Who is the world’s most dominant manufacturing power? China or US?
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Women jailers in Byculla prison are getting infected with covid-19. Sudha Bharadwaj’s family express concern.

AGRO EMPIRE
Takeaway from United Nations Food Summit. Can it solve hunger pandemic?

When farmers are protesting in India against the corporate take over of food systems, United Nations is holding a Food Systems Summit in New York.

HUMAN RIGHTS
Six West Asian kingdoms run the darkest known network of modern-day mass slavery involving low-paid migrants who live through subhuman lives

RIVALRY ONLY ON PAPER?
After the Galwan Valley attack, instead of detaching itself from China, India increased its imports from the country

GRAPHIC STORY
A look at the world’s wealthiest women and how they compare – in one simple chart

KASHMIR 370
These words are the reminders that Kashmir is still a raging issue. Here are some excerpts from our reports after Empire Diaries visited ground zero in August 5 2019.

HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES
What is the protest all about? Here’s the story of a factory and a thousand tears

STAN SWAMY (1937-2021)
‘This is not a natural death, but the institutional murder of a gentle soul, committed by an inhuman state’

COLUMN/ WAR AND PEACE
Alan Macleod

FARMERS’ PROTEST
91 organisations working on digital rights of farmers present a detailed consultation paper

BIG TECH
By Raul Diego

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
The Microsoft founder is involved in a scientific experiment to halt global warming by partially stopping sunrays from reaching the Earth

CULTURE DIARIES
For six decades, he targeted imperialism with his distinct brand of protest songs, addressing war, oppression, injustice and human rights

A LESSER KNOWN STORY
The gritty environmentalist had fought hard to save Manali’s forests from a massive ski resort project funded by Alfred Brush Ford

FARMERS’ PROTEST
The protesters at Delhi’s borders have given an ultimatum, saying the movement will intensify if the government fails to respond

US-based IHME’s shocking numbers can’t be written off as scaremongering, given the crisis unfolding this year

Should Indians blindly trust the vaccine angels eager to ‘help’ them during the pandemic? The stance of the West is a big clue, and not a pleasant one

India’s protesting farmers thank people for the assembly poll outcome, vow to intensify movement

Will there be another full lockdown in India? Why are only two companies making all of India’s vaccines? Has the virus exposed democracy?

Protesters warn govt, ‘If you carry out ‘Operation Clean’, we will reply with ‘Operation Shakti’

“It is the responsibility of the citizens to save the constitution and the farmers from corporate clutches then only the constitution will be saved and our land and self-respect will be protected.”

To force the govt to ensure food security, Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of protesting farmers, is observing ‘FCI Bachao Divas’

GRAPHIC STORY
The roller-coaster ride of crude oil prices in the last 30 years

SPECIAL REPORT
Incident happened in the midst of a Mahapanchayat trail in Alwar, Rajasthan

SPECIAL REPORT
The grim story of one of the largest transfers of wealth from the Global South to the West in recent history

GRAPHIC STORY
To understand the power and privilege of the United States is to get this clear picture of how immensely and obnoxiously rich some American cities are in comparison to countries of the world

SPECIAL REPORT
From embassy properties to military bases, the pharma giant is asking for much more in return for coronavirus vaccine shipments than one can even imagine, finds a chilling investigation

GRAPHIC STORY
Gigantic international companies, not countries or kingdoms, are empires that run the modern world. Here’s a tell-tale illustration that shows how the biggest of them compare with each other

Tense events from the recent days of the farmers’ protest have brought back this old and uncomfortable question that remains unanswered

RECOLONISATION
A simple story they don’t tell you – of how and why thousands of profit-hungry MNCs or ’empires’ have captured India’s economy, leaving us as an ‘independent’ nation only in theory

The hooligans at US Capitol should learn from India’s farmers how to protest with decency. Just like we should unlearn that America is the world’s leading democracy

On September 3, a top court in San Francisco ruled that Edward Snowden was right, the American had acted unlawfully against its own people. Did you know about this epic judgment?

FARMERS’ MOVEMENT
For a group of gritty villagers from Rajatal near the Wagah crossing, life oscillates between one border and another

During a virtual talk, the renowned intellectual slammed the country for allowing its education system to drift away from science and reality

FARMERS’ MOVEMENT
Europe, Latin America are showing hope for India’s farmers

DEC 8TH BHARAT BANDH
Facing the spectacle of reforms, the country’s farmers and workers make their pain and presence felt in the country’s power corridors

EXCLUSIVE
There was a tense standoff at the Delhi-Haryana western border as police tried to stop the rights activist from reaching the protesters – but she dodged them and made it

Watch out for the govt’s divide-and-rule plan to weaken the farmers’ protest, warns the rights activist in an interview to EmpireDiaries.com

It’s only because the richest 1% in the world are ‘immune’ to hunger deaths that ‘the virus of poverty’ will never be seen as a critical threat to the human race

महाराष्ट्र के नंदुरबार जिले के चार स्कूलों ने पूरी दुनिया के लिए विकेंद्रीकृत शिक्षा में एक उदाहरण स्थापित कर रहा है।

Four schools in India’s Maharashtra consigned remote learning to the bin, setting an example in decentralised education for the entire world to follow

Empire Wars: China and Nepal are expected to jointly announce a new official height of the world’s highest peak

For schoolchildren, lockdown means no education. Empires are failing to tackle this crisis.

PART FIVE
Looking back at the valley after the revocation of Article 370

Confidential US intelligence dossier sheds new light on India-China relations during the 1950s

BIG TECH
By Colin Lecher

PART FOUR
Looking back at the valley after the revocation of Article 370

Bloodbath continues as more and more Indians are losing their livelihoods due to the pandemic and lockdowns

PART THREE
Looking back at the valley after the revocation of Article 370

PART TWO
Looking back at the valley after the revocation of Article 370

PART ONE
Looking back at the valley after the revocation of Article 370

India and Nigeria will be the two most populated countries by the end of the century, according to projections from a team of Seattle-based researchers

A chilling Oxfam report says globally 12,000 people could be dying every day out of hunger caused by the pandemic by the end of this year

India is a major buyer of ‘dirty gold’ from Dubai that comes from conflict-torn African countries

An alarming number of deaths in India from lightning strikes sheds light on a disturbing trend: how little we care when only our villagers die

As we mark the truth seeker’s 49th b’day, it is worth revisiting how Empire continues to snuff out real journalism

Virologists from University of Barcelona discover traces of the coronavirus in the city’s sewage samples from March 2019

Beijing possesses 320 N-weapons as against India’s 150 nukes as of last January

A 1996 agreement between India and China holds the key to a lot of questions