Arun KumarThe government is accelerating the process of privatizing the public sector under one pretext or the other. This process was set in motion in 1991 with the new economic policies (NEP) but now using the excuse of dealing...
Tikender Singh PanwarThe gap between the top 10% asset holders and the bottom 10% is 500 times in rural India but is shockingly 50,000 times in urban areas, Oxfam, the British founded confederation of 21 independent charitable organizations, reported...
TK ArunChina is now the biggest potential source of global economic instability, thanks to mulish persistence with the zero-Covid strategy favored by its authoritarian leadership. This potential instability also manifests the contradiction between centralized decisionmaking and a capitalist economy...
Amita SinghIn one of the consultative meetings of the World Food Programme on disaster management organized by Sphere India recently, somebody raised objections to the role of humanitarian law in disaster management on the logic that this is already...
IMPRI TeamTo discuss the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on women and to put light upon unpaid care work, the Gender Impact Studies Center (GISC), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, hosted a special lecture under the...
TK ArunWhere should India stand on the standoff between Russia and the Western allies over Ukraine? From the limited point of view of a sovereign nation’s right to choose its allies and military pacts, as well as to host...
अनिल त्रिगुणायतश्रीलंका द्वारा कर्जों की अदायगी न कर पाने के मामले ने दुनिया का ध्यान चीन के कर्ज शिकंजे की ओर एक बार फिर खींचा है. कर्ज की शर्तों में बदलाव करने के श्रीलंकाई अनुरोध को चीन अभी मानने...
Santosh Mehrotra & Kingshuk SarkarThe Ministry of Labour and Employment launched the e-Shram portal on August 26, 2021, with the apparent objective of developing a national database of unorganized workers. The ministry estimates that there are 38 crores, unorganized...
Arun KumarThe Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) registration or license that enables the licensees to get foreign funds has either not been renewed or canceled for many non-governmental organizations or NGOs.Problems created for one of the best known of...
Sameer Unhale Access to Public Health facilities for urban poor in cities and town of global south has always been an area of concern. City Governments, by and large tend to be engineering dominated. Thus, road network and mobility,...
