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Several industry leaders have offered jobs to Agniveers. The question is, how many ex-servicemen have they employed in the past in their respective corporate houses. The Modi govt. too has promised them jobs in govt departments – but it has not filled the posts reserved for them so far. Also: Farmers and workers join youth protesting Agnipath scheme.
Even as Droupadi Murmu is set to become the country’s first president to emerge from a tribal community, Adivasis in Odisha – her home state – continue to face the brunt of a brutal repression for their opposition to a steel plant in Dhinkia.
Trained practitioners warn an unregulated Yoga scenario is making people ill. The Indian government is aware – yet continues to postpone regulation.
The Narendra Modi-led government has not only failed its promise to provide two crore jobs to the youth every year, it has also created a situation where economic growth is barely creating jobs. And now the Agnipath scheme has taken away the chance to find a secure position. Expect more agitations.
The Panjab Agriculture University study examined deaths by suicide among farmers between 2000 and 2018 in six districts of the state.
Gopi Chand Narang, who passed away on June 15, was a towering scholar who kept reiterating the secular, tolerant, inclusive and assimilative character of Urdu till his last breath.
Whether it be the nefarious design of the corporatization of the defence ordinance factories or the current move towards contractualization of army recruitment; the pseudo-nationalists are hell bent on putting the nation’s security and sovereignty on mortgage.
After their term ends, thousands of Agniveers would be at the mercy of the Department of Ex-servicemen Welfare for re-employment, which has done little or nothing to resettle ex-servicemen, say protesters. Also: “Agnipath – Path of Militarisation of Society?”
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.
Americans estimate that the Indian government would grab the I2U2 platform to burnish its international image. But if there is any sanity left in the Indian foreign policy establishment, a subaltern role to serve US and Israeli interests cannot enhance India’s prestige in West Asia.
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