NOVANEWS By Sajjad Shaukat Since its inception, India has never missed an opportunity to victimise Pakistan by creating deliberate water scarcity with the aim to damage the latter agriculturally. Last year, Indian extremist Prime Minister […]
NOVANEWS By Graham Peebles The commercialization of the land in India is shattering the lives of millions of the country’s poorest, hungriest and most malnourished people. The state has more or less abandoned rural people (70 […]
NOVANEWS By Graham Peebles The “new” India is racing towards the altar of materialism and market fundamentalism, abandoning its hallmark of spirituality, its philosophical treasures and any notion of unity, justice and service. Under the careful […]
NOVANEWS By Countercurrents The farmers in Maharashtra won a historic victory after 50,000 farmers threatened to siege the state assembly. The Devendra Fadnavisgovernment of Maharashtra has agreed to the demands of protesting farmers. A committee has been […]
NOVANEWS By Colin Todhunter Asia-Pacific Research The regulatory system for GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in India is in tatters. So said the Coalition for a GMFree India (CGMFI) in 2017 after media reports about the illegal cultivation of GM soybean […]
NOVANEWS By M.K. BHADRAKUMAR | Asia Times Developments in Maldives have begun unfolding according to script. India, the United States and Britain are spearheading the demand that Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen comply with the order by […]
NOVANEWS By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline Frankly, it was hard to believe when some newspapers mentioned a few months ago that PM Modi was planning to travel to Palestine in a near future. No […]
NOVANEWS Simin Akhter Naqvi Supremacist forces essentially play on our sense of vanity and our desire to externally reinforce parochial notions of cultural identity. When we see our immediate identities threatened, we are bound […]
NOVANEWS The Story of Independent India: Capitalist Accumulation Grapples with Semi Feudal Dis-Accumulation. Book Review Nasir Tyabji Chirashree Das Gupta State and Capital in Independent India: Institutions and Accumulation (Delhi, Cambridge University Press: 2016) hb. […]
NOVANEWS Shamsul Islam Currently, one of the worst post-World War II genocides is underway in India’s neighbourhood. In Rakhine Province of Myanmar (Burma) cleansing of people belonging to the Rohingya Tribe (mostly Muslims and few […]