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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Declining allocations on social welfare spending, and neglect of existing schemes and programmes, underscore how welfare has come to be constrained in the past ten years.
Commentators are already noting that the One-Day international cricket tournament commencing in India will usher in a pre-election campaign extravaganza for Modi and his BJP, one lasting six weeks.
‘Raiding’ an entire media organisation and snatching the electronic devices of journalists without due process is a bad omen for a free press but a worse signal for the continuation of democracy.
The Forest Conservation Amendment Act 2023 and the Forest Conservation Rules 2022 have opened the floodgates for massive deforestation.
The India versus Bharat debate is based on politics of hate, a menace to the fundamental nature of the Constitution. Contemporary politics seems nothing but an attempt of the distractive forces to change the Constitution while keeping such debates in the public domain.
India is ranked 116th among 146 countries as per the Global Gender Index. The gender-pay gap in India continues to afflict its labour markets and the constitutional value of equality. Also: “India Had Most Maternal Deaths, Stillbirths and Neonatal Deaths in 2020, Says UN Report”.
CAG reports unveil misuse of public funds in key projects and welfare schemes; Also: CAG’s report shines a light on accounting shenanigans that will leave any auditor aghast at the sheer audacity of the sharp practices in central govt accounts.
A series of reports obtained by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, and shared with the Guardian and the Financial Times, has established some of the allegations against the conglomerate by Hindenburg Research. Will the market regulator take note?
In 1926, Gandhi had given a call for boycott of newspapers spreading hate: “India would lose nothing if 90 per cent of the papers were to cease today,” Gandhi had said then; Also: “When Journalism Becomes the Flagbearer of Hate, Can the Resistance to It Be Anything but Political?”
The Agnipath scheme introduced by the Union government for army recruitment on contractual basis is a catastrophe that would inevitably lead to militarisation of India. The fear looms large that after the end of contractual service these youths with arms training would be susceptible to exploitation by paramilitaries.
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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