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The Archbishop, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011, writes that 84-year old Father Stan Swamy who had spent decades serving the tribal people of Jharkhand, has been arrested on trumped up charges and confined to jail for nearly a year now. As he battles illness, his endurance has left a message for the world.
The signatories, including Noam Chomsky and Olga Tokarczuk, sought that the temporary order to release prisoners in light of COVID-19 be applied to these political prisoners as well.
The noted lawyer analyses recent case law on the rampant misuse of Section 124A of the IPC, which provides for the offence of sedition, as well as questions the reasoning of the Supreme Court in its landmark Kedar Nath Singh judgment, to argue for the repeal of the sedition law.
The vocal, sustained and fiercely vehement opposition of the DMK to the New Education Policy ever since its draft released in 2019, has been barely a matter of surprise to close watchers and chroniclers of the Dravidian movement.
Online classes have become the main mode of learning for millions of school students across India due to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, majority of children in small towns and rural areas are not able to attend these classes, due to high costs and connectivity problems.
The project is facing resistance due to ecological concerns and also because the locals fear it would lead to loss of livelihood.
Due to the IPRs, countries struggle to access supplies of drugs and vaccines, especially at affordable rates. While at WTO, India has put forth the TRIPS waiver proposal, domestically it continues to oppose grant of compulsory licenses.
The difference between the MSP declared for ten kharif crops and that calculated according to the Swaminathan Commission formula ranges between Rs 611 per quintal to Rs 2,027.5 per quintal, depending upon which one of the ten crops is chosen.
The CPI(M) does not regard the BJP’s repeated attempts to destabilise the West Bengal government as a threat to federalism but as a political tussle between TMC and BJP, forgetting that this struggle is very similar to the struggles of the Jyoti Basu government against the Centre in the 1980s.
Judge Anand Venkatesh described his quest to tackle his ‘ignorance and prejudice’ about same-sex relationships. Ajay Kumar thanks the judge for making him and millions of people like him feel like they belong to this society and that this society acknowledges their existence.
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