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Policy pressure on semiconductor firms to bypass the US export bans

The Collision of National Security and Market Forces in 2025 The year 2025 marked a definitive inflection point for the global semiconductor industry. It was the year when the theoretical friction between American national security interests and commercial market imperatives…

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Real estate liquidation crisis: Declassified internal reports from China and USA

The collapse of the commercial real estate market in late 2025 was not an accident of circumstance but a mathematical…

By Dispur Today

China

Digital Silk Road Corruption: Massive Anomalies In Belt and Road Digital Infrastructure Tenders

By early 2026, the Belt and Road Initiative had largely pivoted from concrete to code. The massive dams and railways…

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Digital Welfare Divide: Aadhaar-based Exclusion Killing India’s Poorest

India’s Aadhaar digital ID was sold as a tool to deliver faster, cleaner social welfare and yet it resulted in a digital welfare divide. By 2021, a staggering 1.4 billion residents were enrolled,…

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The Invisible Women: How Domestic Workers In India Are Exploited And Abused without rights

Image: A child domestic worker washing dishes in India. Millions of women and girls toil as home helpers – often unseen and unprotected by law (Photo by Biswarup Ganguly, CC…

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Shocking Urban Slum Fire Evictions: Bastis on Fire Exposes Disturbing Pattern

India’s booming cities are under siege not only from rapid development but also from a disturbing pattern of urban slum fire evictions. In recent years, a spate of sudden, large-scale fires…

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Disturbing Findings: Private School Caste Discrimination Exposed in India’s Admissions

For millions of Indian families, admission to a private school is a ticket to quality education and opportunity. The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE, 2009)…

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Dalit Atrocities Tracker: Why India Still Sees a Dalit Murder or Rape Every Day and Nobody is Convicted

Despite the implementation of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act (PoA Act) in 1989 and its subsequent amendments, caste-based violence remains rampant in India. Dalit communities…

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The Hidden Threat of Data Brokers: How American Consumers Are Profiled, Packaged, and Sold

In the digital age, our personal information has become a valuable commodity. Data brokers, operating behind the scenes, are collecting, analyzing, and packaging vast amounts of consumer data, often without…

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Terror of Disability Rights in India: Systematically Undermined, Rattled and Broken by Bureaucracy

India’s Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act 2016 aims to empower disabled individuals by expanding the list of recognized disabilities from seven to 21 and mandating a 5% reservation…

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Tribal Land Evictions: An Investigative Timeline of Tribal Land Evictions from India And Other Lands Without Justice

The Silent War on Tribal Land Evictions The Hasdeo Aranya forest, spanning 1,700 square kilometers across Chhattisgarh, India, is home to over 5,000 Gond and Oraon tribal people. In 2022,…

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Manual Scavenging in India: The Government’s Denial vs Hard-Hitting Ground Reality

Manual scavenging, the inhumane practice of manually cleaning, carrying, and disposing of human excreta, persists in India despite multiple legal bans and judicial directives. In 2025, the Supreme Court once…

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India’s Broken Quota System: How Reserved Categories Still Face Discrimination in Top Institutions – A Hard-Hitting Investigation

The quota system, also known as the reservation system in India, has been a significant policy aimed at addressing historical caste-based inequality and promoting social equity. However, over the years,…

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Digital India Surveillance Threat: How Governance Became a Privacy Risk

India’s “Digital India” revolution promised efficiency, inclusion, and transparency. It built a sprawling infrastructure: a unique biometric ID (Aadhaar) for over a billion people, digital document wallets (DigiLocker), a national…

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Child Malnutrition: India’s Failing Battle Against Child Hunger

Despite decades of high economic growth and numerous government schemes, child malnutrition rates in India remain among the world’s worst. The latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5, 2019–21) shows 35.5% of under‑5…

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Banking on the Brink: India’s NPA Crisis and the Shadow of Political Cronyism

In recent years, the NPA crisis in Indian public sector banks has dominated headlines and boardrooms alike. A century of public banking, once a pillar of India’s growth, now lies under scrutiny…

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The Underbelly of Ujjwala LPG Scheme: Rural Women Bear the Real Cost of the Free LPG Scheme

The promise of the Ujjwala LPG Scheme Yojana was simple yet powerful: free LPG connections and cylinders for poor rural women, ending the drudgery of wood stoves. But in villages…

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Vanishing Forests: Compensatory Afforestation Fraud Is Killing India’s Green Cover

India’s vanishing forests are shrinking in real time, even as millions of dollars meant to replace them vanish into bureaucratic black holes. In theory, every hectare of forest razed for…

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The Missing Billions: How India’s Electoral Bonds Scheme Changed Political Funding Forever

The electoral bonds scheme – introduced in 2018 and scrapped by India’s Supreme Court in February 2024 – transformed political fundraising. Suddenly, individuals and companies could donate crores of rupees anonymously to…

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Democracy for Sale: How Dark Money Corrupted America’s Political Soul

In the summer of 2019, Congress raced to finalize a bipartisan bill to end the scourge of “surprise” medical bills – unexpected, sky-high charges for hospital care that had outraged…

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Pandemic Profiteers: The Corrupt Contracts That Deepened U.S. Inequality

During the COVID-19 crisis, as hospitals filled and unemployment soared, a handful of well-connected corporations and insiders reaped staggering profits. Critics have dubbed these big winners “pandemic profiteers,”warning that their gains…

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Wagner Mutiny: Inside the Dreadful 2023 Armed Revolt That Shook the Kremlin

The June 2023 Wagner Mutiny by Russia’s Wagner private army stunned the Kremlin and the world. Wagner fighters under Yevgeny Prigozhin seized Rostov-on-Don and rolled hundreds of kilometers toward Moscow.…

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The Poisoned Trail: Alexei Navalny’s Tragic Life on the Front Lines

Alexei Navalny emerged in the 2000s as an energetic crusader against corruption in Russia. A former lawyer and online blogger, he founded the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and used social media…

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