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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
In a bizarre development, the government has ‘suspended’ the director of the institute responsible for carrying out the periodic NFHS. The fifth report of the Survey, relating to 2019-21, showed substantial worsening of some health indicators for children and women in particular.
Private schools will never remain accountable to the government. If we have to prevent incident like the one described in this article, it is one more reason that now India must nationalize education and implement a common school system.
The political economist does not mince words or try to deflect blame away from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He calls him staggeringly incompetent. But at the same time, he also says that democracy is a shared responsibility of all citizens, and so also says: “It is us, as a people, who must ultimately take the blame.”
“Gandhian Institutions Under Attack! Sarva Sewa Sangh Campus, in Rajghat, Varanasi, Bulldozed!”; Also: “NAPM Condemns the Vindictive Targeting of Progressive Media Houses, Including NewsClick”.
The Meo Muslims of Nuh shared tight bonds and socio-cultural life with Hindus for centuries. But lynchings and hate killings since 2017 have torn them apart.
This week augurs an acceleration of strategic realignments among the big powers amidst growing signs of a new cold war globally with particular focus on the United States’ containment strategy against China playing out in the Indo-Pacific region.
As developments in West Africa demonstrate, the francophone countries are no longer willing to accept French neo-colonialism. With the fear factor finally removed, Africa’s quest for genuine independence is steadily coming to fruition.
There has been a strong drive in Algeria to rid itself of its colonial past, reducing the use of French in discourse, education and the media and this in turn has generated more anti-French feeling in the country.
Eritrea is a small nation on the Horn of Africa with a population of only 6 million people. In 1991 it emerged as an independent country after years of war with Ethiopia and is decidedly socialist, which is why the U.S. has remained so hostile to its existence.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has kept his silence about when and what he knew about President Biden’s decision to mangle Germany’s economy by destroying the Nord Stream pipelines last September.
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