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IT workers in India continue protests against increase in working hours

Unions claim millions of IT/ITes employees in India are already overworked without adequate compensation and condemn the move to normalize the 14-hour workday

IT workers in India fight back against proposed increase in working hours

The Karnataka state government, home to one of the world’s largest IT sectors, has proposed increasing working hours from 10 to 14 per day

Marcus Garvey, Mao Tse-Tung and Gandhi

Notes on Black-Asian Solidarity in times of Cold War politics and neoliberal fragmentation

New Lancet study shows air pollution kills 33,000 people every year in India’s major urban centers

Most of the victims of bad air in India’s major cities are working people who cannot access adequate healthcare facilities

Asia stands up for Palestine

Hundreds of millions have taken to the streets across the Asian continent, reaffirming the world’s solidarity with Palestine

IMEC India-Middle East–Europe economic corridor is a geopolitical pipe dream

The bottom line is how the IMEC idea on paper can be turned into reality. Quite obviously, the IMEC is anchored on the old US geopolitical strategy of divide-and-rule in the Middle East. But the Western domination of the Middle East cannot be revived with the colonial era toolbox in the coming era of multipolarity

Community health workers in South Asia forge joint struggle for rights and recognition

Frontline health workers have issued a joint document calling on governments and international agencies to recognize and uphold their essential rights

Will India be able to deal with Google’s adtech monopoly?

Indian media houses and publishers are losing revenue due to Google’s monopoly. The present competition regime in India, along with the Digital Competition Act, seems inadequate to address the issue

Most refugees are victims of conflict, trying to escape Western wars Most refugees are victims of conflict, trying to escape Western wars

In June, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees or UNHCR said that the number of people displaced worldwide had reached a record 110 million. Behind these numbers are stories of men, women and children living with unbearable memories of being torn apart from their homes, families or lovers

Sí, podemos impedir que las patentes obstaculicen el tratamiento de la tuberculosis

Un día antes del Día Mundial de la Tuberculosis, la Oficina de Patentes de la India rechazó la solicitud del gigante farmacéutico Jannsen de prorrogar la patente del medicamento bedaquilina.

Carbon emissions No sign of cut in carbon emissions, 2022 set to touch record high

The current trend suggests that humanity would pump record-high carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, raising the temperature well above the 1.5-degree Celsius limit in just nine years

Russia energy exports Many reasons why price cap on Russian oil exports cannot work

The United States and its allies are trying to impose new restrictions on the Russian economy, but like attempts so far, this one too looks fated to fail