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• Post-Pahalgam Policy Challenges Before the Union Government | P. S. Jayaramu

  24 May 2025, by P S Jayaramu

  May 21 2025
  The barbaric killing of innocent citizens in Pahalgam is behind us, unfortunate as it was. The Operation Sindoor which followed it, though many citizens felt the action was agonisingly slow, is also behind us, though the Government has declared that it is is only under a pause. The Prime Minister, while addressing the nation said so and declared a doctrine of sorts affirming that any further terrorist strikes by the Pak-supported groups would be construed as acts of war and (…)

• Pahalgam Tragedy: Rising Spiral of Hatred | Ram Puniyani

  24 May 2025, by Ram Puniyani

  The killings of 26 tourists in Baisaran near Pahalgam were one of the worst tragedies in recent times. Baisaran is a lovely spot reachable only on horses or by walking in the uneven terrain. The killings left the whole nation in deep grief. While the terrorists killed tourists after confirming the religion of the victims, one Muslim, the local person escorting the tourists, tried to resist and was killed. Kashmiri porters also carried the tourists to safe places and opened their houses and (…)

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  Homage to Jayant Narlikar | Soma Marla

  24 May 2025, by Soma S. Marla

  Prof. Jayant Vishnu Narlikar a doyen of Astrophysics and Cosmology has passed away in the night of May 19, 2025. An astrophysicist and emeritus Professor for Astronomy and Astrophysiscs at the Inter-University centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Mumbai. At an early age, as a Masters student at Cambridge University, UK he worked with renowned astrophysicist Sir Alfred Hoyle and developed the conformal gravity theory, known as Hoyle-Narlikar theory. The theory synthesises

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  CPI(ML) Liberation Statement over extra judicial killing of the General Secretary of CPI (Maoist) | May 21, 2025

  24 May 2025

  Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
  CPI(ML) strongly condemns the cold-blooded extra-judicial killing of the General Secretary of CPI (Maoist) Comrade Keshav Rao and other Maoist activists and Adivasis in Narayanpur-Bijapur.
  From the celebratory post of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, it is clear that the state is spearheading Operation Kagar as an extra-judicial extermination campaign and taking credit for killing citizens and suppressing Adivasi protests against (…)

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  CPI Press release on the Extra Judicial killing of Senior Maoist leader and Several Adivasis in Chhattisgarh

  24 May 2025

  Communist Party of India
  New Delhi,
  May 21, 2025
  Press Release
  Condemning the Extrajudicial Killing of Maoist Leader and Adivasis in Chhattisgarh
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (May 21, 2025) the following statement:
  CPI strongly condemns the cold-blooded killing of a senior Maoist leader along with several Adivasis in Chhattisgarh, it is to be yet another instance of extrajudicial action carried out under the guise of counterinsurgency (…)

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  Statement from Democratic Teachers Front over the arrest of Dr. Ali Khan Mahumudabad | May 18 2025

  24 May 2025

  Press Release
  Democratic Teachers Front
  18.5.2025
  Against the arrest of Dr. Ali Khan Mahumudabad, Professor, Ashoka University
  The DTF unequivocally condemns the arrest of Dr. Ali Khan Mahmudabad, Associate Professor at Ashoka University, under Section 152 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita for alleged

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  PUCL statement on BJP Government

  24 May 2025

  People’s Union for Civil Liberties
  15th May, 2025 PUCL condemns the BJP Government

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  CFD statement on India-Pakistan hostilities | May 17, 2025

  24 May 2025

  Citizens for Democracy
  17.5 2025
  CFD statement on India-Pakistan hostilities
  Citizens for Democracy expresses its alarm at the aftermath of the horrific terror attack in Pahalgam, which endangers world peace and leads to further breakdown in the rule of international law, as well as poses a further threat to democracy within India itself.
  What happened in Pahalgam was undoubtedly the use of terror to achieve political objectives and it was rightly condemned by all sections of the (…)

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  Resist the attempt to plunge us into war: A warning and call to action for the peace-loving people of India and Pakistan | NAPM

  24 May 2025

  National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM)
  A Month Since Pahalgam: Demand accountability from the Govt and action against the terrorists
  Resist the attempt to plunge us into war: A warning and call to action for the peace-loving people of India and Pakistan
  22nd May, 2025: It is exactly a month since the dastardly terror attack at Pahalgam shook the nation, leading to widespread condemnation across India and globally, of the massacre and forces enabling such mindless violence. The (…)

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  Jose Mujica (1935 -2025): A Revolutionary turned Compassionate Statesman | Jos Chathukulam

  24 May 2025, by Jos Chathukulam

  Obituary
  Jos