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It is indisputable that the Modi government has turbocharged the use of the money laundering law. In the decade between 2004-’14, the ED carried out 112 searches in the course of investigating money laundering cases. In the next eight years, this number shot up by 26 times to 2,974 searches.
A year ago, on 5 July 2021, when Father Stan Swamy left us, the world mourned the death of a great human being who epitomised compassion, courage, collaboration and commitment!
The author, along with Lingaraj and Sudarsan Pradhan, had accompanied Medha Patkar to ascertain the reports on repression on people opposing the Jindal Steel and other projects in Dhinkia, near Paradip, Odisha. His brief report.
Gig workers, such as food delivery riders and app-based cab drivers, are increasingly becoming one of the most visible faces of urban employment. This article discusses various aspects of the nature of employment in the gig economy, especially for those who can be referred to as ‘blue collar’ gig workers.
As we observe World Food Safety Day on June 7, it is important to remind ourselves that while there are several threats to food safety, the most serious one come from the very high-powered, relentless efforts to promote GM crops and foods.
Processes unleashed since August 2019 are bearing fruit that favour BJP, not Kashmiris or the Pandit community, who are vigorously challenging Right-Wing communalism. Also: Yasin Malik Could Have Been the Muivah of Kashmir.
Press Release, 28/04/2022: We would like to invite your attention to the untold miseries and sufferings of people in Dhinkia which has been targeted for an integrated steel plant by Sajan Jindal’s JSW a few years after POSCO was driven out of the same soil.
None of the Centre’s explanations for the coal and power shortages hit the mark. The government took no preventive steps though the severity of this crisis was long foretold. The real culprits are its notion of what constitutes power sector ‘reforms’ and lack of inter-ministerial coordination.
Dear Stan, today, 26 April, is your earthly birthday! We are celebrating fond memories of you, thanking God for the gift of you to this earth and her people, and above all trying to see in what ways we can internalise and actualise the rich legacy we have inherited from you!
He is an undertrial, implicated under falsified charges under the draconian UAPA. At the age of 72 years, when people need to be cared for by their children, and be surrounded by their families, Anand and my struggles are entirely different. And all this merely on the basis of a story presented by the NIA to the court, the facts of which are pending verification.
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