While all this is discussed by defense experts, one must explore another side of this scheme, that it makes thousands of trained ‘Agniveers’ — 75% recruits who lose their jobs after four years’ contract is over — simply unemployed. https://www.counterview.net/2022/06/agniveers-on-contract-what-if-chinese.html
Hostility between India and Pakistan can be ended by creating a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in South Asia. All outstanding issues, including Kashmir, should be resolved through dialogue. Most importantly, the border between India and Pakistan should be opened for all citizens the way this has been done to visit the Kartarpur Sahib gurudwara. https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/963083-a-feudal-mindset-dominates-the-political-culture-in-south-asia
Even now, nearly a year after the worst effects of the pandemic were seen, hundreds of sanitation workers and manual scavengers are permanently employed in digging up human remains for trade.Lockdown Effect: Manual Scavengers Turn to Selling Human Bones Simply to Survive: Pragya Akhilesh, Anil Balmiki, Sujith Balmiki and Dinesh Hela, 24 March 2022https://thewire.in/rights/lockdown-effect-manual-scavengers-turn-to-selling-human-bones-simply-to-survive… Within […]
by Dr. Sandeep Pandey Dimapur Conclave for ‘Save the Peace,’ organized by Naga People’s Movement for Human Rights on 25-26 March 2022, adopted the following resolution: Indo-Naga political talks must be supported and protected till it achieves the desired goal of honourable and lasting peace for both parties in talks. The Framework Agreement signed on […]
In the middle of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections the Bhartiya Janta Party published a full front page advertisement a day before and on the day of polling for fourth and fifth phase. This advertisement is basically electoral promises. According to Section 126 of the Representation of Peoples Act all campaigning must stop 48 hours […]
What Achebe wrote, regarding Africa is true of much of the non-white world which “is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray – a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical and moral deformities so that he may go forward, erect and immaculate”. Ironically, European moral deformities have been on open display […]
The Sangh Parivar claims to be a cultural organization. Core supporters of its ideology are upper caste and/or the educated elite. Quite naturally it gives importance to education. It is opposed to caste based reservation in the name of honouring merit. The irony is among the top leadership of Sangh Parivar or it affiliate […]
Rajeev yadav, a sp(i) supported candidate from nizamabad constituency in azamgarh successfully filed his nomination and got helicopter as symbol to contest the election for u.p. assembly. polling in his constituency is scheduled on 7 march, 2022.—————————————————————————————————————————————————————- Appeal for contribution…For the General Secretary of Rihai Manch, Rajeev Yadav, who is contesting from the Nizamabad assembly […]
Khurram Parvez would have known it was coming. Two weeks back, Mr Shah opened his dog-eared copy of the 2019 illustrated edition of The Standard Playbook for Indian Dictators, beamed around at approving looks from his team as he landed on the chapter – “UAPA for Professional Dummies” and promptly got Khurram arrested. But then, Khurram is […]
