Students from 1,600 Cities Protest Climate Change
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Students from 1,600 Cities Protest Climate Change

Hundreds of thousands of students around the world walked out of their schools and colleges Friday in the latest in a series of strikes urging action to address the climate crisis. According to event organisers Fridays for Future, over 1664 cities across 125 countries registered strike actions, with more expected to report turnouts in the…

The Billionaire Beneficiaries of BJP’s Schemes
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The Billionaire Beneficiaries of BJP’s Schemes

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s numerous schemes meant for ordinary Indians—farmers, youth, women and others—have received a great deal of publicity from the government and a fair amount of criticism from the public for their failure. Yet, there is one highly successful scheme of the BJP government under PM Narendra Modi, that has not…

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Hamid Ansari, Jinnah’s Portrait and Turmoil in AMU

Recently (May 2018) Hamid Ansari, the ex-Vice President of India, was invited to Aligarh Muslim University to be honoured with life membership of AMU Students Union (AMUSU). He had due security with him, yet Hindu Yuva Vahini–ABVP activists managed to come close to his place of stay. The armed protesters alleged that a portrait of…