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• Aadhaar Number database is beyond national control: India

  14 June 2025, by Gopal Krishna

  Transfer of biometric database compromises sovereignty of nations in South Asia
  The spectre of an authoritarian, vindictive, surveillance state thus continues looming large over India. Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Chairperson, Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs in Our Living Constitution (2025), p. 97
  There is no system of maintaining year wise records of deactivations. Maintaining such a database is not required under the Aadhaar Act, 2016 and Aadhaar (Enrolment & Update) (…)

• Trade Diplomacy Amid the Dichotomy of the Civilisational and Liberal States | Ajay Kumar Mishra, Shraddha Rishi

  14 June 2025, by Ajay Kumar Mishra

  Abstract
  This paper explores why civilisational states exhibit cooperative values in trade and exchange. It highlights an irony where the decline of liberal states might have been expected to weaken trade ties, given that liberalism underpins the very concept of trade. Moreover, it discusses the need for market expansion, materialist interpretation of history, geo-economic complementarities, and trade strategies between civilisational states that drive trade relations among civilisational (…)

• Was the Jagmohan Lal Sinha judgement against Indira Gandhi fair to her? | Faraz Ahmad

  14 June 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  Jagmohan Lal Sinha

• How to Read Donald Trump

  14 June 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Trump

• Imperative Need For Check on The Appointment Process of The Governor Through Confirmatory Imprimatur of The Rajya Sabha on The Pattern of The Senate in The US |

  14 June 2025, by Vijay Kumar

  The office of the Governor has been in news in recent times, especially after the Supreme Court judgment in Tamil Nadu case in which finding was rendered that the Governor acted in bad faith (mala fide in Lawyer

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  CPIML Statement on Israeli Military Aggression on Iran - June 13, 2025

  14 June 2025

  Communist Party of India -Marxist Leninist- Liberation CPIML
  New Delhi, June 13, 2025 | The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation strongly condemns the recent military aggression by the Israeli state against Iran. On June 13, Israel launched large scale attack against Iran

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  CPI Condemns India’s abstention in UN Vote on Palestine (June 14, 2025)

  14 June 2025

  Communist Party of India
  Central Office
  New Delhi
  June 14, 2025
  Press Release
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (June 14, 2025) the following statement:
  The Communist Party of India strongly condemns the abstention of the Government of India in the United Nations General Assembly vote held yesterday on the resolution concerning the ongoing genocide in Gaza. This abstention is not merely a diplomatic maneuver

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  Israel’s Attack on Iranian nuclear facilities can be dangerous for the whole world —IDPD, June 14, 2025

  14 June 2025

  Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD)
  Date: 13.06.2025
  PRESS RELEASE
  Attack on Iranian nuclear facilities can be dangerous for the whole world
  Israeli aggression must stop immediately — IDPD
  Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) have called for immediate cessation of attacks on Iran by the Israeli defence forces. This will have serious implications on the already volatile situation in the middle East and will have International ramifications.
  In the statement (…)

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  Full text of statement by Indian National Congress on Israel’s Bombings & assassinations on Iranian soil (June 15, 2025)

  14 June 2025

  The Indian National Congress unequivocally condemns Israel

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  Statement by Gensuikyo on Israel’s military strikes on Iran | June 13, 2025

  14 June 2025

  Japan Council against A and H Bombs (Gensuikyo)
  Statement
  We denounce Israel’s outrageous attack on Iran and demand its immediate halt
  June 13, 2025
  Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel announced that his forces have attacked more than 100 Iranian targets, including the nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz. The Israeli military has issued a statement saying that it