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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The tide of communalism that was threatening to submerge the nation was pushed back with a Herculean effort on the part of India’s national leadership. For almost a decade, communal forces remained on the back-foot. They made a poor showing even in the 1957 elections.
The official poor count then stands at 62.5% of Indian households or 813.5 million Indians. At the same time, in January 2023, luxury car makers announced historic high sales of their luxury brands in 2022.
India reported 1,109 deaths and more than 4,000 injuries in registered factories, on average, each year between 2017 and 2020. The largely informal economy and underreporting of incidents even in the formal economy mean these figures are huge underestimates, say experts.
The allocation has come down from Rs 1.11 lakh crore in FY’21 to Rs 60,000 crore for FY’24. The govt is destroying MGNREGA, to create a vulnerable population that could become modern forms of bonded labourers or, worse, enslaved people in a neoliberal economy.
“The adivasis of Bastar are also part of Bharat. There are many serious concerns regarding their fundamental rights, which await your attention.” Also: Civil Rights Fact-Finding Team Seeking Probe in Aerial Bombing Detained in Chhattisgarh – Statement by FACAM.
The curative petition in the Supreme Court has served as a cruel reminder of incomplete redressal of woes of survivors. The writer examines the claim that victims got compensation “twice over.” He also asks: Who has to bear the burden for the crimes committed by a multinational company?
In the past 75 years, a community of Urdu magazines that used to be read by the entire family has disappeared unmourned, so too their journalists and readers. There is also now no major Urdu newspaper or magazine that is edited by a non-Muslim.
Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso: We do not know yet how good or bad the coup governments in these countries will be, but definitely, they have weakened the parasitic hold of France and the USA on a large part of Africa. Also: “Peace Deal Between Ethiopian Government and TPLF Holds Despite Delays in Implementation”.
February 7 saw France’s third nationwide strike and protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension cuts. Also: On February 5, around 50,000 people marched in Denmark’s capital Copenhagen denouncing the government’s plan to abolish the public holiday on ‘Great Prayer Day’.
The Ecuadorian right-wing parties suffered a resounding defeat both in the subnational elections and in the referendum. The Citizen Revolution candidates for the prefectures triumphed in the provinces with the largest population.
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