Kashmir Is in a Lockdown Within the Lockdown, This Must End Now
The social, economic, political and communication lockdown imposed by the Union government is now doubly reinforced by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The social, economic, political and communication lockdown imposed by the Union government is now doubly reinforced by the coronavirus pandemic.
The government is using the lockdown as an opportunity to clear many controversial projects, one such being the Central Vista Project. Despite its wastefulness, Modi is bent on promoting it as it fulfills a key RSS agenda.
Trump administration’s zeal in shifting attention from its own bungling of the Covid-19 crisis to putting the blame on China is weakening the global fight against the pandemic.
Trump is seeking to seize control of the development of the COVID-19 vaccine as a new instrument of global power, and so that Big Pharma can earn huge profits.
Trump blaming the pandemic solely on China is not only misleading, but hypocritical – as US agri-business corporations are equally responsible.
We are all weathering the same storm, but we are not all in the same boat.
While the government is trying to play down the economic loss due to the pandemic, it is certain that the economy will shrink sizeably in 2020-21.
Capitalism has always sacrificed the safety and health of the employees to boost profits of the employers.
From demonetisation to GST and now the lockdown, the government’s policies towards the ‘unorganised sector’ has spelt nothing but rack and ruin.
On May 22, Central Trade Unions protested the draconian new policies that have stripped workers across the country of a number of basic rights.
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