Without actively involving the people of the USA through their religion (US-Christianity) Prez Trump can’t achieve peace in Ukraine (ii)- Only With the help from US-Christianity and India for launching a ’New Rule based world Body’ Prez Trump can achieve peace in UKraine (iii)-

World leaders will meet at the upcoming 80th United Nations General Assembly and UN High Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) next month. But would they take stronger action to prevent NCDs and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is yet to be seen. The draft text that would be up for thei

"In the Rohingya refugee communities, especially with whom I work, the progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)-3 (health and wellbeing) and SDG-5 (gender equality) has been deeply uneven and fragile - there have been small but significant steps forward," said Noor Fatima, Special

The recent declaration by the USA of Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) alias Majeed Brigade as Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) as mentioned at https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/08/terrorist-designation-of-the-majeed-brigade is construed in media as the

India is celebrating its 79th Independence Day today, on August 15, 2025, marking seventy-nine years since it broke free from colonial rule and embraced the dawn of freedom. The people of India should remember that they won freedom with courage and unity & need to preserve their historic

When misuse and overuse of medicines is making infections difficult or impossible to treat, then are not we all at risk? rightly asks Bhakti Chavan, a survivor of extensively drug-resistant TB or XDR-TB (one of the severest forms of TB which has very limited treatment options) and a member of Wor

Though the leader of the free world, the USA has not reacted appropriately  but the opposition in India (Mainly the Indian National Congress, the INC) should move first the ECI and then the SCI (if necessary) to get the national voter list published on ECI website for scrutiny / investigatio

"Anti-rights and anti-gender pushes are driven by political, patriarchal, conservative, and religious bodies that frame wrong understandings of gender as a ‘threat to the social good’. They make it (wrongly) seem that any progressive position on justice- whether

This refers to an interview by ArchBishop of Bengaluru Peter Machado to the Wire (as given at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7QOTL8mP-8 ) where he has rightly taken stand against human trafficking but apologetically, irresponsibly and  cowardly talked about conversion which is th

Youth-led, rights-based and gender transformative HIV response is key. “Community-led programmes are lifelines of the HIV response, reaching those most in need. As international aid shrinks, these lifelines are the first to disappear. We must protect them,” said UNAIDS. One such lifel

The irony of current times is that despite the writing on the wall "health is a fundamental human right," the ground reality cannot be farther from the truth. Over 70% people die of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) - a significant number of them are preventable. An infectious disease li

Recently, we saw large-scale violence targeting the Syrian Druze community in Sweida province in southern Syria. Druze are a small religious minority group in Syria and are around 3.20% of the total Syrian population. As per the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) Syrian interim President

Unless we remove systemic discrimination, disadvantages and patriarchal barriers, how would we ensure that women and gender diverse peoples in all their diversities are equitably and justly able to access economic markets and labour markets? Economic justice is critical cog-in-th

The Trump-administration should understand five  points about on-going Ukraine war:-(1)-. Earlier Europwwas not feeling the pinch of the Ukraine war hence Europe so far has been tolerating / condoning Russian oil imports by India even to the extent of  supplying defense

While health, gender and other sustainable development goals are reeling under severe funding cuts, governments of richer nations are increasing defence budgets. More shocking is that same governments who are raising spending on militarisation, are the ones committing to ‘peace’ at a