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There was no dearth of prognostications from geologists, seismologists, environmentalists, anti-developmentalists, and advocates of ‘sustainable development’ that Joshimath represents a blinkered vision of mindless development, but the government chose to look the other way. The government’s primary impulse now, after cracks appeared in more than 700 houses in the small

In his recent book Megathreats, economist Nouriel Roubini, nicknamed ‘Dr Doom’ for his correct forecast of the 2008 global financial crisis, has again come up with some dire predictions about the global economy in the not-too-distant future. This time, he foresees a ‘Great Stagflationary Debt Crisis’ due to some interconnected ‘megathreats’ looming over the global economy.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, following a clash between Indian and Chinese troops in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang sector, said China is preparing for war but the Indian government is “deep in slumber”, unmindful of the gravity of the situation. He warned that China’s preparations were not just for incursions, but for a full-scale war. Without losing a chance, the BJP accused him

In 1991, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was probing the source of funding of Kashmiri militants. One arrest led to another and the agency was suddenly in possession of two diaries that had a long list of payments made to people who were identified by their initials. Digging deeper, the CBI realised that they were staring at one of the biggest corruption scandals of

With several state elections due soon and the Lok Sabha election due in 2024, many citizen groups are perturbed about the massive money power and the criminal muscle power destroying the very integrity of India’s elections and are trying to build a citizens’ movement to overcome them. A gathering under the banner of the “Karnataka Convention on Electoral Democracy”, was held

Recent public discourses and writings in India are dominated by the use of two words: “Constitution” and “religion.”  Those who swear by the Constitution declare it a secular document and emphasise its provisions relating to freedom to profess, practice, and propagate one’s religion and the State’s duty not to discriminate on grounds of religion.

Iran is on the boil. Women are up in arms and the uprising is being crushed by the Iranian government, making global headlines that once again point to the brutality brought about by a mix of fundamentalist ideology and political power. But the Iran story is slightly different from the standard tale of clerics seeking subjugation to their religious demands. It was groups of

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Climate Change Report in February 2022. It contained several alarming findings. The IPCC Report stated that CO2 emissions in 2019 were higher than at any time over the last 2 million years. The sea levels have risen faster in the 1900s than in any other century prior to that. Changes due to global warming such

The Government of India’s decision to export $249 million worth of weapons, including its lethal multi-barrel rocket launcher, Pinaka, to Armenia, which is engaged in a fratricidal conflict with neighbouring Azerbaijan, suggests not just the shifting sands of the global power balance, but also the way New Delhi is readjusting its foreign policy to factor regional conflicts

During the second fortnight of September, since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in the custody of Iran’s ‘morality police’ over her “inappropriate hijab”, protests over her death have spread across 46 Iranian cities, towns and villages. Many people have been killed in the protests amid clashes with security forces. Crowds in the capital city of Tehran shouted