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We need NGOs or CSOs to act as the ‘Third Sector’ of governance and developmental process

In 'A Strategic Myth: ‘Underdevelopment’ in Jammu and Kashmir', Sehar Iqbal explores the community-level impact of state-led reforms through data and oral histories.

When violence broke out against Hindus during Durga Puja in Bangladesh, PM Sheikh Hasina, ruling party, media and opposition spoke in one voice to condemn it.

2001, 2002 we saw afghanistan with the real opportunity and movement towards a democratic form of government, it was democracy but democratic to some extent. we saw improvements in human development indicators, so children going back to school etc. all of that is now put at risk and now obviously one has a great sense of disappointment does that mean that everything we did over the past 20 years has been wasted. farfrom it but we nowjust have to really hope that the people of afghanistan will ha...

Some actions of political figures in India are detrimental to the consolidation of cordial bilateral ties

13 Years After Tata Nano Drove Out Of West Bengal, State Faces Choice Between Singur And Sanand Models by Karan Bhasin - Mar 16, 2021 01:38 PM The Tata Nano Singur story Snapshot Mamata Banerjee became chief minister after forcing Tata Nano out of Singur while Narendra Modi became prime minister after welcoming it in Sanand. The Tata Nano Singur plant in West Bengal was shifted to Sanand in Gujarat in 2008 and the Sanand industrial region emerged as a major manufacturing hub in its aftermath. ...

Text Size: A+ Narendra Modi, with his consecutive majorities, has been promising India a never-seen resurgence. What we are seeing, at the same time, is a return to that old, familiar ‘ door hato ai duniya waalo, Hindustan hamara hai (stay away, world, hands off my India)’ neurosis. In just over two weeks, we have seen the British High Commissioner summoned for admonition because his Parliament discussed India’s farmers’ protests. The government and its more vocal supporters, at ma...

What’s new? In February 2020, South Sudan’s two main belligerents began forming a unity government pursuant to a peace deal inked a year and a half earlier. But the pact is fragile, smaller conflicts are still ablaze and the threat of return to full-blown civil war remains.  Why does it matter? Forthcoming elections could test the peace deal severely. Looking further ahead, conflict will continue to plague South Sudan until its leaders forge a political system that distributes power mo...

OPINION / VIEWPOINT By Jorge Heine Published: Jan 30, 2021 05:56 PM Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera speaks after the arrival of almost 2 million doses of the CoronaVac vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac at Santiago’s International Airport on Thursday. Photo: AFP   Two million doses of Sinovac vaccines arrived in Chile on January 28, with another two million doses expected to arrive on 31 January. They will be administered to people over 60 years old in the next few weeks. The f...