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• Health must be fast-tracked for 2030 | K. Srinath Reddy

  30 September 2023

  The world needs more and better skilled health workers to attain the SDG targets and continue to foster global health beyond 2030.
  The COVID-19 pandemic might no longer be a public health emergency but the world is still facing a crisis in health, and progress on Sustainable Development Goal 3 is under threat.
  Climate change is bringing an array of health challenges, ranging from severe heat effects and extreme weather events to vector-borne diseases and food insecurity. Antimicrobial (…)

• Will Modi fight the next general elections over the threat of Khalistan? I Faraz Ahmad

  30 September 2023, by Faraz Ahmad

  Will Khalistan be the next campaign issue of Modi as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prepares to go to elections for the 18th Lok Sabha, 2024, or even earlier? Remember, Modi won the 2019 elections to the 17th Lok Sabha with even higher numbers than his first triumph of 2014 on the hype created by the killing of 40 CRPF personnel travelling from Jammu to Srinagar by road. Republic TV head, an unabashed Modi bhakt, was jumping from his anchor stool not out of anguish for the sad and untimely (…)

• Mahatma Gandhi Lives On Beyond Institutions I D M Diwakar

  30 September 2023

  The people of India and their governments, irrespective of ideological sheds, remember their beloved leader, the Father of the Nation with gratitude. This is precisely because of the grand legacy of Mahatma Gandhi and its impact on the masses remains so deep that no government in India can afford to ignore it, whether it likes or not, be it a political party with a legacy of Nehru or Savarkar. Even the global community and organisations such as the United Nations Organization (UNO) also (…)

• For A Real Tribute to MS Swaminathan Implement Swaminathan Commission recommendations I Soma Marla

  30 September 2023, by Soma S. Marla

  A year back I was travelling to Bhopal from Delhi on a train and met a few farmers in my compartment. While introducing myself I casually asked them if they knew Dr. Swaminathan Ji. Immediately two of them nodded affirmatively and said “Swaminathan sipharoso lagu karo” (Implement the recommendations of Swaminathan commission. Farmers around the country knows Dr Swaminathan not only for Kayan Sona, a high-yielding dwarf wheat, but also his pro-farmer recommendations, including on crop (…)

• Unpaid salaries of HEC workers who built the launch pad for India’s moon flight: Letter to the PM Modi | Binoy Viswam

  30 September 2023, by Binoy Viswam

  Binoy Viswam Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) 116, North Avenue New Delhi - 110 001 Mob: 9605766702 E-mail: binoyviswam55[at]gmail.com
  To, Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, Government of India
  Respected Shri Narendra Modi ji,
  Dt. 28th September, 2023
  I am writing this to express my concern about the plight of over 3,000 employees of Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) who have not received their salaries for the last 20 months. HEC is one of India’s oldest and ablest Public (…)

• On the Mode of Governance in India I Arup Kumar Sen

  30 September 2023, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Very recently, the BJP government in India celebrated the passing of the Women’s Bill 2023, seeking to reserve 33% of seats in Lok Sabha and State Assemblies for women, in both houses of the Parliament. The Prime Minister characterized it as a “defining moment in our nation’s democratic journey.” However, the mode of governance in India in recent times has a democratic deficit.
  The present government has made Aadhaar mandatory in the delivery of welfare benefits to the people. Global (…)

• One Nation, One Election: No Solution to Ailments of Present Electoral System I D Raja

  30 September 2023, by D Raja

  The making of the Constitution commenced with a clear awareness of the immense diversity of our country and the need to address and accommodate the same while upholding the principles of justice and equality. The road towards democracy was embarked upon with a strong sense of representation and recognition. Universal adult franchise was one of the early expressions of this vision.
  Similarly, a clear division of subjects between the Union and state governments was designed to aid the (…)

• INDIA Alliance is yet to become an ideological alliance | Gopal Krishna

  30 September 2023

  If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn’t thinking. George S. Patton, a General in the US Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third United States Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
  The question is not whether or not the convener of INDIA Alliance partners be made the convener of INDIA’s electoral campaign, the question is whether INDIA will offer a narrative independent (…)

• In Need of Immediate Actions: Tracing the New Poor and their Vulnerability | Chattopadhyay & Pratim Sahu

  30 September 2023

  The COVID-19 pandemic has presented itself as an unprecedented ‘crisis of livelihood’. Poor people, due to their nature of jobs and limited economic resilience, have received the maximum jolts. As per the IMF study (2021) , COVID-19 has pushed 97 million more people into poverty.
  Ironically, the vulnerability of rural livelihoods is greater consequent upon any economic shocks, let alone the pandemic. This is attributed to a combination of factors operating at the household levels - heavy (…)

• New Report Exposes Grave Injustice to Villagers in the Name of Expanding Tourism and Parks in Tanzania | Bharat Dogra

  30 September 2023, by Bharat Dogra

  Despite the fact that several highly respected conservationists have been repeatedly advising that the best way of achieving success and sustainability in conservation efforts is by involving local communities in these efforts and not by displacing them, it appears that injustice instead of justice for local villagers is still the path pursued by some authorities and the banks financing them.
  This certainly appears to have been the sad experience of the villagers including indigenous (…)