India

In late March, India launched a rocket shooting down one of its satellites, proving it could preemptively “blind” the Pakistanis

Climate Change

Climate Crisis: Glacier Melt, Droughts, Floods require Indo-Pak Cooperation to Avoid Disaster

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By Omair Ahmad | – (The Third Pole) – With glacier retreat, permafrost melt, and extreme rainfall events, ICIMOD’s HIMAP report suggests that the countries of the Hindu Kush Himalayas have to start cooperating far more closely, or pay a huge price Water in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is going through large and […]

India

Right Wing Hindu Gov’t of India Strips 4 mn Muslims of Citizenship

AFP

Guwahati, India (AFP) – India on Monday effectively stripped four million people in Assam of citizenship, sparking fears of mass deportations of Muslims from the northeastern state. A new draft register of citizens includes only those able to prove they were in Assam before 1971, when millions fled Bangladesh’s war of independence into the state, […]

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“The Light of a Thousand Suns:” India has 5 of World’s largest Solar Farms, Plans Huger

Juan Cole

India intends to have 275 gigawatts of renewable capacity by 2027 and is counting on solar to provide two-thirds of it

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India stands with Iran against Trump Sanctions

Juan Cole

India’s External Affairs Minister delivered a sharp rebuke to US plans for sanctions on trade with Iran on Monday

Colonialism

British Empire’s hidden workings in India and Iran revealed in remarkable new film footage

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By Jonathan Westaway | The Conversation | – – In a basement office at the Royal Geographical Society in London’s South Kensington, grainy 16mm film footage flickers silently across the screen, one of over a hundred expeditionary and travel films digitised recently by the society and the British Film Institute. They are now free to […]

Coal

Oil & Coal & Crop Burning turn Delhi into ‘Gas Chamber’ of Air Pollution

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The Watchers | – – The Indian Medical Association declared a public health emergency on Tuesday, November 7, 2017, as toxic smog engulfed Indian capital Delhi. In some areas, Air Quality Index (AQI) reached a maximum of 999 and went beyond what instruments could measure. According to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the smoke-laden air […]

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Iran’s Khamenei to Putin: Isolate US by dumping the Dollar

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin visited Tehran on Wednesday for consultations with President Hassan Rouhani and the country’s clerical leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khamenei is quoted by Tahrir [Liberation] as saying that Russia and Iran could cooperate to isolate the United States and […]

Climate Change

Epic Mumbai Flooding: 21 million People told to stay Home

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India Today | (Video News Report) | – – “The water levels at many places receded in Mumbai, but the situation remains far from normal. The water levels are dipping across the city including worst affected areas like Dadar circle where the water had reached chest deep height. The weather man has predicted very heavy […]