Laissez-faire Agnipath Scheme Could Strike at Operational Foundations of India’s Armed Forces
A cost-cutting measure initiated by stealth, the scheme could transform the world’s second-largest military into a rag-tag force of intern soldiers.
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After Industrialists and Government Offer Jobs to Discharged Agniveers, Veterans Question Past Hiring Record
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.
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Bharat Gaurav Train ‘Loots’ Passengers, Step Closer to ‘Privatisation’ of Railways
The Dakshin Railway Employees Union (DREU) has said that the launch of Bharat Gaurav Trains is an ominous sign of total privatisation of the Railways in the years to come – as it will lead to a complete dry up of railway revenues.
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Odisha: Droupadi Murmu Set to be President But Repression of Dhinkia Adivasis Continues
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.
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Bound to No Rules, Modi’s Yoga Day Maintains Its Lawless Asana
Trained practitioners warn an unregulated Yoga scenario is making people ill. The Indian government is aware – yet continues to postpone regulation.
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French Left Surges, But Neofascists Also Gain Amid Centrist “Neutrality”
In the June parliamentary elections, while the right-of-center government of President Macron’s Together! bloc failed to win a majority in the National Assembly, winning 245 of 577 seats, a leftwing coalition, NUPES, took a surprising second place, with 131 seats.
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Julian Assange, Alina Lipp, and Anne-Laure Bonnel – When Truth Becomes a Crime in the West
Three journalists – Julian Assange, Alina Lipp and Anne-laure Bonnel – are paying a high price for telling the truth in the West: financial suffocation, censorship, threats and imprisonment, and even physical and psychological torture in the case of Assange. They illustrate the reality of “democracy” in the West.
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Keeping Quiet
A poem by the Nobel laureate, who was murdered by General Pinochet’s goons in 1973.
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Agnipath: The Path Towards Precarious Sovereignty
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.
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Why the Government’s ‘Plans’ for Demobilised Agniveers Don’t Inspire Trust
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?”
