Ranvir Nayar
Managing Director & Founder at Media India Group
Google & Facebook face anti-trust heat across globe
December 17, 2020
Few had imagined the scenario even five years ago, but the seemingly invincible Big Tech firms Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple are all facing the heat of competition authorities across the globe as government regulators finally wake up to the threats to a fair and free market ...
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Reliance unnerved by farmers’ calls for boycott
December 15, 2020
It was less than a week ago that protesting farmers launched a boycott of Reliance Jio and began throwing their Jio SIM cards away as a sign of protest against one of the companies that they believe are likely to gain at their cost due to the recently enacted farm laws. There wer...
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Brexit agreement remains cliffhanger
December 12, 2020
When Boris Johnson left for Brussels on Thursday for a dinner meeting with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, both knew that they would have a lot more than just the dinner to chew over as it was the ‘last chance’ to break the deadlock over Brexit ...
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Farmers reject government proposal, to intensify stir
December 10, 2020
Nearly two weeks after they began their sit in at borders of Delhi and exasperated with fruitless talks with the central government, leaders of various farmers’ organisations have announced a series of measures to intensify their movement, soon after they rejected latest draft ...
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Not enough progress on net zero carbon emissions
December 8, 2020
A number of nations, including the European Union, Japan and the United Kingdom, have already announced new & more ambitious targets for carbon emissions targets agreed to in Paris. India looks well poised to do the same. But it’s unlikely to slow down global warming or arrest ...
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Celebrations over economic revival in India premature
December 2, 2020
“Q2 GDP at -7.5 pc buttresses recovery as captured by several high frequency indicators,” tweeted India’s finance ministry on November 27 while releasing data about the state of the economy in second quarter of the fiscal year 2020-21. Since then, numerous ministers and pol...
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Rejecting Amit Shah’s offer of talks, reinforcements join protesting farmers at Delhi border
November 30, 2020
The farmers unions unanimously rejected on Sunday union home minister Amit Shah’s offer of holding talks provided the farmers moved to Burari as a protest site. “Shah’s offer was conditional and it has been rejected after a meeting of the coordination committee of over 500 ...
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Missed vaccinations may make children worst victims of Covid
November 29, 2020
Earlier this month, an alarming report was published by the World Health Organisation and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report said that measles cases surged globally in 2019, reaching highest levels in 23 years, while deaths caused by the high...
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On 71st Constitution Day, Indian Constitution lies mutilated beyond recognition
November 26, 2020
As India marks 71st Constitution Day, Rajratna Ambedkar, President of Buddhist Society of India and great grandnephew Dr B R Ambedkar, the architect of the Constitution, says the document at the foundation of Indian democracy faces an existential challenge as Ambedkar’s teachin...
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Developed world way ahead in jobs of future
November 25, 2020
Though the global economy as a whole is down on its knees due to the coronavirus pandemic, the year-long crisis has hit the poor and developing nations much harder than the rich ones. There have been numerous reports of how the inequality has risen sharply at a global, regional, ...
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Crashing prices, low demand to hit India’s solar power ambitions
November 24, 2020
At the latest round of auctions of solar power projects held by the Solar Energy Corporation of India, record lows were touched as bidders tried to grab the projects of 1070 mw that were up for the taking. Two international bidders, one each from Saudi Arabia and Singapore, quote...
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French journalists on streets against Macron’s law
November 23, 2020
French media houses are up in arms over the new law passed by the French Parliament last week which bans publication of photographs of police personnel on duty.
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