Modi Promised So Much But Science Has Stagnated on His Watch
There is little reason to believe that a third term for Modi will result in the revival of Indian scientific research and innovation.
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Modi’s Scheme to Double Farmers’ Income Goes on Overdrive During Elections, Stalls Otherwise
PM AASHA, a crop price support scheme, saw real spending only in the months around 2019 and 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Three years in between the two general elections, the government did not spend a single rupee on the scheme.
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Accreditation of NHRC Deferred for Third Time: A Major Setback for India
The Sub Committee of Accreditation of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions decided to defer the accreditation of India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC-India) for the second consecutive year.
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Tamil Nadu Has Led the Fight Against the BJP and the Modi Model
Building on an inclusive Dravidian politics, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has provided leadership to the opposition alliance countering the Bharatiya Janata Party, and Tamil Nadu has shown a better path for India’s development.
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The Nehru Development Model
The Nehru-Mahalanobis strategy as interpreted on the basis of an alternative framework constitutes, to this day, the core of any genuine anti-imperialist and pro-people development strategy in an economy such as India’s.
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The Untold ICC Story
Even the most optimistic of political analysts did not expect that the International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor would be uttering these words: “I have reasonable grounds to believe that Benjamin Netanyahu (…) and Yoav Gallant (…) bear criminal responsibility for (…) war crimes and crimes against humanity …”
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Electoral Outcome Means a Worrying Future for South Africa
Although there are still many votes to be counted the broad outlines of the South African election are clear. With massive unemployment, high rates of violence, collapsing services such as water, electricity and roads as well as brazen corruption, it is not surprising that people are turning away from the party of national liberation.
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Everyone’s Favorite Authoritarian State
Singapore is in reality a police state, which maintains a highly repressive and effective police apparatus, that enforces with a heavy hand a strict and conformist society with a sterile consumer culture despite its ethnic diversity.
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The Resistible Rise of the Far Right in Europe
In France, the far right is likely to be the leading political force in the European elections of 9 June 2024, and probably the second (or third) force in the European Union. A relatively large number of far right parties are now on the winning side in national elections, and are even taking part in national governments.
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Tens Of Thousands of Rape Victims Became Pregnant in States with Abortion Bans in the U.S., Finds Study
Researchers estimated there may have been more than 64,500 pregnancies resulting from rape in the 14 states that have enacted near-total abortion bans since ‘Roe v. Wade’ was overturned in 2022, according to a research letter published in the journal ‘JAMA Internal Medicine’.
