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• Is Yashwant Varma the excuse to revive the NJAC? | Faraz Ahmad

  29 March 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  Evidence so far surfaced in the case of sacks full of currency notes in the bungalow of Justice Yashwant Varma of the Delhi High Court, leads anyone to believe that this raises questions on Justice Varma

• Death in Kandhamal: failure of Public Distribution System | Radhakanta Barik

  29 March 2025, by Radhakanta Barik

  for twenty four years people have forgotten the hunger related deaths in Odisha and today it has got started in Kandhamal district of Odisha. It seems that failure of public distraction system has resulted in killing two persons in the district.
  Key Words: Hunger, poverty, public distribution system, death
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  Introduction:
  Within five months of rule in Odisha the Hanuman is dancing in the villages where lanes of thatched houses are there and people are scared of the Hanuman with (…)

• On Reservations in Higher Education | Arup Maharatna

  29 March 2025, by Arup Maharatna

  Abstract
  The commentary dissects rationale and ramifications of a policy of reservation especially when it is coupled with relaxation in the tests of intellectual abilities and academic volition at the time of admission to higher educational institutions.
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  There was a time

• A Centennial Tribute to Samaresh Basu | Jayanta Kumar Ghosal

  29 March 2025

  Samaresh Basu (1924-1988), even after his passing away three and a half decade ago, still remains as the most representative story teller of Bengal

• Why we need to regulate herbal pills | Anindita Chakrabarty

  29 March 2025

  December 20, 2024
  While normally beneficial or harmless, natural medicines and supplements can be harmful if used in excess.
  Few people would pop a medical pill without a doctor

• Indonesia passes controversial law allowing greater military role in government | Kate Lamb

  29 March 2025

  Activists in world

• The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict through a Third-World Feminist Lens | Rajeshwari Sharma

  29 March 2025

  Understanding militarism and war through a gendered lens

• The Left Needs to Back a European Security Policy | Hanna Perekhoda

  29 March 2025

  For decades, European countries have underinvested in defense, relying on American military power and assuming that large-scale conflict on the continent was a thing of the past. However, Russia

• Need to go beyond puerile ’definitions’ of Fascism | Aditya Nigam

  29 March 2025, by Aditya Nigam

  Quite apart from the dinosaur-like CPI-M position on fascism, there is a genuine and serious problem with the way we discuss or study the phenomenon - exclusively with reference to the Italian and German experiences (more German actually). Even that experience is reduced to some unhelpful superficial formulas like Horkheimer’s largely misunderstood statement in 1939 ’if you aren’t willing to talk about capitalism, you had better keep quiet about fascism too’, or Dimitrov’s rendering of (…)

• Slave Trade

  29 March 2025

  26 March 2025
  Press Release/061/2025
  UNITED NATIONS INFORMATION CENTRE
  FROM THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL
  Following are UN Secretary-General Ant