Is there a Role for Human Rights in a Free Trade World?
Up to 50,000 people a day die from poverty related causes with 22,000 of these fatalities being children under the age of five. The plight of the world’s most impoverished and vulnerable people have been further More...
India Gives its Nuclear Capable Missile a Run for its Money
India has successfully test-fired a version of its nuclear-capable Agni-1 missile Thursday. The missile has a range of 750 km and can be fired from mobile launchers. The test fire came amid an announcement of reinforcement More...
India Deploys 36,000 Troops to Chinese Border
India is stepping up efforts to fortify its borders with a deployment of two new army divisions of 36,000 men to the north-easter border with China. According to BBC News 23 November, part of the troops will be More...
Industrial Accidents and Global Inequity: The Contrasting Cases of Bhopal and BP Horizon Deepwater
Bhopal India Almost 26 years have passed since the night of December 3rd 1984, when the people of Bhopal (India) were enveloped in a poisonous miasmic cloud of methyl isocyanate, which gushed forth from the Union More...
Three G8 countries at “high risk” to natural disasters
Three G8 countries- France, Italy and the United States- are considered to be at “high risk” to natural disasters, claims the Natural Disasters Risk Index (NDRI). The same index, released on Thursday, lists More...
Unemployment to stay high in the US, Europe until 2011
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has More...
APEC says global economy recovering
The leaders of 21 APEC economies, in a recently concluded two-day summit More...
FICCI survey says market conditions effervescent, sales on the surge during festive season
As per the survey conducted by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce More...
Global Financial Crisis – The Road to the Pittsburgh Summit
It may surprise readers to learn that this World Economic Outlook sees global economic risks as having declined since our last issue in September 2006. Certainly this is at odds with many recent newspaper headlines More...
Indian PM: Restoring growth rate to 9% biggest challenge
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in his Independence Day speech that restoring the growth rate More...
