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The 2022–23 union budget should have spelt out an economic strategy for reviving the economy and tackling the unemployment and poverty emergency gripping the country. But the FM does not even show cognizance of the problem.
India’s cumulative COVID-19 deaths were six to seven times higher than reported officially, according to a recent analysis published in the Science journal on January 7, 2022.
Violence over identity and religion is something Indians are (unfortunately) used to. But on Tuesday, the country saw something rarer: riots over jobs.
They are workers but without any formal “employment”. They might sport Zomato or Swiggy t-shirts and caps. But they are not their workers. Nor are these firms their employers. They have a new name—they are called gig workers. They work and live under precarious conditions.
Europe’s Governments Go All In for “Herd Immunity”; Vastly Unequal US has World’s Highest Covid Death Toll – It’s No Coincidence; End of COVID-19 Hospital Death Reporting Is “Incomprehensible,” Says US Health Official.
Brazil’s MST have achieved something even Gandhi never could: the combination of constructive alternatives with broad-based resistance.
The 77-year-old Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier has been in prison for over 46 years. His freedom has been a permanent demand of a movement since the first day of his unfair incarceration. This includes former prosecutor James Reynolds, who has acknowledged that he was part of a rigged trial.
Recent economic events make it clear there are two Indias. Which one should the upcoming Budget speech address?
The Doomsday Clock is set every year by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technologies in other domains. This year too, the Clock remains the closest it has ever been to civilization-ending apocalypse.
Pandemic in India has seen a majority of its citizens going hungry to bed while another, smaller, section making millions. An inclusive, sustainable, and equitable recovery must deal with the triple crisis of the economy, health and climate.
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Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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