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The results of a nationwide economic survey in Pakistan, undertaken by IPSOS, Europe’s leading market research outfit indicate that the net job loss in the country due to pandemic, is feared to surpass substantially the estimate by the ministry of planning, worked out in April this year, between 12.3 million and 18.5 million people. The loss to economy is put anywhere between Rs2 trillion and Rs2.5 trillion in just three months, assuming “moderate to severe shocks from the coronavirus outbreak”. In monetary terms, the three-month wage loses will translate in to Rs.66 billion.

The pandemic and the lockdown are certainly causing an absolute shrinkage in the Gross Domestic Product of the Indian economy. But these tend to obscure something very serious that was happening even earlier, namely a real income decline for vast numbers of working people.

August 5 marks the completion of a year since the infamous steps were taken in parliament to nullify Article 370 of the constitution that provided for special status to the state of Jammu & Kashmir and the damaging legislation which dismembered the state and created two union territories – Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.

The BJP government has unleashed the process of privatisation of the public sector undertakings without considering the plight of economy in the country. Indian Railways, a government undertaking, has been the biggest industry in Asia with a12.3 lakh workforce is facing the disaster as the signals coming from the Union government are quite clear and it was not a surprise. Previously the railway budget used to be presented in Parliament separately. But when railway budget was included in the general budget, everyone noticed the conspiracy of Sangh Parivar and its ulterior motive to handover the Indian Railways to private hands.

New Delhi: Junior Women's Hockey Team midfielder Mariana Kujur says that her dream is to play for the country at the Olympics.

In the advancement of ultra-right politics propaganda plays a crucial role. The history of fascism has paraded innumerable instances of it. The Indian face of fascism represented by RSS controlled BJP has excelled the art in a comparatively short span of time. They believe that through propaganda they could turn black into white and false into truth. Doordarshan, our own national channel, is under constant pressure to follow the suit.

Former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa insists that democracy will prevail in the Latin American country despite the government waging “lawfare” in a bid to block his candidacy in the 2021 election.

The Indian judiciary is facing a crisis. The judiciary’s response to rape cases, specifically, rape survivors seems to fluctuate between insensitive and thoughtless to sexist and misogynistic.

What has been happening in West Bengal and Rajasthan makes it crystal clear that the institution of Governor has lost its sanctity as the governors instead of relying on their own conscience and applying their mind were acting according to the briefs handed over to them by their political bosses.

The Modi Government’s new National Education Policy (NEP) for the children and youth of India is dressed in RSS khaki with shades of the intent of a multitude of saffron organizations hued into it. Don’t be surprised if India becomes ‘Bharat’ in more ways than one in a couple of decades from now, especially if the BJP continues to hold its own at the Centre under this and other BJP Prime Ministers.