By Dr. Gyan Pathak Bias is all pervading making moving ahead for Indian women too difficult. Gender gap is too wide that they are unable to bridge on their own, and the bias against them is too great to overcome. Indian women have been braving all the odds in their paths even before the pandemic […]
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By Anjan Roy Years from now, when the present will become history, generations will wonder how the world could have survived, if so lucky, with such hyper nationalists like Putin in power. Russia’s Ukraine war is no longer a limited affair now. The distant thunder from the fringes of Eastern Europe is reverberating across the […]
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By Nitya Chakraborty The maverick film director of Bengal Mrinal Sen, the second most important member of the famous troika in the cinema world that included Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, will step into his 100th year on May 14, 2023. Significantly, Ray was born just two years before in 1921, on May 2, the […]
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Technology for Change Week Asia: Applying technology for the social good takes place this week online and in-person, March 8th – 11th 2022. HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 7 March 2022 – More than 2,000 attendees have already registered for Economist Impact’s Technology for Change Week Asia, a dynamic virtual week exploring how technology-based and data-driven solutions can be applied to long-standing social challenges, and […]
A barrage of Russian missiles destroyed the airport in Vinnytsia in central Ukraine on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. ‼️ Urgent appeal by President @ZelenskyyUa: a missile strike on #Vinnytsia consisted of eight missiles; the airport is completely destroyed. The President called on the world to close the skies over #Ukraine and provide Ukraine […]
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By Harihar Swarup In the Uttar Pradesh’s assembly elections, the overriding perception is that Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is the man most likely to benefit from electoral tide. Akhilesh Yadav is the complete antithesis of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. This is most marked in the language he uses in election campaign. Akhilesh does not […]
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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Will the mega road show of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi spin the magic for BJP in the holy city and other constituencies in seventh and last phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh on March 7? During 2017 assembly polls, riding on Modi wave BJP and allies had won all […]
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By Matein Khalid If Checkpoint Charlie in West Berlin was the epicentre of the Cold War between NATO and the Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact satellite states, Ukraine is the crucible of the geopolitical confrontation between the West and Putin’s Russia. Putin weaponized Gazprom’s gas exports to Ukraine as far back as 2006, fomented secessionist militias […]
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Russia has announced a temporary ceasefire to allow citizens to leave embattled zones of Mariupol and Volnovakha. The temporary ceasefire began at 07:00 GMT and has been confirmed by Ukrainian authorities. The temporary ceasefire and humanitarian corridors was announced by the Russian defence ministry, which said it had been agreed with the Ukrainian side. Mariupol […]
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James M Dorsey Two diametrically opposed visions of moderate Islam have emerged as major Muslim powers battle to define the soul of their faith in the 21st century in a struggle that is as much about geopolitics as it is about autocratic survival and visualisations of a future civilisation and world order. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Yahya Cholil Staquf, the newly elected chairman of […]
By Prabhat Patnaik The security concerns of Russia arising from Ukraine’s intentions of joining NATO have been widely discussed in the media. But the IMF’s link with Ukraine which is a parallel issue has scarcely received much attention. The IMF, as is well-known, “opens up” economies around the world for the penetration of metropolitan capital […]
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By Rahil Nora Chopra Amid a lot of buzz for the coming presidential elections, names of political veterans such as Sharad Pawar, BSP Supremo Mayawati and a few others have been doing the rounds and discussed as possible candidates for the post. Speculations have been rife of late with Bihar chief minister and long-time BJP […]
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Matein Khalid A paranoid autocrat is never a rational decision maker and has historically sent untold millions of humans to their deaths for nothing. So Adolf Hitler ranted and raved in his Berlin Führerbunker even though it was obvious that Nazi Germany had lost the war by late 1944. Stalin cynically starved millions of people in Ukraine and Mao’s Great Leap Forward cost 50 million lives in […]
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach – 3 March 2022 – In support of its Group’s ambition to be a net zero carbon organization by 2030, Lotus’s Stores (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (“Lotus’s Malaysia”) had on 3 March 2022 entered into its second Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Asia’s renowned premium carbon neutral and financing solutions company, NEFIN Group (“NEFIN”). The Lotus’s-NEFIN PPA will run for 20 years […]
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – Media OutReach – 4 March 2022 – Over the last few years, public and private sector organisations alike have had to adapt to the explosion of new technologies – such as AI, Cloud Computing, Blockchain, 5G, and underpinning it all, IoT. This global disruptor requires far more than simply the infrastructure to support it – to be used effectively, IoT will also likely […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi “emphasised the need to return to a path of dialogue and diplomacy” for a way forward in the Ukraine crisis at a virtual meeting of the Quad leaders today, a statement from his office said. In his remarks, PM Modi also reiterated the importance of adhering to the UN Charter, international […]
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By Anjan Roy I never tire of recalling what Joseph Schumpeter, one of the greatest economists and scholars, wrote in his monumental tome: The nearer we are to an epoch the less we understand. Our own we understand the least. It is too early to make an assessment of Russia’s Ukraine war and its implications […]
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By K R Sudhaman The killing of an Indian Student Naveen Shekharappa in a Russian shelling in Kharkiv in Ukraine recently is a wake-up call to the country’s rampant and unending caste-based and communal-based politics that is ruining the educational system. It is time for the nation as a whole to have a relook at […]
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The Indian government today denied reports of Indian students being held as “hostages” in Ukraine, stating that it was in constant touch with Indian nationals in the war-torn country. “We have not received reports of any hostage situation regarding any student. We have requested support of the Ukrainian authorities in arranging special trains for taking […]
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James M Dorsey Emiratis celebrated their decision not to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the United Nations Security Council as the end of an era in which the Gulf state took its foreign policy cues from the United States. However, the Emiratis may be celebrating prematurely. As the UAE took over from Russia this month as chairman of the Council, Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a political scientist […]
STUTTGART, GERMANY – Media OutReach – 3 March 2022 – AnyDesk, a leading provider of remote desktop solutions, launched its new global channel partner program today to strengthen and expand its worldwide partner network. The program is specifically designed to meet the needs of partners and has been developed in close consultation with distributors, value-added resellers, system integrators, managed service providers and general companies that work with […]
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A week after launching its invasion of Ukraine, Russia said its forces took control the first sizable city today, seizing Kherson, in the south, as fighting raged around the country and Western nations tightened an economic noose around Russia. Russian military claims to have taken control of Ukraine’s Kherson. “The Russian divisions of the armed […]
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By K Raveendran Making one of the worst fears come true, Brent crude, the benchmark oil price, has hit an intimidating $110 a barrel as the Russian invasion of Ukraine is showing no signs of a possible resolution. This is the highest price for oil in more than seven years, which by itself should send […]
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