One Million Species Face Extinction: UN Report

One Million Species Face Extinction: UN Report

Nearly one million species risk becoming extinct within decades while current efforts to conserve the earth’s resources will likely fail if radical action is not taken, says a major UN report on the impact of humans on nature.   Speaking in Paris at the launch of the 2019 Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services—the…

Modi Govt has Crippled the Public Sector
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Modi Govt has Crippled the Public Sector

ONGC, the once-glittering and now struggling Maharatna, best exemplifies the fact that there is something sinister in the very approach of the outgoing Modi Government towards the public sector enterprises (PSUs). In May 2019, the cash reserves of ONGC, the richest PSU, had fallen in the last two years of Modi Government to a miserable…

Trump: Emulating Hitler
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Trump: Emulating Hitler

The events of recent days in Venezuela corroborate, for the umpteenth time but now with total brazenness, Washington’s intention to seize that country by establishing a neocolonial protectorate there at any price. John Bolton’s press conference on April 30 attests to what we have said. A serial liar, he acted and spoke with absolute contempt…