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The West Africa Peoples Organisation has welcomed the proposal for greater collaboration between Burkina Faso, Mali, and Guinea, and has called for coordinating and planning production, trade, infrastructure, economic development, and defence.
The Alí Primera and Hugo Chávez communards of Venezuela tell the story of their struggle for land and its deep historical roots.
An excerpt from the book ‘Mystics and Sceptics : In Search of Himalayan Masters’, edited by Namita Gokhale.
When the first modern humans arose in East Africa sometime between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, we – meaning people of our species, Homo sapiens – were only one of several types of humans (or hominins) that simultaneously existed on Earth.
On the acts of courage, which symbolised the syncretic heritage of the subcontinent, amid the communal savagery that marked the Partition of India.
Interview with journalists Ravi Nair and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta on the much talked about Rafale deal, the many unanswered questions related to it, the scrapping of a previous deal, and the unilateral decision of the Prime Minister in this matter. Excerpts from their interview to Frontline.
It’s been 40 years since over 2,000 Muslims were slaughtered in Assam’s Nellie town. The ghosts of Nellie continue to haunt India even today every time we overlook an incident of hate speech or let perpetrators of violence to go scot-free.
In 2002, there must have been ministers that thought K. Subrahmanyam – who was well over 70 at the time – had been ‘vicious’ in calling a democratically chosen leader an ‘asura’. Mercifully, none of them attacked him for being old.
A recent order of the Ministry of Rural Development has created a situation where a majority of NREGA workers cannot be paid. Also: NREGA Sangharsh Morcha’s open letter to the Ministry of Rural Development, refuting the ministry’s recent claims on the status of the MGNREGA Scheme.
Seattle made history Tuesday as the first city in the U.S. to expressly ban caste-based discrimination after an outpouring of input from South Asian Americans.
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