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The UK’s privatization binge is glorified asset stripping, pure and simple. Spread that over the decades since Thatcher, it is easy to understand why taxes are high (the highest since the 1950s) and the norm has become substandard and overpriced services in the denationalized industries.
The New Education Policy does not look to build on existing strengths in higher education. Instead, its aim is total disruption: a drastic modification in the meaning of higher education itself and the facilitation of edtech.
More than 50% of Indians of legal working age don’t want a job due to the lack of suitable employment: CMIE
The surging cost of living and the unavailability of basic goods are triggering mass protests around the world, including the Middle East and North Africa.
We are poor and far from powerful centres of economic and political decision-making. But, we live in the centre of the most important battles—fought from our smallest trenches, communities, neighbourhoods, cities, jungles and forests.
Serious attempts to change what is taught and the outlook towards education itself have taken place under the stewardship of PM Narendra Modi. The new National Education Policy provides the necessary framework for both the Hindutvaisation and aggressive privatisation of education.
The Central Board of Secondary Education has removed several other chapters too, including chapters about the Non-Aligned Movement, the Cold War era, the rise of Islamic empires in Afro-Asian territories, the chronicles of Mughal courts and the industrial revolution.
Anganwadi staff are vital to ensuring the wellbeing of India’s children. Yet in 2006, the Supreme Court refused to recognise them as government employees.
A summary of the basic structure of Pakistan’s politics indicates that even if Imran Khan loses the vote, as he is likely to do, his successor will be no better. None of the contenders offers an alternative to Pakistan’s hyper-corrupt status quo.
Some companies are implementing shorter workdays while others are opting for shorter workweeks increasing productivity. Meanwhile, Belgium in mid-February announced a package of labor reforms that includes affording workers the right to request a four-day work week.
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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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