Environmental Injustice in India: Jaduguda Uranium Mining Cluster
Adivasis have been and are being sacrificed in the union government’s uranium mining and processing projects in the State of Jharkhand.
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India, US are on Pathway to Contain China
The big picture is that after audaciously claiming the mantle of leadership of the Global South as recently as in September, in a span of over two months, India is gliding over to the American camp as the US’ indispensable ally, even aspiring to be a “global defence hub” with Pentagon’s help.
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The NEP Goes Against the Existing Constitutional Mandate of the RTE
Its centralised focus on state examinations even in grades 3, 5 and 8 in addition to the board examinations in grades 10 and 12 runs contrary to the RTE. Also: extract from: ‘Reads Like an Impressive Wish List But Barters Right to Education’.
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India’s Renewed Biofuels Push to Disrupt Agriculture, Worsen Inequality
Can a country ranked 101 out of 116 on the World Hunger Index talk about a surplus it can use to make biofuels?
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India’s Armed Forces: Ill-Effects of Politicisation
Soldiers promoting government schemes is unambiguously political activity. Government would do well to cease using the Army for political purposes, and the military top brass would do well to stand firm to maintain the apolitical nature of the soldier and the Service.
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How True Is the Claim That Bihar Caste Survey Is ‘Promoting Casteism’?
Professor Satish Deshpande argues that the survey is a significant step towards understanding the social and economic realities of the state.
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Bihar Caste Survey: Impoverished Families Highest in SCs/STs, Followed by OBCs/EBCs
The monthly income of 34.13% of all families in the state is a measly Rs 6,000, while 29.61% families survive on income between Rs 6,000 and Rs 10,000/month.
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CAG Officials ‘Exposing’ Govt Misdeeds Being Transferred Out to Punishment Posts
In an open letter to the President of India, the CCG says that after reports found serious flaws in government’s schemes were made public, the CAG transferred the officers responsible for authoring them “giving rise to the suspicion that they had been punished for being honest and upright”.
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Scheduled Castes in the Indian Labour Market
The authors delve into the economic theories surrounding caste discrimination and the resulting inter-caste disparities in employment, unemployment, wages and occupation.
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Conflating Hinduism with Vedic Religion Is a Dangerous Distortion
It will wipe out internal debate and reformist tendencies within the tradition.
