Opinion
After the British Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations it was diagnosed that an estimated 1.4 million people or one in 45 had caught the virus - up from one in 65 the week before. That was a rise of 43%. By the week ending 11 June, the Covid rates in the United Kingdom had climbed to: one in 50...
The US Supreme Court on 30 June seriously affected efforts aimed at combating climate action in parts of the world including the United States suffering from climate variability. This took place, as observed by climatologist Ella Nielson “by handcuffing the Environmental Protection Agency'...
In the third week of June, World Refugee Day witnessed massive rallies all over the world generated by those who had become refugees- having had to flee their places of residence in different countries and seeking shelter in another country. There was general criticism of the global apathy and inact...
A Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) was recently convened in the first half of May due to the evolving situation emerging in Eastern Europe. There was intensive discussion between EU institutions to try and find least common denominators about how the EU might be able to overcome ...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has survived a confidence vote by securing the support of 211 ruling party legislators in the British Parliament. However, according to analysts the rebellion by 148 has dealt a massive blow to his authority and has over the last few days raised questions over his leader...
On June 5 the whole world, including Bangladesh, observed and celebrated World Environment Day. We were reminded that raising environmental standards were essential given the important strategic role it plays within the paradigm of achieving Sustainable Development Goals. There were also media repor...
This latest Australian election has upset the regular roll-call and focused this time also on more than a few minor parties and Independents who were fed-up with the two-party system. After almost a decade of conservative leadership, Australian voters have turned their back on the ruling coalition a...
The principle of confrontation has created an osmotic effect on both sides of the Atlantic. Three months after the beginning of the East European crisis, a sense of urgency has emerged underlining the need for a transatlantic sense of purpose.In the third week of May, at the end of the second Minist...
For quite some time there have been moves to undermine the anachronistic and controversial veto powers that are enjoyed in the United Nations Security Council by its five permanent members- China, France, Russia, United Kingdom and the United States- all nuclear-weapon States.The veto power originat...
The evolving dimensions pertaining to human rights have been changing all over the world over the last two years. On the one hand all countries have observed Mother’s Day and expressed their honor for all mothers all over the world, irrespective of ethnicity or religion. At the same time group...
Quite correctl, the breakdown of the French election final vote must give Emmanuel Macron pause for thought. It is clear from Katya Adler’s comment that this time once again, the concerted public effort to keep a right-wing nationalist candidate from becoming the French President is no lo...
World attention has been drawn to a research report prepared by Srishty Anand, an analyst associated with responsible and accountable financial usage has recently drawn attention to Oxfam’s report “Inequality Kills 2022” and its reference to India. It has exposed the growing gap be...
Climate activist, scientist and analyst Matt McGrath on 28 April, 2019 highlighted the natural and human emergency the world was facing within the current paradigm. This assessment drew particular attention of most climatologists who had gathered in Paris at that time to reach an agreement on humani...
It may be noted that no Pakistan Prime Minister has ever completed a five-year term in office during that country’s nearly 75-year history. Imran Khan, a cricketer-turned-politician, was removed from Office through high political drama in the early hours of 10 April after 174 MPs voted ag...
Fasting is obligatory for every adult Muslim during the month of Ramadan every year, unless, one is physically indisposed or suffering from some other drawback. Each day, the fast begins at dawn and ends at sunset. During this time Muslims are asked to remember those who are less fortunate than them...
Finally, it has been encouraging to see that there has been a slight change consistent with democratic norms, good governance and culpability regarding criminal actions that have been undertaken against the Rohingya population of Myanmar’s Rakhine State by the Myanmar armed forces authorities....
The world has been following very carefully the progression of the pandemic for the last two years. In this context a report has indicated that the COVID-19 pandemic which had continued unabated throughout 2021, had infected till then an estimated 276 million people worldwide and that more than 5.3 ...
Energy and electricity demand have grown along with the economy and India now has the third-largest electricity grid in the world, with a gross installed capacity of 344 gigawatts (GW) in March 2018 (the end of FY 2018). Nonetheless, with India’s population of about 1.4 billion people, the gri...
The Indian Central Information Commission (CIC) Annual Report (AR) for the year 2020-21 has just been published. Venkatesh Nayak, Indian Right to Information activist has drawn attention to several interesting elements that have surfaced through this Report.Prepared in accordance with the mandate un...
International attention over the past two years has been given in particular towards monitoring very carefully the efforts being undertaken by China with regard to investment, security and economic integration. The consequences of Brexit and the change in leadership in Germany and Japan have also ad...
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