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• Indian women decry

  7 December 2024, by John Dayal

  December 7, 2024
  Bhagwat’s 3 child norm
  Indian women, still deemed politically passive, have taken the lead in shooting down an advisory form the ruling party

• Overseas territories boost the might of France, yet it neglects the welfare of their people | Bharat Dogra

  7 December 2024, by Bharat Dogra

  December 17, 2024
  The recent cyclone in Mayotte and the earlier violence in New Caledonia have drawn attention to the problems of people in

• 498-A IPC (85 BNS) must become gender neutral to prevent abuse |

  7 December 2024, by N. Vidya

• Oh, My God! | J.L. Jawahar

  7 December 2024, by Jawarharlal Jasthi

  Prof. Jonathan is teaching cosmology in the university college. He is considered an authority on cosmology and respected in academic circles for his scholarship. He can easily explain the origin of the universe and its evolution into galaxies, stars and planets. He agrees that the big bang was the point of origin for the universe. He tells the students also to take it for granted that the universe started from the Big Bang. He still wants to know what it was that was subjected to the bang

• Belated, But Landmark Intervention Of The Supreme Court In The Places Of Worship Act, 1991 |

  7 December 2024, by Vijay Kumar

  December 13, 2024
  The Supreme Court

• RSS turning Bangladeshi Hindus noncitizens in their own motherland in its quest to project India as the Motherland of Hindus | Arun Srivastava

  7 December 2024

  Increasing support and the rise of the rightist and anti-democratic political forces in the Southeast Asian region has been a matter of concern. The rightist forces have been present in the Indian political structure, but it has gained strength and momentum with these forces getting roots in major Asia-Pacific countries like Japan, India, the Philippines, Thailand and Cambodia in recent years. Most of these countries have been known for their representative democracy. But in recent years a (…)

• Forest Governance in Protected Areas: A Review of Laws and Practice |

  7 December 2024

  Abstract
  Decolonisation and democratisation of forest governance that was set in law through the Forest Rights Act in 2006, more than half a century after India

• Where are we today? And where is the RSS? | Suresh Khairnar

  7 December 2024, by Suresh Khairnar

  Friends, I am not writing this post to show anyone down or up. I have been a soldier of Rashtriya Seva Dal since I was 12 years old. And counting, I was 20 years old. Till then (during the Emergency of 1973-1976, I had to resign due to going to jail!) I have been working as a full time worker of Rashtriya Seva Dal.
  And due to the current situation of the country, in which communal polarization has increased the most since the independence of our country, after a gap of forty years, I was (…)

• Rough Edges of AI Technologies in Warfare | Manoj Kumar Mishra

  7 December 2024

  Breakthroughs in technology and their adoption in warfare are likely to cause more wars by enhancing states’ capabilities and expectations to deter and dominate their enemies and win wars against them by engendering perceptions that balance of power has shifted in their favour of them. Germany buoyed by its industrial success miscalculated its power and lost to the Soviet Union in World War II. New technologies can also bring in relative stability in the anarchy of International Politics (…)

• What is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham? And how did the Islamist group evolve into a key player in Syria

  7 December 2024

  December 2, 2024
  A major offensive has seen rebel groups in Syria retake the country