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Will India become a powerhouse of renewable energy?

India’s eco­nomy has been a leader among developing nations, with gross domestic product (GDP) growing at 6.9 percent between financial year (FY) 2012 and FY 2018. Energy and electricity demand have grown along with the economy and India now has the third-largest electricity grid in the wo...

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The changing political scenario in the USA

President Donald Trump, about three months away from the next US Presidential elections in November is creating havoc for himself and his Republican Party through controversial comments and decisions. This has included Donald Trump obsessively picking at ties that bind the USA to its allies.These ar...

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Complex European agreement reached finally

The EU leaders have been able to reach a consensus with regard to a recovery solution in the post-corona world. This happened after a marathon summit that saw more than 90 hours of talks and became the EU's longest one since 2000. It lasted for four days. The agreement for a joint EU econom...

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Resolving existing sub-regional tensions in the Himalayas

It is unfortunate, but it is also true that the bordering regions between India and China, India and Pakistan, the contiguous sub-region between India and Nepal and the adjoining region between Bhutan and China are all in a state of flux. This has created international anxiety and also concern among...

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Myanmar escaping culpability

The 30th of July marked the World Day against Trafficking in Persons. It reminded the world once again, particularly those in Bangladesh and a few other Southeast Asian countries that Rohingya refugees, many of whom are survivors of trafficking and crimes of atrocity have little to celebrate. Some a...

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Water-logging: Our drainage facilities need priority attention

Our print as well as the electronic media has been awash since the last two weeks with detailed coverage, including photographs that displayed the total helplessness of the 17 million Dhaka inhabitants as they face water-logging throughout the capital. The consequences have been serious to say the l...

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Ukraine and Zelenskiy continue to draw attention

Volodymyr Zelenskiy became President of Ukraine a little more than one year ago and has continued to be the focal point of attention owing to different reasons not only in Europe but also across the Atlantic because of President Donald Trump of the United States. The Ukrainians, fed up with cor...

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We need responsible use of freedom of expression

Freedom of expression has been defined as the right to communicate one's opinions and ideas without fear of government retaliation or censorship. There is also the connotation that it includes any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used.Analyst...

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Brexit assumes greater significance

As time moves on, the world has been closely monitoring how the United Kingdom  will respond in the coming weeks to securing concessions from the EU. The UK, it may be recalled, formally left the EU on January 31. Since then, it has been in a transition period where it still obeys EU rules...

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Our socio-economic dynamics is vulnerable

Despite all the different angles, one needs to admit that the government has tried to introduce several positive dimensions. One consequently now needs to wait and see how the socio-economic-health factors within the budget proposal contain the negatives and promote the positives including futu...

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Right to information and digital security in these troubled times

The last few days have seen curfews and clashes in the United States with escalation of racial protests and also several incidents where the media and journalists have been subjected to severe curtailing of their rights to obtain information and then disseminate them. We have also seen the controver...

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We need to revisit aspects of corporate governance

There are different areas that are, quite correctly drawing attention of European Union policy makers- particularly re-assessing factors that will need to be addressed regarding social elements of the corporate governance matrix after the COVID-19 crisis. This is being given importance to ensur...

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Focusing more on renewable energy

Renewable energy projects in many developing countries have demonstrated that it can directly contribute to poverty reduction by providing the energy needed for creating businesses and employment. Renewable energy technologies can also indirectly support in alleviating poverty by providing energy fo...

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Israel disregards international law

The world remembers the Nakba day and the majority also accepts that injustice has been done for seven decades on the Palestinians. This geopolitical dimension has assumed more critical features in the recent past with Israel continuing to carry on with its own measures with the background support o...

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Evolving path of radical trends

Three months ago, towards the beginning of February there was a discussion going on about the growing implications of the conflict situation in the Middle East- particularly in Iraq, Syria, the southern bordering regions of Turkey and also in some countries of North Africa. Attention was being ...

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Overcoming challenges of poverty

The world has been obxerving the United Nations International Day for Eradication of Poverty for some years now. Analysts have  not only tried to define the connotations of poverty but have also given their observations on the varied denotations of this word with regard to alleviation or reduct...

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Need to carefully consider human rights features related to covid-19 pandemic

Human rights activists and civil society all over the world have been very outspoken on several sensitive factors that have emerged within the socio-economic matrix because of the uncertain and unfortunate effects arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic. They have rightly been underlining that gov...

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The virus should not be allowed to triumph over climate change

April has seen COVID-19 score another goal. Having sent more than one million people from more than 190 countries to quarantine to avoid its wrath, it has now also affected the efforts of thousands of activists trying to bring forth an acceptable engagement within the paradigm of climate variability...

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Working together to uplift ourselves from the distress of Covid-19

The Citizens’ Platform for SDGs has provided us with an important observation. They have emphasized on the need for the government authorities to get associated with non-state actors across the country for providing succor to the needy. This has a special significance at a time when we have to...

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Achieving sustainable development goals amid the virus fallout

The year 2000 saw 189 UN Member States agree on certain socio-economic development goals. Discussion carried out between economists, politicians and development experts since 1984 was able to identify certain least common denominators required for achieving several shared objectives. The Brundt...