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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
While India has played a crucial role in bringing the TRIPS waiver proposal to the WTO in October 2020, concerns have been expressed on India’s commitment to the waiver proposal. That is because of Indian government’s stated policy announcements on these matters at home.
In rural Nandurbar, some primary health centres do not even have rapid testing kits; Covid Care Centres have been shut after the second wave abated, and oxygen access is miles away.
According to the Census 2011 the country has more than 1.7 million homeless people, among whom 938,384 live in urban areas. However, the number of homeless persons remains grossly under-documented till date.
Anganwadi workers and ASHA workers are technically volunteers and therefore paid an honorarium below the minimum wage, but actually they are essential workers, who managed the State’s on-ground pandemic response. Also: 1.93 lakh posts of Anganwadi workers lying vacant across country.
This executive summary of the third report issued by the Forum details several issues from civilian security to freedom of media, speech and information as well as health, employment, land, demography and identity rights.
It’s the minorities who are used as a shield to advance the majority and the state’s interests and sovereignty.
Every member in the Women’s Hockey Olympic Squad in Tokyo has been through personal struggles that can’t be measured in words.
Report from Nicaragua on the 42nd anniversary of the Sandinista revolution. Nicaraguans discuss their improved quality of life. President Ortega condemns the dictatorial US “empire that wants to dominate all countries”.
Amidst Rain, Kisan Sansad Takes on Contract Farming; Women Farmers Hold ‘Kisan Sansad’; Farmers to Campaign Against BJP in Upcoming Polls.
Angela Rangad’s extraordinary solo protest ended with the Meghalaya government calling her for consultations on better implementation of the Chief Minister’s Relief Against Wage Loss scheme.
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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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