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India Wants to Spend Rs 19,300 Crore on Rejuvenating Yamuna and 12 Other Rivers Through Plantations; Ganga Still Suffers – But Govt Thinks ‘Successful’ Rejuvenation Is a Blueprint for Other Rivers: The proposal doesn’t address the real issues behind the degradation of rivers.
Two landslides in Kinnaur last summer which claimed 22 lives have made the local population more aware of the ecological dangers posed by hydropower projects, such as the proposed Jangi Thopan Powari project.
While the caste system originated in Hindu scriptures, it crystallized during British colonial rule and has stratified society in every South Asian religious community. In addition to India, it is present in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Bhutan.
Afghanistan Braces for New War; Iran Makes Gains as Israel, Turkey Test Moscow’s Limits on Ukraine.
The U.S. industrial-military-congressional complex is made up of the interdependent dynamics of military contractor corporations, military forces, intelligence agencies, and the civilian national security state, which take form as strategy, political-economy factors, and international affairs shift.
The U.S. is getting increasingly worried about the increased connections between China and the Latin American region in trade, telecommunications and transportation networks.
In a fresh betrayal, Spain is once again denying the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination. In a letter addressed to the Moroccan king in March this year, the Spanish government has made clear that it will not respect its historic obligation to support the self-determination of the Sahrawi people.
Discussion with physician Rupa Marya about Deep medicine, which is “a way of understanding how social structures are making us sick and working to redesign those structures—as opposed to shallow medicine, which always points at the cause and the locus of suffering inside one person or one individual.”
King writes: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” This letter became an important text for the civil rights movement in the United States. It has been described as “one of the most important historical documents penned by a modern political prisoner” and is considered a classic document of civil disobedience.
Sikh scholars have expressed misgivings about the BJP government’s efforts to portray the Sikh Guru as a symbol against Muslims, with several of them insisting he died protecting the ethos of religious freedom.
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