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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!
An excerpt from ‘Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy’.
Sikh scholars have expressed misgivings about the BJP government’s efforts to portray the Sikh Guru as a symbol against Muslims, with several of them insisting he died protecting the ethos of religious freedom.
The Mumbai-based organisation has questioned the ‘complicity of the police’ in the communal clashes reported recently.
The Central Board of Secondary Education has removed several other chapters too, including chapters about the Non-Aligned Movement, the Cold War era, the rise of Islamic empires in Afro-Asian territories, the chronicles of Mughal courts and the industrial revolution.
Compared to upper caste Hindus and other backward castes, Adivasis die four years, Dalits three years and Muslims a year earlier, and the Muslim life expectancy has worsened over the last 20 years, according to two new studies. The disparities are not due to wealth alone …
The freedom to cite ‘national security’, unexamined, and as a reason to withhold information, or have a matter adjourned, or use the ‘sealed envelope’ method, are illustrations.
The BJP has picked up a playbook of authoritarian regimes when it razes homes and buildings of the poor and its critics. As in the past, people are paying the price for it today.
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Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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