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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The proposed Electricity (Amendment) Bill-2022 would weaken the finances of states’ power distribution companies, cripple the states’ finances, impose heavy costs on small consumers (especially farmers), and benefit only corporate houses, says the Peoples’ Commission on Public Sector and Public Services.
India is “balancing” between Washington and Moscow and the BRICS summit was a great occasion to monitor that trapeze act.
What is crucially being overlooked by most diagnoses of the current food crisis is how the problem does not lie in a lack of supply, or lack of market integration, but instead in how the food system is structured around power.
Condemning “the barbaric and brutal beheading of a person in Udaipur for a social media post defending an obnoxious and reprehensible statement against Prophet Mohammed”, the statement urges the government “immediately act to stop hate mongering by all sections in all forms.”
Sending Ukraine a $300 million shipment of powerful M-777 howitzers is a lobbying triumph for BAE Systems, one of the many war industry corporations fattening on the death and destruction of the Ukraine war.
The wilfulness, arrogance and irresponsibility of the six US Supreme Court judges, who voted to limit the authority of the EPA to issue rules stopping or limiting the release into the air of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that are rapidly heating the planet, is staggering.
The Haitian Revolution was a breeding ground of revolutions. The viciousness of the colonial master could not erase its example. Inspired, Our America rose up to fight for its independence, again and again, as tireless as the courageous Haitians who defeated Napoleon’s best generals.
The triumph of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez, candidates of the Historic Pact, for President and Vice President, in the second round of the Colombian presidential elections is an extraordinary victory, with not only national but also continental projections.
The apex court judgment on Zakia Jafri’s plea has made the victims of the alleged state-sponsered violence lonely, threatening them against seeking the help of human rights workers; Also: “Zakia Jafri’s Case is Reminder of How the Guilty of Gujarat Subverted Law” – by Teesta Setalvad
Uttar Pradesh has found a new weapon to deal with the violators who pose a challenge to the authority of the state namely, the Bulldozer! It is difficult to find an example anywhere in the world barring the sole exception of Israel where the government is in constant conflict with the Palestinian population.
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