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The Supreme Court has “strongly disapproved” of the government’s “non-action” in providing rations to migrant workers and termed it “unpardonable”. However, in terms of tangible relief to workers, beyond chastising the government, the order is slightly disappointing.
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code has been touted as a game changer in the effort at resolution of bad debts of Indian banks. However, it has not been able to help banks recover the loans they have given to big corporates, who with impunity have just refused to service those liabilities.
The sharp drop in GDP is the largest in the country’s history – and even that may well underestimate the economic damage experienced by the poorest households.
The Dalits and Tribals of UP are mostly landless, low income and unemployed, which is the main reason for their social, economic and political backwardness. Successive governments of UP have not taken any measures to help these lowest sections of society; the BJP is worsening their situation.
During the peak of the second surge of the deadly killer virus in summer this year, when patients in several parts of India were literally gasping for breath, the situation in West Bengal was much better managed.
The threat of a declining Hindu population and growing minority numbers lacks a basis in logic and facts.
#PeriodTalk: High Time We Challenge the Secrecy Around Menstruation; Befriending Menstruation: A Feminist Revolution in Rural Gujarat.
A day after a judge of the Supreme Federal Court ordered a criminal investigation against Jair Bolsonaro in the Covaxin scandal, hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets in 350 cities and towns to protest against the government and demand that the president be impeached.
The United States Department of State is observing with great concern that movements in Latin America have begun to take place that go beyond its control and that could affect its system of regional domination.
European monuments to historic slavers and colonizers are the latest victims of rising protests for justice.
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Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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