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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
With the Personal Digital Personal Data Protection Act, the Government of India claims it has provided Indians with the ability to exercise their fundamental right to privacy. The reality is that it is full of exceptions that suppress our freedoms.
For years, India’s highway authority has cut away at the mountain state’s slopes to make wider roads for traffic. The result has been cataclysmic landslides.
There have been 525 attacks against Christians in India just in the first eight months of 2023. This year will likely cross the violent record set in 2022, and in 2021 before that.
Over the past 17 years, a Nicobarese tribe inhabiting an island of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago for about 50,000 years has pleaded with the union government to return them to the ancestral land they lived in before the 2004 tsunami. But the government is planning to build massive tourism facilities on the island, so it has ignored their pleas.
The Modi government persisted in finding ways to open up forests for commercial plantations, beginning shortly after taking office and ultimately achieving it through recent amendments to the Forest (Conservation) Act that damages the rights of tribal people, official documents reveal.
The all-out assault on the autonomy of Ashoka University and its regrettable capitulation to such menacing interferences reminds one of British rule, when universities of pre-independent India were being controlled by the colonial government directly or indirectly.
Patriarchy starts from homes, not the streets. Families, especially mothers, impose salwar-kameez and dupatta on young girls and women, as soon as they turn 12 or 13. But they never have a conversation with their sons about respecting women or even their own sisters.
The three governments have created an alliance to establish “an architecture of collective defense and mutual assistance for the benefit of our populations.” It is not merely a military pact; they have also agreed to develop an economic agenda to benefit their peoples, and decolonise the region of French influence.
In exchange for an emergency loan, the IMF has imposed a series of conditions that have significantly exacerbated Sri Lanka’s wage and cost-of-living crises. Sri Lankans have once again taken to the streets in protest.
AMLO government has cancelled public-private partnerships for nine public hospitals by simply offering to pay just over 5% of the outstanding debt and fees owed to the companies involved. This is in sharp contrast to Europe – where many governments are gutting their public healthcare services.
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