Those countries are fortunate who have leaders who make public commitments for higher achievements for their country. In that sense India is fortunate that PM Modi is publicly committed (through election promises) to achieve (in addition to transparent and clean govt.) unprecedented economic progres

Kalawati comes from a family of small farmers. Hers is a ‘joint and happy family’ where she lives with her husband, 1 daughter, 2 sons, 1 daughter-in-law and 1 granddaughter. Her postgraduate sons working outside the village are doing fairly well and have helped her construct their own house in the

The compassionate Karl Marx after having invested two decades into the reading of economics and practice of labor laws in England ended up with a couple of unique concepts along with other mammoth intellectual contributions, like Das Capita, Communist Manifesto, criticism of Hegel’s philosophy etc.

The Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs are a new, universal set of 17 proposed goals, with 169 targets that 193 countries (who are members of the UN) will be expected to use to frame their post-2015 development agendas and policies over the next 15 years, once the MDGs expire at the end of this y

The ongoing imprisonment of Pakistan Christian woman Asia Bibi highlights the ongoing oppression of Pakistan Christian, other Pakistan religious minorities, as well as Pakistan majority Muslims, by the oppressive blasphemy law, used as a tactic to silence unpopular voices and to oppress others. As p

It is only a matter of time that the cases of black money etc of Lalit Modi will be heard / monitored by Supreme Court of India (SCI) in which this issue is bound to come-up that why did Government of India (GOI) not appeal against Delhi High Court order of August 27, 2014 (which restored passport t

Out of ~ 68 years (except for ~ 11 years) the political party Indian National Congress (INC) remained in power as government of India (GOI) hence INC is an asset to India in the sense that it has maximum experience of running the government. But INC is a liability also for India because it consider

Though opposition parties (Congress, AAP, Communist Parties etc) are targeting Minister of Foreign Affairs Sushma Swaraj in [Lalit Modi’s travel document (from UK to Portugal) controversy] by press conferences media debates, demonstrations etc, but their opposition lacks legal & political teeth and

Pushpa lives with her skilled-worker husband and four children—2 girls and 2 boys. Apart from being a woman farmer, she also doubles up as an ASHA bahu (Accredited Social Health Activist worker). Pushpa was born in a family of farmers in a village of Jalaun district. They were 6 siblings. Her father

Some years ago, American forces organised a military operation and killed Osama bin Laden. Both when Osama was alive and when he was killed, there was much talk about him.
I’m always interested in the lesson that is contained in any incident or event. And the lesson that one learns from this event

Weakened by years of war, Syria's government appears ready for the country's de facto partition, defending strategically important areas and leaving much of the country to rebels and jihadists. The strategy was in evidence recently with the Syrian army's retreat from the ancient central city of Palm

In the final days of the Bonn Climate Change Conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Corporate Accountability International delivered a resounding call to the governments who have ratified the UNFCCC: protect the treaty and climate policymaking from the undu

Just three weeks ago the Egyptian court sentenced Egypt’s former Muslim Brotherhood president, Mohammed Morsi, to the death penalty after evidence presented from Egyptian intelligence documents proved him guilty of spying for Qatar, Iran and Turkey.
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US President Barack Obama on Monday at the G7 summit of world leaders in Germany acknowledged that the US still lacks a "complete strategy" to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS) and stem the group's rise in Syria and Iraq and further said "We don't yet have a complete strategy. The details of that are

Leela Shikhdhar was born in a farmer’s family of village Gabia. She had to leave her studies midway after passing Class 8 as her mother got sick and the responsibility of managing the household chores and looking after her four siblings fell upon her. But after her marriage she managed to finish her