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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
May Day 2022 was a chance for Cuba to welcome tens of thousands of international guests to uphold the vision of International Workers’ Day and demonstrate that global solidarity with Cuba lives. The author too visited Cuba. Her inspiring report.
Beijing is showing the world how to strengthen food sovereignty, and simultaneously fight poverty, with a multi-pronged approach that combines state-funded agricultural cooperatives, stockpiling of nonperishable staples, a crackdown on waste, and government investment in new technologies.
This year, India has been ranked lowest – 180 – in the Environment Performance Index. While the Union environment ministry has raised objections to the rankings, the lead scientist of the EPI stated that the EPI has always ranked countries on the current state of environmental conditions.
Parliament was aware of the clamour to resurrect temples destroyed centuries ago by now destroying mosques in their stead. So, it made additional provisions to end all possible avenues for agitating real or perceived historical wrongs of that nature.
Historian DN Jha’s ‘Against the Grain’, gives a long list of religious sites that were appropriated or destroyed, making it clear that ancient India witnessed a level of religious violence that was certainly not insignificant.
The Metro rail network is failing miserably in different cities. In Bangalore steps to check the falling ridership of Namma Metro are not helping. In Mumbai in the new Metro line the response is so poor, one can count on one’s fingers the number of commuters in the compartment.
CEA report states that 202 thermal power plants generated 232.56 MT of ash in 2020-21. Apart from flooding caused by overflow of fly ash slurry, the toxic waste, which is a by-product of coal combustion process, is also known to cause large-scale air pollution.
The Summit of the Americas, that began on June 6, has proved to be a major diplomatic failure for the US administration. In protest against Washington’s refusal to invite the Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, the presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, and Honduras boycotted the summit.
Gun control isn’t enough. We also need hatred control. The lone wolves out there, the lost souls, who have chosen to play real war in response to their own demons, might seek another course of action if they had fewer political and corporate role models.
Interview with Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, who is serving his fifth consecutive term in office. In addition to being an active campaigner for the republic and full sovereignty, Gonsalves is a renowned intellectual figure.
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