By Dr Arun Mitra The COVID-19 Pandemic has brought to the fore necessity to bring about changes in the international agreements on drugs/vaccines keeping the public health priorities uppermost. Latest data points out that 66.2% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine while this number in low income […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unprecedented unemployment crisis in independent India that has been building up with sharpest ever hike in joblessness since 2014 has finally exploded on June 14, 2022, when the Centre announced Agnipath (literally the Path of Fire) scheme for short term recruitment in armed forces. The Fire triggered eruption, unemployed youths suddenly […]
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SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 20 June 2022 – With an USD 80M capital injection in May 2022, when crypto markets are bearish, confidence in Babel Finance by many of the world’s leading investment institutions and investors shows that there is a future in crypto. Del Wang, the Co-Founder and CEO of Babel Finance, is confident in the growth of cryptocurrency, and the increasing mainstream adoption of […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak In the largest global review by WHO so far, nearly one in eight people have been found suffering with mental disorders while this ratio is one in seven for teenagers. The common conditions, such as depression and anxiety have even gone up by over 25 per cent during the first year […]
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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 17 June 2022 – Babel Finance, announced late last month that it had secured $80 million in a fresh investment round, valuing the crypto lender and asset manager at $2 billion. Jeneration Capital, Circle Ventures, and 10T Holdings joined current investors Dragonfly Capital and BAI Capital in the Series B investment round. A number of family offices from the Asia-Pacific […]
By Prabhat Patnaik The craftiness of imperialism is boundless. In several countries of the world at present there are neo-fascist governments, propped up by their respective big bourgeoisie (all aligned to globalized capital), and implementing neo-liberal policies with their characteristic ruthlessness; in many other countries, there are neo-fascist outfits attempting to get into power by […]
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By Sushil Kutty Sri Lanka has a social media. And these days Modi is trending. For Sri Lankans, Indian bigwigs trending in their social media is welcome diversion from the island nation’s woes. At least Modi is not Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s President who is still at the centre of storm after the resignation of […]
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A Lankan official has resigned after triggering a massive controversy with his claim that an energy project in Sri Lanka was awarded to industrialist Gautam Adani’s group after Prime Minister Narendra Modi pressured President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. MMC Ferdinando, the chairman of Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), quit three days after he claimed to a […]
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By James M Dorsey Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al-Baqr, a man known for his pithy retorts, pretended to quiver in his pants. Hindu nationalists had called for a boycott of the Gulf airline after Qatar took India to task for derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammed and Muslim worship by two spokespeople of the country’s […]
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By Tiara Sahar Ataii One Saturday morning in November 2020, Dimitris Choulis, a human rights lawyer native to the Greek island of Samos, woke to a message informing him that twenty-four asylum seekers had landed on the beach. Worried they would be forced back to Turkey by the Greek authorities, Dimitris rushed to the mountains […]
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Pakistan Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said on Friday the government would raise taxes on the rich and ban government officials from buying new cars, amid pressure to control the fiscal deficit and secure International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout money. The nation of 220 million people is facing a balance of payments crisis, with foreign reserves […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Surging food costs in South Asia, a region populated by more than one-third of the global poor and where one-fifth of calories come from wheat products, pose significant challenges to poverty alleviation and food security. The World Bank’s projection of downside risks to the economic outlook of the region presents even […]
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By Binoy Viswam Religious extremism is never far from religious fundamentalism. For the question that has hardly any explanation today the distance is practically nil. From religious extremism to the point of communal hatred, there is no distance to traverse. Thoughts of racial pride in its rude and primitive manner plays the guiding role behind […]
The post Sangh Parivar Has To Do Away With Ideology Of Destructive Hatred first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Branko Marcetic Allow me, for a moment, to indulge my inner Tom Friedman. A few weeks back, I was exchanging the usual banter with a taxi driver, Amandeep, an Indian immigrant who had lived in New York nearly two decades, when the conversation turned to politics. After telling me about the racist and sexist […]
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By K Raveendran The Narendra Modi government might in all probability be able to bring the friendly Arab governments round to softening their initial response to what they consider to be the most sacrilegious remark by BJP leaders against Prophet Mohammed. The government has already intensified the firefighting, with special efforts being made to explain […]
The post Narendra Modi Govt’s Image Has Got A Big Jolt In Gulf Nations In Last Few Days first appeared on IPA Newspack.
By Sankar Ray The monolithic dictatorship of the Taliban shows cracks as the compulsion for compromises on certain issues looms large. There is bitter opposition within the top leadership. It was apparent months ago when the Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, publicly pulled up the Taliban high command for banning girls from […]
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A Kuwaiti supermarket pulled Indian products from its shelves even as Iran became the latest Middle Eastern country to summon the Indian ambassador as a row grew on Monday over a BJP official’s remarks about the Prophet Mohammed. Workers at the Al-Ardiya Co-Operative Society store piled Indian tea and other products into trolleys in a […]
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By Sushil Kutty Finally, much to the delight of millions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not the Invincible! Little Qatar in the Gulf brought the Modi Government to its knees even as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Iran weighed in. Modi’s ‘Arabian Nights’ stands curtailed because Modi is no Xi Jinping. Also, the BJP’s ‘Naya […]
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SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 3 June 2022 – NTUC LearningHub (NTUC LHUB), Singapore’s leading Continuing Education and Training provider, announced today that former labour chief Mr Lim Swee Say will assume the role of Chairman to lead NTUC LHUB’s ongoing initiatives in upskilling and uplifting the Singapore workforce. Mr Lim will succeed Mr Eugene Wong, whose role as the previous Chairman had been pivotal in NTUC […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak World is not yet on track to achieve the clean energy access for all by 2030, and at the current rate of progress, 670 million people will remain without electricity by 2030 – 10 million more than projected last year. Currently, 733 million people worldwide still do not have access to […]
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By Dr Arun Mitra I very vividly remember when 30 years back in the year 1992 we wanted to hold a public function as a part of campaign for the promotion of healthy environment and preservation of ecology, not many people took it seriously. However we carried out with our activities and soon our actions […]
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By Satyaki Chakraborty The left wing candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula, is firmly on his path to big victory in the coming presidential elections in Brazil scheduled for October 2 this year. A recent opinion survey run by Instituto FSB found that in the first round Lula will be getting […]
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By James M Dorsey For now, Ukraine is the far from my bed show for most Middle Eastern nations. The question is not if but when Ukraine will arrive on their doorstep. Two centrifugal forces threaten to push Middle Eastern nations off the tightrope: an increasingly bifurcated world populated by a multitude of civilisationalist leaders […]
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You may have heard reference to the oldest index dating back to 1896, which tracks the value of the thirty largest US stocks and gives traders access to a wide part of the market. Below, we discuss in detail the Dow Jones Index and its Year-to-date (YTD) performance. Fundamentals of the Dow The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) has long been a favorite index with traders and […]
