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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The triumph of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez, candidates of the Historic Pact, for President and Vice President, in the second round of the Colombian presidential elections is an extraordinary victory, with not only national but also continental projections.
The apex court judgment on Zakia Jafri’s plea has made the victims of the alleged state-sponsered violence lonely, threatening them against seeking the help of human rights workers; Also: “Zakia Jafri’s Case is Reminder of How the Guilty of Gujarat Subverted Law” – by Teesta Setalvad
Uttar Pradesh has found a new weapon to deal with the violators who pose a challenge to the authority of the state namely, the Bulldozer! It is difficult to find an example anywhere in the world barring the sole exception of Israel where the government is in constant conflict with the Palestinian population.
A cost-cutting measure initiated by stealth, the scheme could transform the world’s second-largest military into a rag-tag force of intern soldiers.
Several industry leaders have offered jobs to Agniveers. The question is, how many ex-servicemen have they employed in the past in their respective corporate houses. The Modi govt. too has promised them jobs in govt departments – but it has not filled the posts reserved for them so far. Also: Farmers and workers join youth protesting Agnipath scheme.
The Dakshin Railway Employees Union (DREU) has said that the launch of Bharat Gaurav Trains is an ominous sign of total privatisation of the Railways in the years to come – as it will lead to a complete dry up of railway revenues.
Even as Droupadi Murmu is set to become the country’s first president to emerge from a tribal community, Adivasis in Odisha – her home state – continue to face the brunt of a brutal repression for their opposition to a steel plant in Dhinkia.
Trained practitioners warn an unregulated Yoga scenario is making people ill. The Indian government is aware – yet continues to postpone regulation.
In the June parliamentary elections, while the right-of-center government of President Macron’s Together! bloc failed to win a majority in the National Assembly, winning 245 of 577 seats, a leftwing coalition, NUPES, took a surprising second place, with 131 seats.
Three journalists – Julian Assange, Alina Lipp and Anne-laure Bonnel – are paying a high price for telling the truth in the West: financial suffocation, censorship, threats and imprisonment, and even physical and psychological torture in the case of Assange. They illustrate the reality of “democracy” in the West.
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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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