Category Archive: Economy

Turbulent times for Air India

Prerna Suri, Al Jazeera’s correspondent based out of New Delhi, reports from across the region. All Gertrude Ingerberg wants is to go back home. The 60-year-old German national came to India a few… Read More

Supreme Court’s Order Seeking Compliance with UN’s Basel Convention Welcomed

  New Delhi 10/05/2012: ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA) welcomes the order of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice J. Chelameswar bench of Supreme Court in the matter of a US hazardous end-of-life vessel named ‘Oriental… Read More

Entry of ex US ship Oriental Nicety (ex Exxon Valdez) in Indian waters

Entry of ex US ship Oriental Nicety (ex Exxon Valdez) in Indian waters not permissible without prior decontamination Ministry of Defence Should Probe Hazardous Wastes Trade & Movement of End-of-Life Ships in Indian… Read More

From Ultra-leftist isolation to Laal: A personal reflection

Taimur Rahman is an academic, political activist and the lead musician of Laal Band of Pakistan. He is based in Lahore. For details, visit the band’s site. इस लेख को हिंदी में यहाँ… Read More

You Can Be A Patriot or a Profiteer, But You Can’t Be Both

Robert Greenwald is a producer, director, political activist, and Brave New Films founder and president. Co-authored by Derrick Crowe. This week, the three military contractors that do the most business with the Pentagon… Read More

Billionaires to mine cosmic riches

John Terrett is Al Jazeera’s US correspondent. A group of US billionaires is planning a daring space mission to extract fuel and precious metals from asteroids as they whiz past Earth at millions… Read More

Why Arab women still ‘have no voice’

  Amal Mohammed Al-Malki is Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, where she teaches courses in writing composition, postcolonial literature, theories of translation, and world English. She is… Read More

Hunger grips Yemen’s children

Jane Ferguson is an Al Jazeera journalist. The whole team was shocked. We knew we were looking for evidence of child hunger, but we never expected skeletal babies – close to death. Yemen… Read More

Reaping harvest of happiness

G Krishna Prasad is the founder director of Sahaja Samrudha, a grassroots-level organisation involving organic farmers and seed savers. In this article, he tells how farmers in Karnataka are showing the way to… Read More

एक फिल्मकार की राष्ट्रपति से अपील

To read/download the letter in English, click here. सेवा में, महामहिम श्रीमति प्रतिभा देवीसिंह पाटिल, राष्ट्रपति, भारत गणराज्य, राष्ट्रपति भवन, नई दिल्ली. विषय: 59 वें राष्ट्रीय फिल्म पुरस्कार समारोह में पुरस्कृत फिल्म ‘बोम’… Read More

What’s the Difference Between Fox News and Oxford University Press?

Frances Moore Lappé just released EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think to Create the World We Want (Nation Books) on the fortieth anniversary of her Diet for a Small Planet. Eighteen months ago… Read More