Global Warming: Situation Is Getting Worse, More Worse, Dangerously Worse – Five Articles
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Global Warming: Situation Is Getting Worse, More Worse, Dangerously Worse – Five Articles

Buckle Up! The Arctic’s Sizzling; Greenland Ice Sheet Is Losing Ice Faster Than Forecast and Now Irreversibly Committed to At Least 10 Inches of Sea Level Rise; ‘Dangerous Heat Waves’ to be More Frequent and More Sustained in Near Future; Drought Has Become a Truly Planetary Disaster in 2022; Day of the Dead.

India’s Unemployment Crisis: The Distress Is Worse Than the Data Suggest
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India’s Unemployment Crisis: The Distress Is Worse Than the Data Suggest

Highly qualified candidates seeking low-level jobs, reduced wages, lower real incomes, worsening quality of employment, millions moving from salaried jobs to casual work—many things disguise unemployment in India.

How True Is the Health Minister’s Claim that India’s Doctor-Population Ratio Exceeds WHO Guidelines?

How True Is the Health Minister’s Claim that India’s Doctor-Population Ratio Exceeds WHO Guidelines?

Ayush doctors were included to inflate the number. Further, the country does not have accurate data on the number of practicing healthcare professionals. A 2021 study found that the density of active health workforce in India is just a little over one-fourth of the WHO’s recommended threshold of 44.5 skilled health workers per 10,000 population.

Increasing Threat to Federalism from Centrally Sponsored Schemes: States Need to Form a Federal Front
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Increasing Threat to Federalism from Centrally Sponsored Schemes: States Need to Form a Federal Front

Open letter to Chief Ministers calling upon them to form a federal front of the States to persuade the Centre not to proliferate Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSSs), and instead transfer existing CSSs with the associated fund allocations to the States.

Santhal Hul Wasn’t Just the First Anti-British Revolt, It Was Against All Exploitation
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Santhal Hul Wasn’t Just the First Anti-British Revolt, It Was Against All Exploitation

The 19th century rebellion actually began as a movement against exploitation by Indian ‘upper’ caste zamindars, moneylenders, merchants and police officials who had come to dominate the economic sphere of Santhal life.

How Marxists Brought Science to Politics and Politics to Science
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How Marxists Brought Science to Politics and Politics to Science

We need to understand the links between science, politics, and commercial interests. For Marxists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these were some of the most important questions to be addressed in their work. The cross-fertilization between Marxism and science had major implications for the development of both.