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• Costs of Treating Iran As a Pariah State: Lessons from Iraq | Manoj Kumar Mishra

  22 April

  Washington needs to negotiate with Iran for the return of peace and stability in the Middle East. It needs to demonstrate a sincere interest towards conceding major waivers and concessions in return for the Iranian willingness to curtail its nuclear and missile programmes. The US has enough to learn from its past mistakes it committed in Iraq, which entangled it in a Vietnam-like quagmire. Vietnam has long been a case that kept warning against American troop engagement in regions far away (…)

• Decoupling War Driven Energy Shocks and Green Transition in India | Piyali Kumar, Utpal Kumar De

  22 April

  Abstract: Cross-country conflicts over resource management, political domination may not only change the socio-economic order in the countries engaged in the conflict, but also has consequences on the trade, resource mobility and overall economic condition of other countries across the continents. Recent conflict in West Asia has also brought about potential threat to cross-country trade, energy security, market stability, changing currency value etc in several other countries, including (…)

• A Great Peace Initiative that Led to the Surrender of Several Hundred Dacoits in Chambal | Bharat Dogra

  22 April, by Bharat Dogra

  At one time the Chambal Valley had become almost synonymous with the terror of dacoit gangs. However in 1960 the famous disciple of Mahatma Gandhi Vinoba Bhave brought hope of peace with a foot march in the course of which about 21 dacoits surrendered. However while a peace committee had been constituted with such significant names as Mahavir Singh and Hem Sharma, further progress was obstructed for some time by several powerful persons and forces of the region.
  However in quiet ways the (…)

• Marriage, Family, and Free Love | Luisa Landova-Stychova (1912)

  22 April

  Note: The author Luisa Landova-Stychova was a Czech anarchist during the 1910s. She was also a feminist, socialist, neo-Malthusian, and philosophical monist. In this piece, she argues that religion, capitalism, housework, and romantic love all alienate women from their interests and pursuit of justice. This piece was written in 1912, while she was an anarchist. It was a speech at an anarchist event and was printed in an anarchist journal. However, the author later became a member of (…)

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  AITUC Statement on crackdown on agitating workers in Manesar and in Noida | April, 14, 2026

  22 April

  ALL INDIA TRADE UNION CONGRESS (AITUC)
  Press Release
  14.04.2026
  AITUC strongly condemns the repression let loose on agitating workers in Manesar and in Noida.
  Demands release of all arrested and initiation of dialogue with union leaders
  AITUC Strongly condemns the UP State Government’s attempt to malign the workers agitation on their genuine demands for raise in minimum

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  CPIM statement on Repression of Agitating Workers in Delhi’s NCR

  22 April

  CPI(M)
  April 14, 2026
  The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
  Condemn Brutal Repression of Agitating Workers
  The CPI(M) strongly condemns the brutal repression unleashed on agitating factory workers in Delhi NCR

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  Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) Statement on NOIDA Workers

  22 April

  The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), condemns the severe police action against striking factory workers of NOIDA and the attack on some reporters covering the protests on April 13, 2026. Reporters were also reportedly lathicharged and Dainik Bhaskar reporter Saket Anand was hit by a danda.
  Some 350 workers have been arrested for vandalism and arson and another 100 detained for questioning, as per reports. Some CITU leaders are also stated to be under house arrest and reporters are not (…)

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  EGi Editors Guild of India statement on 2026 draft IT rules

  22 April

  EGi Editors Guild of India
  Statement on the Draft Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Second Amendment Rules, 2026
  April 4, 2026 ) New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India (EGi) deeply opposes both the contents and the underlying intent behind the Draft Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Second Amendment Rules, 2026 ("Draft Amendments"), which were made public by the Ministry of Electronics and (…)

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  CPI statement on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on the occupied Palestinian territories about India

  22 April

  Communist Party of India
  April 21, 2026
  Press Release
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (April 21, 2026):
  The Communist Party of India expresses deep concern over the recent observations reportedly made by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on the occupied Palestinian territories about India

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  Reject Delimitation but Strengthen Women

  22 April

  On April 16, 2026, a press conference was held in New Delhi to Reject Delimitation and strengthen the Women