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  1912 Map of Port of Spain and suburbs

  25 January 2025

  Plan of Port of Spain and suburbs. Scale of feet, 40 [= 160 mm]. Revised plan prepared by J. Girod Shelfmark: Maps 82550. (1.) Place and date of production: Port of Spain: Muir, Marshall & Co., [1912] Credit: From the British Library archive

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  Cartoon: This talk of illegal migrants by Nala Ponaappa

  25 January 2025
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  Film Still from Satyajit Ray’s 1963 film Mahanagar (Big City) with Uttam Kumar, Jaya Bhaduri & Madhabi Mukherjee

  25 January 2025
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  Music: J.J. Cale/ Eric Clapton- After Midnight Live From Crossroads Guitar Festival 2004

  25 January 2025

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 3, Jan 18, 2025

  18 January 2025

  * Demand for MG-NREGA work growing, additional budget needed | Bharat Dogra
  * Manmohan Singh

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 18, 2025

  18 January 2025

  Letter to the readers, Mainstream, 18 Jan 2025
  A deal has been negotiated between Israel and Hamas for a ceasefire in Gaza and is supposed to take effect starting Jan 19. All must welcome this ceasefire agreement. Let us hope there are no last-minute hick-ups and that the ceasefire happens and the process of release of Israeli hostages begins in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and ultimately ending the 15-month-long genocidal war that has killed over 60 thousand and displaced a million (…)

• Demand for MG-NREGA work growing, additional budget needed | Bharat Dogra

  18 January 2025, by Bharat Dogra

  The coordinator of Mahila Sangathan (women

• Chhattisgarh: No grave to lay my head | John Dayal

  18 January 2025, by John Dayal

  January 21, 2025 Indian citizens, regardless of their religion, have freedom of dignity in life, and in death, assurances that are seldom kept
  In the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, villagers, local authorities and even the state’s High Court have denied a Christian man the right to bury his father’s body in the village graveyard.
  There is no peace of the graveyard yet for Subhash Bhaghel who died on Jan. 7 in Chindhwara district in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
  In a (…)

• UGC

  18 January 2025, by P S Jayaramu

  January 16, 2025
  The University Grants Commission ( UGC) recently came up with a draft regulation which covers many important aspects connected with higher education and its governance statures. Its key features need o be dissected.
  At the outset, it must be underlined that the draft regulations are outside UGC

• Fifty days of Dallewal

  18 January 2025, by Prem Singh

  It is a good development that the Samyuykt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has indicated a supportive attitude towards the farmers’ resistance movement being carried out under the joint aegis of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha at Khanauri and Shambhu borders. The talks among the leadership are going on in a positive atmosphere. One can hope that by learning from past experiences and forgetting the differences, if any, all farmers’ organizations in the country will unite (…)