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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Women journalists and activists; academics and students; two office bearers of the Congress Party; authors, a lawyer, a historian, a radio jockey, a famous actor, all Muslim women, were ‘sold’ in an online hate crime on New Year. Besides their identity, they had something else in common.
In 2021, the government pushed renewables to meet its updated climate targets, but also came up with plans to clear forests and reduced scrutiny of polluting units that could cause further environmental damage.
Latest CMIE data shows that share of families with two members working has fallen drastically. This means people are surviving on much less income.
Savitri was born at a time when there were certain castes which had a monopoly over education. One could not even think of talking about educating women. Yet, Savitribai Phule fought to educate girls. She was not only a great teacher but also a much loved maternal figure to the girls.
For those who believe Africa was decolonized decades ago, it’s time to wake up from dream-world. With the help of groups like the CIA, Europe and USA covertly recolonized the continent, with bribes, murders, loans, privatizations and the installation of western-friendly regimes.
The biggest culprit for rising prices that’s not being talked about is the increasing economic concentration of the American economy in the hands of a relative few giant big corporations with the power to raise prices.
Unions fight for more pay for workers. But workers also need to have time for themselves and their friends and families. Overtime pay and raises can’t replace what we need more than anything else: our time back.
Kinnauras launch campaign against the proposed 804 MW Jangi Thopan Powari Hydroelectricity Project on Satluj.
Our normal was bad enough with communal strife and anti-Dalit violence, but the new normal is far worse. Hate became the calling card of 2021, and India went several rounds down the spiral. Also: A report by HLRN says that over a quarter of a million people were evicted in India during the Covid-19 pandemic.
On 3 December, a tribunal revoked the sole rights granted by the government to Pepsico over a potato used to make its best-selling Lays brand of chips. But while the order delighted farmers, it did not reflect India’s unique law that allows farmers to trade in even those seeds protected as intellectual property.
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