the Enforcement Directorate, the Central Bureau Investigation and the Serious Fraud Investigation Office are silent. The overwhelming signal that the Adani imbroglio sends to international investors is that India lacks effective regulatory mechanisms. Bharat Bhushan The Indian government will not remain untouched by the slide of Gautam Adani. This is evident from the video appearance… Read More Will India remain untouched by the slide of Adani?
Opposition parties on Sunday stepped up their attack on the Modi government over the Adani issue, with the Congress alleging that its “silence smacks of collusion”. Ahead of the party’s planned nationwide protests on Monday, Congress General Secretary (Communications) Jairam Ramesh said they will pose three questions a day to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over… Read More Opposition raises pitch on Adani issue; Congress to launch nationwide protests on Monday
The climate crisis offers a new angle from which to evaluate US dollar hegemony, since carbon emissions are tied to economic activity. Daniel Driscoll Amidst the turbulence of the Second World War, hundreds of delegates from the Allied Nations met in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire to construct a post-war economic system. While it might strike… Read More The Dollar and Climate
Aidan McQuade Theresa May, both as home secretary and prime minister, pushed for the UK to become a global leader in the international struggle against contemporary forms of slavery. Her vision was always a blurred one, in which she somehow reconciled championing the 2015 Modern Slavery Act alongside prosecuting victims of human trafficking for the… Read More Anti-strike bill: a step toward forced labour in the UK?
by Yorgos Mitralias The international media may say hardly a word, but that does not mean that these days France is not being shaken by the biggest social eruption of the last several decades! In particular, on Tuesday January 31st the demonstrations against Macron’s pension reform were the most massive in the country for 30 years (a total of… Read More France: towards a social explosion of historic proportions!
The upheaval rocking the Adani business empire is one of the dramatic global developments of the last week. I was delighted that The Wire saw fit to pick up and republish Chartbook #190. I’ve long harbored a secret ambition to join the ranks of the Wire-wallahs. Cam and I also featured the Adani story on the Pod… Read More Adam Tooze: Indian nation-building, Modi and Adani / Mihir Sharma: What Worries Indians About Adani’s Empire
डाउ जोन्स की सस्टेनेबिलिटी इंडेक्स से अदाणी बाहर | Adani dropped off Dow Jones’ Sustainable Index #ravishkumar #ravishkumarofficial #adani #dowjones #stockmarket #latestnews #news #bjp #lic #sbi #sebi #adanipower #sharemarket #sharemarketnews #hindenburgreport #adaniFPO #hindenburgresearch #sensex #nifty #nifty50 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0yX… Jairus Banaji: Indian Big Business
First posted June 19, 2016 Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism by Judy Wajcman Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age by Bernard E. Harcourt Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art by Virginia Heffernan Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Mood and… Read More In the Depths of the Digital Age: Edward Mendelson reviews five books on psychological life in the age of the internet / We Are Hopelessly Hooked: Jacob Weisberg
Moustafa Bayoumi Who remembers how, in 2018 and just days before the deadliest attack on Jewish people in US history, a prominent US politician tweeted: “We cannot allow Soros, Steyer, and Bloomberg to BUY this election!”? The tweet was widely – and correctly – understood as dangerously antisemitic, particularly heinous in a period of rising anti-Jewish… Read More America’s Republicans have a serious antisemitism problem. It isn’t Ilhan Omar
“What Trump has done is quite arguably the worst crime against the United States that a president could commit.” Martin Pengelly in New York The conservative judge who convinced Mike Pence he could not overturn the 2020 election has predicted “the beginning of the end of Donald Trump” – the former president who incited the January 6 insurrection… Read More Judge who told Pence not to overturn election predicts ‘beginning of end of Trump’
After the truth-shower 