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It is thirty years since India adopted neoliberal policies in 1991, though some would date their introduction even earlier to 1985. Newspapers are full of assessments of the impact of these policies on the economy, and liberalisers from Manmohan Singh downwards, have suddenly become visible, lauding their handiwork, while lamenting at best that the benefits of liberalisation have been unevenly distributed. Manmohan Singh has recently said that “a healthy and dignified life for every Indian must be prioritised”; one wonders what prevented him from doing so when he was at the helm of affairs.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s talks in Delhi during her five day visit beginning July 26, have helped in a big way in facilitating the process of an understanding in principle that the Congress has to be a major partner in the proposed front of the anti-BJP opposition parties in order to ensure the defeat of the BJP led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.

It is almost impossible to find out any news of what is happening in Africa. It’s as though the continent is completely off the media’s radar, yet what is happening there will have consequences for the whole world. The reason why this region is subjected to so much political meddling needs to be understood.

United States President Joe Biden is giving away $100 each to citizens who vaccinate. State and local governments have been told to draw from Biden’s $1.9 trillion ‘American Rescue Plan’ to incentivize vaccinations. The $100 incentive might “sound unfair” to those who have already vaccinated, but it’s “an extra incentive to boost vaccination rates, protect communities, and save lives,” said Biden.

New Delhi: India is left with no choice or alternative, they have to win against Ireland to stay alive in the Women's Olympic competition on Thursday.

New Delhi: Putting behind couple of poor performance, Manu Bhaker fired superb 292 out of 300 and stayed in contention as she was placed fifth after the first precision round of qualifying in the Women’s 25M Pistol, of the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Olympics Shooting competitions at the Asaka Shooting range.

The concept of democracy, which had promised equal rights and voice for the voiceless and to act as a human rights watchdog to check injustice and atrocities in totalitarian and autocratic regimes, has failed to ensure equality for minorities even in the world’s largest democracy.

Pedro Castillo was finally sworn in as Peruvian president on July 28 on the 200th anniversary of the Andean country’s independence from Spain. With this, the Latin American nation entered a new era to be ruled by a self proclaimed Marxist-Leninist who has promised to impart a radical shift to the tottering economy of the country by doing away with the pro-rich policies which have dominated Peru for decades.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken doesn’t know much about the people of the region he visited. South Asia abounds with the weirdo. The day before Blinken arrived, five Pakistani men gang-raped a goat and murdered it before they fled. Last heard the police were hunting for them. At the time Blinken was meeting ‘Civil Society’ in New Delhi. And Al Jazeera was saying that India’s civil society is angrier than Indra at India’s brazen trampling of human rights.

Majority of working households in India have been undergoing an unprecedented hardship ever since countrywide lockdown was announced on March 24, 2020. They were largely uncovered by any social security schemes on the one hand and only 28 per cent of them had salary earning or regular wage – in rural areas only 12.9 per cent and in urban areas 41.3 per cent. About 14.7 per cent households in the urban areas and 9.1 per cent in the rural areas did not have any income from economic activities.