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The recent surge of foreign investment in India’s banking sector is driven mainly by India’s falling net FDI and external financial pressures. The authors warn that opening banking further to foreign capital could increase instability and India’s dependence on global finance.
In 2002, when larger media organisations refused to publish allegations against Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, a small-town newspaper editor did. Ram Chander Chhatrapati paid with his life. This story revisits the extraordinary courage of local journalists who challenged a powerful godman.
‘“Enough is Enough”: Goans Fight to Reclaim Selfhood Against Inept Governance’; ‘A Green Revolution in Goa’; ‘“Our Fight Is Everyone’s Fight”: A Diary of Goa’s Six-Day Protest Against Land-Regulation Changes’.
The retired professor of contemporary history from JNU says that Nehru is targeted because he embodied the core “idea of India” forged during the freedom struggle: secularism, democracy, anti-imperialism, social justice, and scientific temper – values fundamentally opposed to the current ruling dispensation.
In this reflection, Dr. Salim Nazzal argues that Lebanon’s strength lies not only in military resistance but in a profound cultural legacy built over centuries.
‘Latin America and Caribbean Solidarity in the Trump Era’: The re-assertion of the Monroe Doctrine, dubbed the “Donroe doctrine” in 2025, has aimed to limit China / Russia influence but often fractures regional cohesion. Also: ‘The Trump Corollary: Imperialist Offensive and the Assault on Venezuela’.
By securitising four decades of Afghan refugee presence rather than addressing it as a human reality, Pakistan risks sowing deep and lasting resentment across Pashtun communities on both sides of the Durand Line.
Amid a regional right-wing turn, the country’s left consolidated its political project, positioning itself well for the upcoming presidential elections.
Nepal’s communist parties have not just lost seats in parliament but also the spirit of social and economic justice.
Fifteen years after the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the disaster has not yet been brought under control. The three melted reactors remain so radioactive that they destroy the robots sent to explore the damage. No one knows exactly where the melted fuel is located or how deep it has burrowed below the reactors’ concrete pedestals, possibly into the ground.
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