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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The Modi government persisted in finding ways to open up forests for commercial plantations, beginning shortly after taking office and ultimately achieving it through recent amendments to the Forest (Conservation) Act that damages the rights of tribal people, official documents reveal.
In exchange for an emergency loan, the IMF has imposed a series of conditions that have significantly exacerbated Sri Lanka’s wage and cost-of-living crises. Sri Lankans have once again taken to the streets in protest.
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.
United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced on Sept 8, on the sidelines of the G-20 summit, that India had agreed to reduce tariffs on certain U.S. products, including chickpeas, lentils, almonds, walnuts, apples, frozen chicken-turkey-duck, and several other agricultural products.
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?”
Over the course of a harrowing four months in India’s sensitive border state of Manipur, the once-coexisting communities of Meitei and Kuki have descended into a state of irreparable enmity. The violence erupted on May 3 and continues.
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.
The text of the writer’s speech as she received the 45th European Essay Prize on September 12: “India’s Constitution has been effectively set aside. The Indian Penal Code is being rewritten…. However grim the situation is, please know that there is a tremendous fight back.”
After over three months of Thailand being put on hold as the country’s political adversaries tried to figure a way out of the surprising results of the May elections, a solution was finally reached among contending parties in the third week of August. It was a victory for the establishment.
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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