs are halted as Federal agencies suspend ongoing research, new grant proposals, review panels on hold, and stop collecting and analysing public (…)

US President Donald Trump, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in tow, announced from the White House on September 29 a ceasefire of the Israeli war on the Palestinians in Gaza just a week before the completion of two years of Zionist genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, beginning October 8, 2023.
But has Israel really stopped bombing Gaza and killing Palestinians, even for a day, since that so-called ceasefire? Earlier this week, in a major assault on Gaza, it killed 104 (…)

Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) India
[November 4, 2025]
The spectre of a nuclear Armageddon has become a constant companion of humanity since the huge criminal massacre in the closing days of WWII in August 1945 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After a relative pause with the end of the Cold War, this has again started looking more and more real and immediate. The Doomsday Clock