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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. The Tata Nano plant resulted in a mushrooming of automotive and other ancillary industries in Sanan...

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 many levels, took self-righteous umbrage at a Western and foreign (US)-funded foundation like Freedom ...

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 more widely. The cost of cyclical fighting since 2013 has been steep: hundreds of thousands dead and m...

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 fact that President Sebastián Piñera was at Santiago´s international airport at the arrival of the...