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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The Central government continues to squeeze millions of Indians by relentlessly raising the prices of essential fuels, such as cooking gas and petrol/diesel. The real reason for this price rise: the Modi government has been relentlessly increasing excise duty on petroleum products.
Press release by NAPM, extending full solidarity and support to the crucial 10-day long foot march undertaken by hundreds of adivasis from the Hasdeo region of Chhattisgarh to protect their forests and home lands from destructive coal mining.
Two global indexes on the world’s most powerful passports show that the country has toppled down several ranks recently.
Social media propaganda, complete with hashtags, trends and concocted videos, seems to have one single aim: to boycott Muslim-owned and run businesses.
The intensely researched work, which came before the current politicised antagonism towards the Mughals, ‘Mughal Samrat Akbar Aur Sanskrit’ is a unique volume.
In the run-up to COP26, considered by many to be a last-chance opportunity to make meaningful change on climate, Thunberg talks with NBC News’ Al Roker about what she expects—and hopes—will come from the global event.
Her groundbreaking work influenced the struggle for the rights of women, Shudras and Dalits in 19th-century India and into the present.
Shining a light on the case of Cihan Erdal, a trade union, peace and LGBTI+ campaigner, who faces trumped-up charges in one of Turkey’s biggest mass trials.
The Tatas’ acquisition of Air India threatens to create an oligopoly in the Indian aviation market. The sale is being ostensibly justified by Air India’s bleeding losses that were, in fact, caused by deliberate and egregious neglect of India’s oldest airline under liberalisation.
The real daily earnings of rural self-employed decreased from Rs 21.1 to Rs 19.9, and did not increase much in urban areas (a negligible rise from Rs 139.9 to Rs 141.3) during 2017-2020.
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