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• Will delhi live another life? | Jeevesh Gupta

  27 July 2024

  Dil-o-Dilli donon agar hain kharaab
  P’a kuchh lutf is ujde ghar mein bhi hain
  (My heart and my Delhi may both be in ruins
  There are still some delights in this ravaged home.)
  The above lines by Mir Taqi Mir were written in the 18th century after Delhi had died many a times and risen from ashes regaining its breath every single time. Mir still expressed that there is something about Dilli which keeps it delightful despite having witnessed many invasions and assaults, even massacres. (…)

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  Statement by Radical Socialist on the raging student movement in Bangladesh

  27 July 2024

  The Sheikh Hasina led government in Bangladesh likes to promote itself as anti-communalism and democratic. But in reality, this is an extremely authoritarian government. Two elections, 2018 and 2023, have been won by them through extreme rigging, the level of which is unachievable currently by any party in India . The raging student movement against quota culture in Bangladesh and the repression that the thugs and lumpens of Awami League is unleashing on it, is rare in India except in (…)

• Thousands evicted in Paris ahead of 2024 Olympics | Bharat Dogra

  27 July 2024, by Bharat Dogra

  At a time when most of the discussion is about who will win most medals, on the margins of the Paris Olympic Games several social groups have intensified efforts to prevent the further eviction of any more people. RDLM, a collective of over 80 different organizations, has alleged that thousands of the most vulnerable people including homeless and migrant people have already been evicted in a number of different actions. The number is likely to be around 12,500. In June this collective (…)

• Elections 2024: Democratic Ethos and Plight of Minorities | Ram Puniyani

  26 July 2024, by Ram Puniyani

  The recent order requiring eateries in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand to display name plates — which has been stayed by the Supreme Court — has drawn chilling comparisons to apartheid-era South Africa and Nazi Germany, where Jews were forced to identify their businesses, precursing brutal persecution.
  In the 2024 general elections, the decline of the electoral clout of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its failure to reach the majority mark sparked hope that the democratic decline in (…)

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  statement by Ms Amarjeet Kaur General Secretary AITUC on the Union Budget 2024

  26 July 2024

  All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
  Press Statement
  [July 23, 2024]
  The following preliminary statement by Ms Amarjeet Kaur General Secretary AITUC on the Union Budget presented today.
  Budget 2024 – 25 – A Document of betrayal
  Budget gives no hope to the labour, farmers, unemployed, and the have-nots
  It deceives the students, women and elderly
  Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman has presented budget for 2024-25, the seventh (…)

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  With per capita allocation of Rs.638/- health budget a joke | IDPD

  26 July 2024

  Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD)
  Date: 23.07.2024
  PRESS RELEASE
  Reacting to the health budget Dr Arun Mitra – President Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) has said that the allocation to health is far away from meeting the people’s health needs. The allocation for health is only 89287 cores rupees out of a total budget of 48.21 lakh crore rupees. This means health has been allocated only 1.8% of the total budget. If we calculate the total amount of budget (…)

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  Union Budget 2024-25 for Corporatisation of Agriculture | Samyukt Kisan Morcha (Jul 24, 2024)

  26 July 2024

  Samyukt Kisan Morcha
  Press Note issued in the virtual press conference
  24th July 2024, New Delhi
  Union Budget 2024-25 for Corporatisation of Agriculture
  Call for Burning Copies of the Budget in Villages
  Widest Unity of Farmers, Workers, Youth- Need of the Hour
  Appeals State Governments and Political Parties to fight policy of Power Centralisation in Agriculture, Cooperation to Seize the Rights of States
  No MSP@C2+50%, No Minimum Wage, No Wage Hike in MGNREGS
  Cut in (…)

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  CPI Welcomes Supreme Court Stay on Discriminatory orders along Kanwar Yatras Routes

  26 July 2024

  Communist Party of India
  Press Release
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (on July 22, 2024):
  CPI welcomes Supreme Court’s interim stay on the highly-discriminatory and anti-constitutional orders issued by many BJP-ruled states asking vendors along the routes of Kanwar Yatras to display the names of owners and employees.
  Our Constitution envisaged a society with equality for all. The RSS’ ideology stands opposite to the (…)

• Budget Statement 2024-25: We The People Deserve A Better Government | NTUI, July 23, 2024

  26 July 2024

  New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI)
  Yesterday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, told the country that the Union Budget for the ongoing financial year 2024-25 would lay the economic foundations for the next 5 years and the direction for the next 25, until we got to his goal of ‘Viksit Bharat’. Today’s Union Budget 2024-25 (BS) presented to parliament was so underwhelming that Mr. Modi felt the need to make a thirty-minute national broadcast, to explain to us what it was all about.
  The budget (…)

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  Scholarly Inauguration Of New Genre Of Biography | Vijay Kumar

  26 July 2024, by Vijay Kumar

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Of Law And Life by Upendra Baxi
  in conversation with Arvind Narrain, Lawrence Liang, Sitharamam Kakarala, Sruti Chaganti
  Orient BlackSwan 2024 Pages 582 | Price Rs.2300/-
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  The Book: OF LAW AND LIFE: Upendra Baxi in conversation with Arvind Narrain, Lawrence Liang, Sitharamam Kakarala, Sruti Chaganti is a unique book. It has inaugurated radically new genre which straddles rich and varied forms. It is certainly not an (…)