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General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - May 2, 2019
Reforming Pakistan’s madrasas
Pakistan’s military announces plans to bring the country’s madrasas under government control. Why should Pakistan regulate its madrasas? Madrasas are Islamic seminaries, known in Pakistan as Madaris-…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Apr 27, 2019
Sturgeon calls for Scottish Referendum 2.0
Scotland should hold a new referendum on independence from the United Kingdom by 2021 if Britain leaves the European Union, said the Scottish leader, Nicola Sturgeon. The question remains, is…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Apr 27, 2019
Japan apologises to victims of forced sterilisation
Twenty years after Japan repealed the eugenics law, it has agreed to compensate victims of the government program under which thousands of people were forcibly sterilized because of intellectual…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Apr 24, 2019
Do Better with Less: Frugal Innovation to Sustainable Growth
The Synergia Foundation hosted a Harvard Business School Club of India conversation with Prof. Jaideep Prabhu and Navi Radjou on April 16, 2019. Also in attendance were Sajju Jain - Founder of Impact…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Apr 23, 2019
Violence returns to Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s government has blamed local jihadist group National Thowheed Jamath for one of Asia’s deadliest terrorist attacks in years and said other nations had shared intelligence ahead of the…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Apr 17, 2019
Measles incidence increases worldwide
Measles cases increases by 300% worldwide, spurred on by anti-vaccination campaigns, supply chain issues and conflict. A vaccine is a biological concoction that provides acquired immunity to a…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Apr 13, 2019
Deeper EU-China cooperation in the near future?
Given pre-summit tensions, the release of a statement and commitment to a timetable for developing a monitoring mechanism is an achievement. Concessions made by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang are…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Apr 5, 2019
US award grants to anti-abortion clinics
President Donald Trump’s administration announced that it would award family planning grant to a chain of crisis centres that oppose abortion and don’t offer contraceptives. Abortion is the…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Apr 4, 2019
Drug prices balloon in the US
Some drug prices have increased significantly in the first three months of 2019. The rise comes amidst intense attention on the American pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceutical industry as we…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Apr 3, 2019
Turkey out of F-35 program?
The United States has suspended Turkey’s participation in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet program until Ankara cancels its planned purchase of a sophisticated Russian air defence system, the…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 30, 2019
Trump veto stands
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday failed to override President Donald Trump’s first veto, leaving in place the “national emergency” he declared last month to build a U.S.-Mexico border…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 20, 2019
Economists criticize data misuse
Top economists and social scientists studying India have published an open letter expressing alarm at the politicisation of economic data by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, highlighting…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 20, 2019
Kabul’s expanding ‘green zone’
The ‘Green Zone’ in Kabul is the walled-off compound of embassies and newsrooms, which is set to expand dramatically. It already imposes extreme limitations on its sheltered residents and stokes…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 20, 2019
Wayfinding in Times of Change
The Synergia Foundation in collaboration with the Government of Karnataka (GoK) organised a roundtable discussion on “Wayfinding in Times of Change” by Kenneth Mikkelsen on March 13, 2019. The event…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 20, 2019
Slovakia elections underway
Zuzana Caputova, an anti-corruption lawyer who entered politics only a year ago, comfortably won the first round of Slovakia’s presidential election, the first such election since the country was…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 19, 2019
Anti-Vaccination Movement
Vaccination skeptics have stated that the U.S Government is working with pharmaceutical companies in order to stop them. The government is also hiding the truth on how vaccinations kill hundreds of…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 10, 2019
Phillip Morris circumvents investment ban
Phillip Morris International Inc. (PMI) has been paying for the manufacturing costs of Marlboro cigarettes in India circumventing a nine-year-old ban on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the tobacco…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 8, 2019
Microplastic scourge spreads
According to new studies by the University of Exeter, microplastic pollution spans the world, showing contamination in UK’s lake and rivers, in groundwater in the US, along the Yangtze river in China…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 7, 2019
Burundi closes human rights office
Burundi has forced the United Nations to shut its local human rights office after 23 years, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said. Burundi is a landlocked country amid the…
General Interest - Analyses & Assessments - Mar 6, 2019
Cure for AIDS?
A stem-cell treatment put a London cancer patient’s HIV into remission, marking the second such reported case and reinvigorating efforts to cure the AIDS-causing infection that afflicts some 37…