Category: So Asia
Coronavirus Exposes India’s Apathy Toward Its 100m Migrant Workers
The acuteness of their plight today is a result of the fact that India ignored…
Chilean Solution to Safe Drinking Water Shortage
IRSHAD SALIM — A Chilean startup has built a machine that can take moisture out…
Bangladesh’s Water Teeming With Drugs, Chemicals, Study Says
Pollution due to industrial effluents has become an area of growing environmental concern Water sampling…
250 Days of Kashmir Lockdown: 93 Deaths, Fear of Yasin Malik’s ‘Extra-Judicial Killing’
Many in the disputed region fear Yasin Malik, a pro-freedom leader who is in incarceration,…
MUSLIMS Are NOT EQUAL, Says a Top Leader of India’s Ruling BJP Party
DESPARDES — After violent riots in New Delhi in February, many Muslims lost their homes….
Afghanistan Govt Announces Team For Peace Talks With Taliban
The global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been adding challenges to the peace process and Khalilzad…
Hungry Kids Seen Eating Grass in Modi’s Constituency
DESPARDES — Some children eating grass in India were photographed on the the third day…
‘India Headed for 10Pct Contraction’ in GDP in 2020
SoDATA – Twice as much as it had contracted four decades back – in 1980…
India Could be ‘Next Coronavirus Epicenter’ in Asia
Indian officials have said the WHO guidance didn’t apply in India because the spread of…
Has BJP Leadership Decided to Divide India Once Again?
“… in one of his (UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath) speeches he can be heard…
India Has Slid to Being a Majoritarian State in Economic Despair: Manmohan Singh
“With no checks, the fire of social tensions is rapidly spreading across the nation and…
India Focusing on Measures That are ‘Below Threshold of All-Out War’
DESPARDES — The Indian military establishment faces a ‘David vs Goliath’ like situation and a…