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In a world on fire, workers get burned
News, Sally Tyler, Published on 13/10/2025
» In these chaotic times that many characterise in terms of rollback, regression, and retreat, there is one measure that continues to surge ahead -- global temperature. The year 2024 was the hottest ever since worldwide temperature recording began. Though climate occupied a major space in discussions at the UN General Assembly in New York City last month, significant progress did not emerge from the fractured international environment.
Indian suspects flee after compatriot's body found on Koh Samet
News, Puriward Sinthopnumchai, Published on 21/05/2025
» Two Indian men suspected of murdering a compatriot and dumping his body in the sea off Koh Samet in Rayong province last week have fled Thailand, police said on Wednesday.
India must close its gender jobs gap
News, Kanika Mahajan, Published on 07/11/2024
» While female workforce participation consistently lags behind men's globally, there are deep regional disparities, with the largest gender employment gaps found in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) states and South Asia.
The sameness of the Modi 3.0 govt is a mirage
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 15/06/2024
» The new cabinet of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is much the same as his old. The ministers for finance, defence, home, and foreign affairs have been retained, giving the impression of policy continuity.
Subsidence spurs checks on India's hydro push
News, Roli Srivastava & Anuradha Nagaraj, Published on 28/01/2023
» Posters urging "NTPC Go Back" have appeared in Joshimath, a subsiding Indian Himalayan town where roads are cracking and houses crumbling -- a crisis locals blame largely on a hydropower project led by India's biggest electricity producer NTPC.
Govt plots more India 'mini-FTAs'
News, Phusadee Arunmas and PORAMET TANGSATHAPORN, Published on 31/07/2022
» The government is planning to sign agreements with several states in India to boost trade between the countries, said Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit.
Amid Covid chaos, India's farmers eye record wheat crop
News, Mayank Bhardwaj, Reuters, Published on 01/05/2021
» While India battles soaring Covid-19 infections, on the outskirts of New Delhi thousands of farmers still occupy camps where they are keeping up a months-long sit-in protest against government legislation that they say harms them.
Don't politicise the Hagia Sophia
News, Editorial, Published on 19/07/2020
» After it was designated as a museum in 1936 by the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the Hagia Sophia took on a different meaning. It wasn't just a place of worship as it had been under the Byzantines and the Ottomans. It became a meeting place for people of different faiths but held by no religion in particular. It was a place where laymen, leaders, popes and presidents met to marvel at the grandeur of its domed roof, which has seen empires come and go over its long history.
Kristallnacht for India's Muslims?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/03/2020
» The anti-Muslim pogrom in northeastern Delhi last week only killed 43 people, and a few of them weren't even Muslims. But then on Kristallnacht ("The Night of Broken Glass") in Germany in 1938, only 91 Jews were killed. It was still a Nazi declaration of war on the Jews, and a forewarning of the 6 million Jewish deaths to come.
Nobody's got a clue on India's poll
News, Mihir Sharma, Published on 14/03/2019
» India's parliamentary elections are like no others in the world. Nine hundred million people are eligible to vote in 2019, for 573 constituencies -- the largest of which contains almost three million voters. The country will take 39 days to vote; some states, like giant Uttar Pradesh with a population of 200 million, will vote in seven stages. And, on May 23, we will get to know who won.