India’s real GDP grew by an impressive 8.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2018-19. This was much higher than almost everybody’s expectations. If there was a sleeping Doubting Thomas in an analyst’s head he was woken out of…
Venezuela's economy is in freefall. Hyperinflation, power cuts and shortages of food and medicine are driving millions of Venezuelans out of the country. And yet the man many blame for the dire state of the nation, Nicolás Maduro, was sworn…
The climate data for 2018 is now mostly in, though the ongoing shutdown of the US government has caused some datasets to be delayed. In this article, Carbon Brief explains why last year proved to be so remarkable across the…
At this time of year, about 2,000 private jets fly into Zurich airport and various smaller Swiss airports (including the Dübendorf military airbase). Hundreds of helicopter flights move from Zurich to Davos, where the hotel rooms go for as high…
Understanding for intervening Constructivist and psychoanalytic oriented social research provides evidence that human behaviour is driven by the shared meanings of the subjective social experience (Blumer 1969, Mead 1934, Berger and Luckmann 1966, Moscovici 1961, Matte Blanco 1975, Carli 1993).…
Summary Report For the first time in India, a two days national convention was held in New Delhi’s Constitution Club on the attack on journalists, in which journalists from 18 states participated and shared their trauma. This convention was held…
WE, THE FARMERS OF INDIA, The producers of primary agricultural commodities; Including Women, dalit, nomadic and adivasi farmers; Landowners, tenants, sharecroppers, agricultural labourers and plantation workers; Fishworkers, milk producers, poultry farmers, livestock rearers, pastoralists, and collectors of minor forest produce;…
Date: 15.10.2018 To Shri Shinichi Kitaoka The President Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) 1-6th floor, Nibancho Center Building, 5-25 Niban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8012, Japan Junichi Yamada Board Member, JICA & Incharge of South Asia Department 1-6th floor, Nibancho Center…
Is Facebook truly an agnostic platform for all to use? After interviewing nearly 50 people over the last five months, we collated evidence (some of it circumstantial) to indicate that senior employees of Facebook India have worked, and continue to…
Facebook, the biggest online social media group in the world, is under unprecedented attack following the publication on 14 November of a 5,000-word investigation by the New York Times alleging a host of questionable practices by the digital conglomerate, that…