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A forum of scientific advisers set up by the government warned Indian officials in early March 2021 of a new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus taking hold in the country; despite the warning, the Modi government did not take forceful steps to stop the spread of the virus.
No construction is allowed in Delhi’s lockdown unless workers live on site. But 180 vehicles have been given permission to bring workers to the Central Vista.
To pretend this is the only form of distraction available to keep people’s minds off the nightmare they’re living is quite unscrupulous.
Protest sites at Delhi’s borders are witnessing crowds again as farmers have started returning after the harvesting season.
In the tradition of proletarian internationalism, working women and farmers from Tanzania express their solidarity with the women farmers of India who have been engaged in struggle for the last several months against pro-corporate farming bills of the Modi-led government.
In response to a request by the Indian government, Twitter has withheld from public view around 50 tweets in India, a good chunk of which criticised the manner in which the Narendra Modi government has handled the COVID-19 pandemic. Also an extract from an article in The Wire.
Do We Need a New Chernobyl?; ‘It’s Like the Embers in a Barbecue Pit.’ Nuclear Reactions are Smoldering Again at Chernobyl; 35 Years After Chernobyl’s Meltdown, the Fallout of Radiation Continues.
Joe Biden chose Earth Day (April 22) to convoke world leaders to a virtual climate summit and pledged to cut U.S. carbon emissions in half by 2030 compared to 2005 levels. But do these meetings and the high-profile announcements they generate make enough of a difference?
Military spending around the world has increased to unprecedented level despite economic suffering due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the U.S. was ahead of all the countries again, finds the latest report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Long-simmering tensions between the AMLO government and business interests escalate in the run-up to the country’s biggest ever midterm elections.
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