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‘What’s at Stake for Indian Agriculture in Trump’s Trade Deal?’; ‘US Trade Deal Will Destroy Farmers by Flooding India with American Farm Produce: SKM’; ‘India to Eliminate Tariffs on Industrial and “Vast Array” of Agricultural Goods: Jamieson Greer’; ‘Perils of Opening India’s Agricultural Market to United States Business’.
‘UGC Equity Rules: SC Stay Triggers Nationwide Student Outrage’; ‘Refusal to See Caste Discrimination, Not ‘False Complaints’, Is the Real Crisis on Campus’; ‘Language of Balance Recourse of the Powerful: Satish Deshpande on Opposition to UGC Equity Rules’; ‘What Is ‘Reverse Discrimination’ and Why Is It Being Brought Up for the UGC’s 2026 Rules?’.
India is becoming one of the world’s most aggressive testing grounds for state digital surveillance systems. Over the past decade, the Indian State has quietly assembled a parallel digital security architecture that allows authorities to intercept, analyze and store communications data at an enormous scale.
The State Is Withdrawing from Protecting Unorganised Workers’; ‘“The Doorbell Is Not the Problem”: Why Government Regulation Is Necessary for the Gig Work Sector’; ‘What the State and Start-Up Ecosystem’s Celebration of India’s Gig Economy Tells Us About the Precarious Future of Work’.
Today, workplaces are truly turning into killing fields. As long as development means profit and workers are treated as fuel, these killing fields will continue to operate.
The RSS, which consciously kept aloof from the glorious freedom struggle, finds itself in a peculiar bind: it has to brandish itself as the sole repository of nationalism, but it lacks an authentic icon of freedom to call its own. To rid itself of this embarrassing lacuna, it resorts to appropriating figures like Bhagat Singh, who had nothing whatsoever to do with the ideology the Sangh espouses.
The country’s wavering stance on data exclusivity, which will allow corporations to hold a monopoly on drugs, risks global access to lifesaving medical care.
The river basin sustained one of the world’s most densely populated regions for centuries. Now it is increasingly unable to replenish itself.
‘Top 1% Own 43.8%: Oxfam’s Is the Latest of Global Reports That Link Inequality to Political Power Asymmetry’: Rise in authoritarianism globally, the Oxfam report notes, is tied directly to deepening income inequality. As the rich are getting richer, they’re also getting more politically powerful. Also: ‘“Tax Us. Tax the Super Rich,” Say Nearly 400 Millionaires and Billionaires’.
Khaleda Zia’s death makes way for political realignment. Whether this will help break Bangladesh’s cycle of retributive violence is an open question.
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