Mainstream WeeklyPakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK)
India’s official claim is to the entire region of the pre-Independence “Princely State of Kashmir & Jammu” — namely, Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh — as an integral part of India. This includes Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK).
Pakistan entered into a boundary Agreement with China in March 1963 to settle its border differences, and ceded the Shaksgam Valley of the Hunza region of POK to China.
Article 6 of the Agreement states: “... the two Parties have agreed (…)
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Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir and the ‘Balance of Fear’ | S.G.Vombatkere
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Nobel Peace Prize: Russian laureate ’told to turn down award’ | Charlie Haynes & Lucy Pawle - BBC Report
16 December 2022BBC News
By Charlie Haynes & Lucy Pawle
BBC HARDtalk
The Russian co-winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize has said Kremlin authorities told him to turn down the award.
Yan Rachinsky, who heads Memorial, said he was told not to accept the prize because the two other co-laureates - a Ukrainian human rights organisation and jailed Belarusian rights defender - were deemed "inappropriate".
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IRGAC Volume on Global Authoritarianism - Perspectives from the South
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How the brain tunes in to unfamiliar voices while you’re sleeping – and why it matters | Jakke Tamminen
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Have you ever watched a duck sleep and wondered how it keeps one eye open? Ducks, like many other birds, sleep with one half of the brain awake while the other half sleeps. This is called “unihemispheric sleep” are sharp waves seen in the sleep EEG that last about half a second. The brain can generate them spontaneously, but most of the time they happen after an outside disturbance, such as someone lightly touching you when you sleep. They are thought to protect sleep (…) -
Open Statement by Concerned Scientists on Bar Gene in GM Mustard | Dec 10, 2022
16 December 2022Text of Open Statement on Bar Gene in GM Mustard
Date: 10th Dec., 2022
We introduce ourselves as scientists, having expertise in the various advanced disciplines of biology, plant breeding and environmental science and who have been following the arguments unfolding in the Hon’ble Supreme Court on the matter of Genetically Modified Mustard. There, the question has come up as to whether or not GM mustard hybrid DMH-11 is an herbicide tolerant crop.
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Mapping India’s Sufi World — With a New Twist | M R Narayan Swamy
16 December 2022, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
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In Search of the Divine:
Living Histories of Sufism in India
by Rana Safvi
Hachette India
Pages: 415; Price: Rs 599 ISBN-10 : 9393701113
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Orthodox Muslims may look down upon Sufism as blasphemy but writer-scholar Rana Safvi asserts that Prophet Muhammud was the first Sufi and the first link of all Sufi orders or silsilas.
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Borders Are Not Real | G Narasimha Raghavan
16 December 2022, by G Narasimha RaghavanBook Review
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