By Nisar Keshvani SINGAPORE (IDN) — Imagine. The most remote of mountains. Two thousand metres above sea level. On the Silk Road, and 240 km away from China. In secondary cities with populations going up to 150,000. Therein, majestically stands a fully-residential university, delivering a world-class education for the next generation of Central Asian learners—regardless […]
Russia, US and The Churning Arctic Geopolitics
Viewpoint by K.M. Seethi* KOTTAYAM | India (IDN) — The Arctic geopolitics has become one of the strategic policy planks of big powers. This has been reflected in the separate statements issued by Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden after the US-Russia summit in Geneva on June 16. Putin told reporters that […]
Mounting Atrocities Against Dalits Across India
India is witnessing a worrying decline in the social status of the Dalits, coupled with an economic decline. This makes the marginalised groups even more vulnerable. Viewpoint by Dr Ram Puniyani This article is the 13th in a series of joint productions of South Asian Outlook and IDN-InDepthNews, the flagship of the International Press Syndicate. […]
Ethiopia Expresses Readiness to Host second Russia-Africa Summit
By Kester Kenn Klomegah* MOSCOW (IDN) — The Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has expressed absolute readiness and emphasized it as a progressive step to host the forthcoming second Russia-Africa Summit scheduled for 2022.
Russia’s Trade Growing with Africa
Interview by Kester Kenn Klomegah* In this interview, Alisa Andreevna Prokhorova, Managing Director for International Activities and Interaction with Business Councils, and Group of companies of the Russian Export Center offers in-depth information and statistics about Russia’s trade with Africa. MOSCOW (IDN) — First Russia–Africa Summit held on October 23-24, 2019 in Sochi, Russia, set […]
Covid-ravaged India Hard Put to Cope with the Crisis
By Shastri Ramachandaran* There is no dearth of novels and films that conjure up images of a dystopia of the dead and the dying. The reality in India though is indescribably grimmer than anything imagined or picturised in fiction or films. Not even the most authentic and devastating accounts of the plague and Spanish flu […]
NATO Plans to Focus on Russia and China
By Robert Johnson BRUSSELS (IDN) — “What we are currently experiencing is the brain death of NATO,” French President Emmanuel Macron declared in a blunt interview with The Economist in November 2019. Europe stands on “the edge of a precipice”, he said, and needs to start thinking of itself strategically as a geopolitical power; otherwise, […]
A Story of Nightmare for Patients in India’s Government-Run COVID-19 Hospital
By Tarique Anwar This report was first published in News Click on May 8, 2021. NEW DELHI (IDN) — The healthcare staff at Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Hospital in Delhi frantically clear the facility of bodies. One of the biggest government-run COVID-19 hospitals in the national capital, it is swamped by patients, triggering chaotic situations […]
Modi Govt. Abdicates Responsibility in the Face of Skyrocketing Death Toll
Viewpoint by Prabir Purkayastha* NEW DELHI (IDN) — The COVID-19 pandemic continues its brutal march across India. Figures of new infections reached 355,828 on May 3—which accounted for more than 62 percent of the world’s new infections on that day. As hospitals run out of beds, ICU capacity, and even oxygen, these factors have been […]
In Norway, Even Prime Minister Not Above COVID Law
Viewpoint by Shastri Ramachandaran NEW DELHI (IDN) — On April 9, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg was fined 20,000 kroner ($2,352) for breach of COVID rules during her 60th birthday celebration on February 26. It was nothing remotely like the Shashti Abda Poorti (celebrating completion of 60 years of age) seen in India.