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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The Chinese know where they are and what they did. The government of India and the Army, too, are, hopefully, wiser after the event. The only ones who do not yet clearly know what transpired are the people of India.
As the RTI Act completes 16 years it becomes increasingly clear that democracy, and the right to information are inextricably linked to one another. Despite all the effort to weaken and dilute the law, it is clear that the RTI is much more than a law. It is a people’s movement.
Until the recent killings of minorities, there was an unusual silence in Kashmir valley. Kashmir’s situation reveals the tell-tale signs of a region pushed into a vortex of irrecoverable misery, thanks to monumental official blunders.
The NHRC chief recently praised the Union home minister for ushering in ‘a new age of peace’ in the region. Perhaps he knows something people in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura don’t.
Following a sexual assault, the survivor and her family go through more trauma and humiliation at the hands of social service providers — hostile police, inquisitive court personnel and insensitive hospitals. It can lead to various health and mental issues in victims.
After economic warfare, cyber warfare, information warfare, etc. against its adversaries, NATO is now working on a new kind of combat it has branded cognitive warfare. It involves exploiting “the vulnerabilities of the human brain” in order to implement more sophisticated “social engineering.”
Quietly, the U.S. national security state is turning up the heat on Belarus, hoping that the ex-Soviet country of 9 million will be the next casualty of its regime-change agenda.
The US government has fully backed the repression unleashed by Hernández led Honduran government on its people, including providing training, supplies, and funding for Honduras’s police and military – as Hernandez has allowed US corporations to freely enter and plunder the country.
For four years, actions of the Saudi-led coalition waging war against Yemen had been examined and reported on by the UN Group of Experts. Now, under intense lobbying by Saudi Arabia and its allies, the Group is being closed down.
Mexico, the birthplace of modern corn, is no longer a welcome place for GMO corn – thanks to a presidential decree issued on December 31 that phases out the use of the “probably” carcinogenic herbicide glyphosate and bans the cultivation and importation of genetically modified (GM) corn.
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