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The Big Decline: Sales of Biscuits, Briefs and Bikes Have All Dropped
13 Sep 2019
Economists and business heads are wondering if it’s time to use the dreaded R-word: Recession.
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What Do Skeletal Remains at Rakhigarhi Tell Us?
10 Sep 2019
NewsClick Editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha speaks to scientist Satyajit Rath about the skeletal remains found at Rakhigarhi and the politics around genetic research in South Asia.
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Chandrayaan-2: Lander Fails But Not Everything's Lost
07 Sep 2019
Minutes before touching the surface of the moon, communication from lander Vikram to ground stations was lost.
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Amazon Fires, Bolsonaro’s White Nationalism and Crony Capitalism
07 Sep 2019
The Right only denies global warming because its climate ‘science’ has ceded before capitalists.
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West Asia: Cheap Drones and Shifting Strategic Balance
30 Aug 2019
In both Yemen and Lebanon’s case, the Houthis and Hezbollah are showing that strategic balance is not parity or winning, but inflicting damage while retaining the ability to fight.
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RBI Surplus Transfer: Moving People's Money from One Pocket to Another
29 Aug 2019
In order to disguise financing of government spending that does not appear in the formal Budget, the government is moving Rs 1.76 lakh crore from Reserve Bank of India to its own pocket.
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Is Revocation of Art. 370 a Distraction from the Country's Economic Crisis?
07 Aug 2019
Auto sales and capital goods have taken a dip and unemployment is on the rise, industry leaders are being asked by the government to refrain from talking about the economy.
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Remembering Hiroshima with Our Doomsday Clock at Two Minutes to Midnight-Replug
06 Aug 2019
The US has never agreed to commit to a no-first use pledge; or not attacking countries without a UN mandate.
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Hacking Elections: Tales From Far and Near
02 Aug 2019
The Netflix film, The Great Hack, focuses on Cambridge Analytica and the Trump elections, and also registers the role of a global right-wing network in influencing elections using big money and their…
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Gunboat Diplomacy in the Straits of Hormuz
29 Jul 2019
The US plans for a naval armada in Hormuz will run against the Laws of Seas and Iran’s sovereignty over its territorial waters. We are now sleepwalking to a new war in the region with disastrous…