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31 Aug 2019

First ‘green village’ and its struggles

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Sheshu Babu ‘The soul of India lives in its villages’ Mahatma Gandhi While cosmopolitan cities and even many villages are being pollu...

Panorama documentary exposes human cost of gambling industry profits

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Tom Pearce The BBC  Panorama  documentary “Addicted to Gambling,” aired this month, gave an insight into the exponential growth of the ...

Up to 600,000 children in England either homeless or at risk of becoming homeless

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Margot Miller More than half a million children in England are living in families classed as homeless or about to become homeless. A ...

Standard & Poor’s claims Argentina has “defaulted” on its debt

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Andrea Lobo As the fallout continues from the Argentine primaries last week, which foresees the defeat of right-wing incumbent presiden...

UK Home Office set up fake social media network to target young British Muslims

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Tania Kent A freedom of information request (FOI) has exposed the existence of a covert spying operation by the Conservative government...

US escalates regime-change machinations against Venezuela

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Bill Van Auken Seven months after proclaiming himself Venezuela’s “interim president” and gaining immediate recognition from Washington...

Harvard student deported over friends’ social media posts

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Trévon Austin US immigration officials turned away an international student accepted into Harvard University last week. Ismail B. Ajjaw...

Johnson’s proroguing of Parliament: The British ruling class declares war on democratic rights

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Chris Marsden Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament is a historic attack on democratic rights and an attempt t...

New Zealand economic forecast: “Things could turn ugly”

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John Braddock Fears of a global recession, amid the US trade war with China, financial instability and market volatility, are growing a...

Italy’s Five Star populists and social democrats try to form shaky coalition government

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Mike Head  Despite denouncing each other vehemently until days ago, the leaders of Italy’s “centre-left” opposition Democratic Party (P...

Johnson to suspend UK parliament to push through Brexit in a major assault on democratic rule

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Chris Marsden Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom, yesterday signed off on Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s request to suspend parl...

China Vs International Law: The Vanguard Reef Incident

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Srikanth Kondapalli Before any binding Code of Conduct (CoC) is arrived at by 2021 on the South China Sea (SCS), a spate of new develop...
28 Aug 2019

DAAD University Leadership and Management Training Programme (UNILEAD) 2020 for University Managers in Developing Countries

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Application Deadline: 14th October 2019 11:59 am Central European Summer Time. Eligible Countries:  South East Asia (Cambodia, Indonesia...

Invest2Impact Challenge Initiative 2020 for 100 women-led businesses in East Africa

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Application Deadline: 20th September 2020 Eligible Countries: East Africa About the Award: Invest2Impact is an exciting women-focused b...