Ranvir Nayar
Managing Director & Founder at Media India Group
Green energy supply must double in 8 years to curb global warming, warns WMO
October 12, 2022
A new multi-agency report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns that unless the supply of electricity from clean energy sources is doubled between now and 2030, there is a risk that climate change, more extreme weather and water stress will undermine our energy sec...
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India needs to stop whining over Jammu & Kashmir
October 11, 2022
In some senses, Pakistan has scored some brownie points against India in rapid succession. On October 4, the United States Ambassador David Blome undertook an unusually high-profile and rare visit to Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, meeting with the ‘Prime Minister’...
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Police, administration & ruling party play dandiya with the law
October 7, 2022
While the policemen in Kheda district of Gujarat who created a kangaroo court and delivered ‘instant justice’ by flogging 10 Muslims who had allegedly pelted stones at a Garba event are certainly guilty and should be tried for violation of various laws, a share of guilt also ...
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US climate change bill is not good news for India
August 16, 2022
On Friday, sticking to the party line, the United States House of Representatives handed President Joe Biden a major victory by passing 220-207 a bill that would see unprecedented expense on climate change, while boosting healthcare and raising corporate taxes to finance p...
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Calls to boycott Chinese product hurt India more than China
August 11, 2022
A news report says that a chartered flight China Southern Airlines with 107 Indian traders on board left from New Delhi and landed in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province on Tuesday. The report goes on to say that this particular group was the largest group of Indians to ha...
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World set to miss adult education SDG targets
July 1, 2022
Nations around the world have committed to eradicating adult illiteracy as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of providing education for all by the year 2030. However, with barely eight years to go, even as the world struggles with bringing children’s educa...
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Demolition of protestors’ homes: Bulldozing freedom & laws
June 15, 2022
The demolition of the homes of activist Javed Mohammad and some persons who protested in Allahabad against the insult of Prophet Muhammad by two spokespersons of the Bharatiya Janata Party is not only in violation of all rules but is also entirely illegal, say legal experts. They...
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BJP’s Islamophobia boomerangs as Islamic nations seek apology
June 6, 2022
It is a sight that few in India, leave alone the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, would have expected to see in a country that has been very friendly to India for the past several decades, ever since the two established diplomatic relations. Photographs of Indian Prime Minister Nar...
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From Quad Summit to China: India must stop doing Biden’s bidding
May 25, 2022
The fourth Quad Summit, second in-person, has ended in Japanese capital Tokyo on a predictable note, with more intensive targetting of China, especially for its aggressive misadventures in the Indo-Pacific region. Though the leaders of the four member nations, United States Presi...
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20 years on, African Union has failed Africa
May 24, 2022
The last two years have not been very kind to Africa. It is not just the Covid-19 pandemic, which of course hit the continent hard. Vaccination rates across the continent continue to languish well below the world average and many African nations have managed to vaccinate only a f...
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India turns to King Coal again as heatwaves lead to power demand surge
May 16, 2022
Last week, Indian government said it was reviving mining from 100 coal mines that had been shut down earlier as they were not financially viable. However, with a severe coal shortage looming large over the country, leading to a massive mismatch between power demand and supply jus...
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Unbridled inflation in India continues to race ahead
April 18, 2022
Few would have been surprised by the news today that inflation in India has risen again in March, because it was expected that inflation would keep rising. But what caught most analysts and bankers off guard was the extent to which inflation had raced ahead as the government says...
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