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The newspapers associated with Ambedkar are repositories of vast information on the history of Dalit political activism, which is why it’s a pity that Ambedkar’s role as a journalist and editor has been largely ignored.
The April 4 report says that global emissions must top out by 2025 and be cut by 43% by 2030 to have a chance of staying under that 1.5°C target. Ultimately, the world will need to reach net-zero carbon emissions by the early 2050s, scientists say.
The United States (backed by the whole of NATO) is in a long proxy war with Russia, with Ukraine as the battlefield. The U.S. role in this conception is to provide more and more weapons faster and faster with Ukraine doing the fighting, bolstered by foreign mercenaries.
The city of Bucha, in Ukraine, has recently come to the attention of Western corporate media, for the purpose of criminalizing Russia for the supposed assassination of 300 civilians. However, the lack of evidence for these claims brings into doubt any allegations that the Russian military was involved.
New Delhi needs to be clear headed and has to grasp the reality that the Ukraine conflict is a template of the Indo-Pacific strategy.
The 2021 coal crisis has severely impacted the power sector. During this crisis, while the 2 CPSEs, CIL and the Singareni Collieries Company, have ramped up coal production to tackle the shortages, the private companies which have been awarded captive coal blocks have taken advantage of the shortages to indulge in profiteering.
Multilateral and bilateral institutions as well private philanthropy have had an outsized role in shaping the global health policy agenda. This piece traces the changes globalization has brought to global health governance.
Attacks on Dalits have grown in Rajasthan since 2018. The upper castes are viewing growing assertion by scheduled castes as a challenge to caste hierarchy—a Dalit man forced to shave off moustache, others beaten for riding a mare on their wedding, Dalit women prohibited from wearing slippers.
A builder devoted to his alma mater, Shifa-ur-Rehman is one of the longest incarcerated accused in the Delhi riots conspiracy case. As we look back at the legal trajectory of his case, Rehman spoke to us from Tihar jail about the India he was born into, Islamophobia today, and the biased application of stringent laws.
As the BJP scripts victories in many states, there are lessons to be learnt on how a regional party like the BJD has repeatedly defeated the saffron party.
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