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With illegal sand mining digging up the Yamuna, fishermen turn farmers only to be hit by mafia encroachment of the riverbanks. People fear they will be forced to relocate if mining continues undeterred.
The failure of too many in the mainstream press is not only inexcusable, but ominous.
New research published in the peer-reviewed journal ‘Nature’ warns that nearly every threshold for a “safe and just” planet has already been breached and pleads for swift action to protect “the global commons for all people now and into the future.”
What happened to Professor Tejaswini Desai of Kolhapur can happen to anyone in the teaching community. It tells you of the perils of being a teacher in India of our times
Previous BJP government in Himachal Pradesh entered a tripartite agreement with the GoI to obtain RDSS to improve the operational efficiencies and financial sustainability of HPSEBL. Is this agreement truly about efficient management, or is it a backdoor entry of the private players?
The idea of Athens as mother of democracy was pushed by modern scholars of ancient Greece and Rome. Ancient Greek and Roman writers on India themselves found several similarities with political structures in the subcontinent.
Not long ago, it was predicted that the next wars would be for water. In today’s Uruguay, a battle is being waged within this war against the commodification and exploitation of water resources, which are being being valued more than life.
For years, government-related institutes have experimented on their own citizens, mainly minorities, to serve their own interests. Infamous and not entirely disclosed, here are some of the most unethical operations done by the US on its own people and soil.
During both the creation and withdrawal of the Bill, the government did not consider the livelihoods and lives of the millions of caste-oppressed landless, marginal, and small farmers who depend on livestock for their survival. Also: The Livestock Export Bill has been Withdrawn for Now But Disregard for Live Animal Trade Remains”.
Meteorological data show slightly elevated temperatures in Ganjam, more frequent cyclonic weather patterns, which in turn cause tidal surges, as well as uncertain rainfall creating drought conditions. Ganjam, thus, gets the worst of both worlds.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
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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