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• Closure of Moscow Helsinki Group another blow to human rights and civic space in Russia | OHCHR

  4 February 2023

  Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
  Press release
  Comment by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Marta Hurtado on Russia
  26 January 2023
  The court order to close down Russia’s oldest human rights organization, the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), is yet another blow to human rights and civic space in the country. MHG was founded in 1976 and reported on human rights violations in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and later the Russian Federation. Its closure was (…)

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  Letter to Union Minister - Electronics and Information Technology by Editors Guild of India (Jan 24, 2023)

  4 February 2023

  The Editors Guild of India Address: 4/7- A, INS Building, Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110001
  24th January 2023
  Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw The Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Electronics Niketan, 6 CGO Complex, Pragati Vihar, Lodhi Road New Delhi - 110003
  Subject: Concerns regarding draft amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021
  Hon’ble Minister,
  amendments to the reads (amendment in blue and (…)

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  CPI Demands Thorough Probe into Adani Deals | Press Release Jan 28, 2023

  4 February 2023

  New Delhi, January 28, 2023
  Press Release
  Communist Party of India Central Office Ajoy Bhavan, 15 Com. Indrajit Gupta Marg, New Delhi 110002
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (January 28, 2023) demanding a thorough probe into Adani deals:
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India has been repeatedly pointing out that the pro-corporate and pro-big business policies adopted by the RSS-BJP combine government led (…)

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  AITUC Press Release on the Union Budget 2023-24

  4 February 2023

  All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
  AITUC Office
  01st February 2023
  Press Release
  The following statement is issued by the AITUC Secretariat on Budget 2023-24
  Budget 2023-24 - Unimpressive and hollow
  Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman has presented her last full budget, placing it with pomp as ‘amrut kaal budget’. As usual the bombastic jugglery of words and encomiums on the Prime Minister filled the substantial part of her budget speech. In sum, the budget woefully is hollow (…)

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  Samyukt Kisan Morcha - Press Statement on Union Budget 2023

  4 February 2023

  Samyukt Kisan Morcha - Press Statement on Union Budget 2023
  UNION GOVT HAS ABANDONED ITS DUTY TOWARDS FARMERS OF INDIA IN UNION BUDGET 2023
  Delhi, 1st February, 2023: SKM expresses shock and bewilderment at the Union Budget 2023 announced by the Finance Minister in the floor of Parliament today.
  While it is universally known that farming and farmers have been economically neglected by the BJP led Union Govt, SKM had expected that after the sustained and determined protest of the (…)

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  The Union Budget is a Disappointment - Socialist Party (India) | Feb 3, 2023

  4 February 2023

  Socialist Party (India)
  Press Release
  THE UNION BUDGET IS A DISAPPOINTMENT
  The Socialist Party (India) is of the view that the Union Budget is disappointing as it lacks clear plans and vision to address the problems of common citizens of India, especially the marginalized sections of population. To solve the problems of farmers or workers, constructive measures are not proposed. There is no relief for the farmer either in terms of promise of guaranteed Minimum Support Prices or from (…)

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  Watson on Seow’s Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia

  4 February 2023

  Reviewed by Andrew Watson (University of Saskatchewan)
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  Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
  by Victor Seow
  Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
  University of Chicago Press 2021. 376 pp | ISBN 978-0-226-72199-6
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  Writing in 1940 about Japan’s energy security, German economist Kurt Bloch referred to coal as “the lifeblood of modern industry.”[1] As Victor Seow makes abundantly clear, this somewhat understated coal’s importance. With (…)

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  A Drawing | Sagari Chhabra

  4 February 2023, by Sagari Chhabra
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  A Group Photo of Progressive Writers in Bombay, 1946

  4 February 2023

  Progressive Writers in Bombay, 1946: Sultana Jafri, Ismat Chugtai, Vishwamitra Adil, Ali Sardar Jafri, Krishan Chander, Mahendranath, Mumtaz Hussain, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Sahir Ludhianvi and Habib Tanvir. Picture courtesy: India-Pak Heritage group

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  The Composer John Cage about silence

  4 February 2023

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  John Cage about silence by jdavidm https://youtu.be/pcHnL7aS64Y