By Simone Galimberti* KATHMANDU, Nepal | 10 March 2025 (IDN) — Was the emergency meeting of the European Council, held on the 6 March in Brussels, a real “watershed” moment for Europe? The President of European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen defined it as a day in which “history has been written”. Considering the chaos […]
India: Buddhist Administration of Mahabodhi Temple Will Lend Credence to ‘Buddhist’ Diplomacy
Viewpoint by Bhikkhu Sanghasena* LEH, Ladakh, India | 8 March 2025 (IDN) — The ongoing debates surrounding the management of the most sacred place for the Buddhist world, the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya, underscore a deeper issue of religious representation and governance in multi-religious India, as the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi promotes […]
National Youth Council of Pakistan: By the Youth, for the Youth
By Bisma Qamar* NEW YORK | ISLAMABAD | 8 March 2025 (IDN) — “The world belongs to those bold enough to shape it. No matter how uncertain the path, progress lies in perseverance. There is a thin line between doing wonders and remaining stagnant, it’s the courage to dream that turns possibilities into reality. Youth […]
Development From Within – Indian University Redefines Development Communication
By Kalinga Seneviratne SHANTINIKETAN, India | 6 March 2025 (IDN) — In the immediate aftermath of the decolonisation process in the 1960s and 1970s, led by Western scholars, development communication was seen as a top-down process where communication could be used to educate the peasants to wean them away from subsistence farming and other livelihoods […]
Third Way and its Regressive Politics Should Have No Place in the Democratic Party
By Sam Rosenthal* WASHINGTON DC | 5 March 2025 (IDN) — Over the weekend, Politico reported that, in early February, a group of Democratic “consultants, campaign staffers, elected officials and party leaders” had convened in Virginia to chart a course forward for the party. The so-called “Comeback Retreat” was organized by the corporate centrist think […]
New Report Warns of Increasing Nuclear Dangers
By Alice Slater* NEW YORK | 5 March 2025 (IDN) — Once again the ‘Gloomsday’ Machine is reporting the awful news about the growing nuclear threats, the widening nuclear proliferation, and ongoing modernization and development of new weapons most recently in the Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor which defines itself as “a research project managed by Norwegian […]
Ending The Second Cold War Between Russia and The West
By Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden | 4 March 2025 (IDN) — George Orwell, the author of “Animal Farm”, the satire on how a dictatorship can slowly but steadily evolve in a democratic society, and “1984”, a novel about three dystopian dictatorships always at war with each other, was the first person to use the phrase […]
From A National Initiative to A Non-Discriminatory Concept of NWFZs
Follow-Up On a Cold War Era Lesson By Enkhsaikhan Jargalsaikhan The writer is Chairman of Blue Banner NGO, Former Mongolian Permanent Representative to the United Nations. NEW YORK | 4 March 2025 (IDN) — During the Cold war years Mongolia has learned a bitter lesson of the implications of hosting military bases of a nuclear-weapon […]
UN Undertakes Yet Another Attempt to Ban the Bomb
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | 4 March 2025 (IDN) — The West’s preoccupation with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine three years ago on 24 February and the spectre of a nuclear clash has put out of sight the urgent menace of 2,100 nuclear warheads nine states — Russia, United States, China, France, United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, […]
UN Nuclear Agency Chief Voices Safety Concerns Over Sites in Ukraine and Iran
By Jaya Ramachandran VIENNA (IDN) — As the Ukraine war drags on, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has expressed concern about the escalating nuclear safety risks. Reiterating the UN-backed IAEA’s commitment to monitoring facilities such as the Khmelnitsky, Rivne and South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs), he described how […]