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TopicParadise Papers

Topic: Paradise Papers

The Omidyar Network: ‘Committed to a free media’, via two Indian companies too

The Omidyar Network, which has been mentioned in the Paradise Papers revelations, has invested in the websites Scroll.in and Newslaundry.com.

Global Pulse: Paradise Papers far cry from Panama Papers; Japan and USA pledge to “make alliance great again”

The Paradise Papers are not as devious as the notorious Panama Papers; the fifth meeting between Shinzo Abe and Trump promises to "make alliance great again"; and Mohammad bin Salman is set on the path to an absolute monarchy. 

R.K. Sinha: Pillar of Bihar BJP faces Paradise Papers heat

Rajya Sabha MP R.K. Sinha is the founder of private security major SIS, and has been associated with politics since the days of the JP movement in Bihar.

Paradise Papers: An exercise of naming & shaming, without even saying what the shame is

It suggests to the Indian mind that there are individuals who are pursuing wealth for the sake of wealth; and in the process, throwing in names of two sons of politicians.

Paradise Papers: Parking money in tax havens biggest threat to democracy in the world

In most cases, funds were siphoned from domestic companies to offshore tax havens by over-invoicing and under-invoicing, through intermediary shell companies .

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.