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• Apologising to Bilkis Bano | Sandeep Pandey

  15 October 2022, by Sandeep Pandey

  It is a matter of shame for us as a society that Bilkis Bano’s rapists have been released by a District level committee of Gujarat Government. Some people in the Hindutva family are also justifying the act by claiming that a few of the rapists are Sanskari Brahmans. If rapists and murderers will be called Sanskari, then we as a society have to rethink about the moral values and ethical standards necessary to be upheld for us to be called a civilised society. Besides Biliks Bano feeling (…)

• Hysterectomies in younger Indian women are influenced by insurance subsidies | Debnath, Paul, and Sareen

  15 October 2022

  14/09/2022
  by Sisir Debnath, Sourabh B. Paul, and Komal Sareen *
  Doctors compensated on a fee-for-service basis in India, were more likely to perform hysterectomy surgeries, whether or not they were clinically necessary.
  Women in India were more likely to undergo a hysterectomy when a state-provided health insurance programme reimbursed private hospital fee-for-service arrangements, and younger Indian women are more likely to have the procedure.
  Researchers at the Indian Institute of (…)

• Pensions for All Elderly People Must be A Top Priority in India | Bharat Dogra

  15 October 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  The population of elderly (60 years plus) citizens in India is around 140 million. The union (central) government pays annual pensions worth around Rs. 180,000 crore (one crore=10 million) to its former employees numbering between 6 to 7 million. For the remaining elderly it provides about Rs. 9700 crore (inclusive of some other welfare spending). During recent years, this budget, listed under the National Social Assistance Program (NSAP) has stagnated in money terms, declined in real terms. (…)

• Implications of Netaji’s statue at India Gate | Prem Singh

  15 October 2022, by Prem Singh

  In a TV channel debate, BJP spokesperson and anchor shared and served a lie that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s daughter in her letter to the Prime Minister has alleged that the Congress kept devaluing Netaji to further Gandhi’s non-violence; because Netaji had taken the path of liberating the country through violence mode by forming the Azad Hind Fauj (INA). They also praised the Bombay Royal Naval Mutiny of 1946 to confirm that the country got its independence through a violent route. I (…)

• Gandhi’s Life and Struggle: Impact of Jesus Christ | Ram Puniyani

  15 October 2022

  by Ram Puniyani
  Abstract
  Gandhi emerged not only as one of the greatest persons of twentieth century, he also led the anti colonial movement in India with distinction. This struggle also had positive impact on other anti colonial movements across the World. This movement was unique as Gandhi followed the path of Non Violence, Satyagrha (invocation of Truth). He also evolved the path of love for all and put forward the ‘other Cheek’, to those opposing his path. He succeeded in uniting all (…)

• Feminist Mutiny in Iran and Implications for India | Gouri Sankar Nag

  15 October 2022

  by Gouri Sankar Nag
  Iran is again in the headlines for a seething public unrest and ironically this time it is not the anniversary bereavement sparking solidarity wave against the planned American assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the military general of the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps but for the alleged torture cum murder of a 22 young lady namely Mahsa Amini on the fateful day of 16th September 2022. Her fault was that she dared to challenge the regime’s orthodox restriction on (…)

• Sitting the trippers | Engel & Cowan

  15 October 2022

  October 10, 2022
  by Liam Engel, Edith Cowan *
  Most people who take psychedelics do so on their own or with friends, not in clinical settings. Removing stigma is the first step toward limiting the harm.
  International prohibition means most psychedelic drugs are legally available only in research. There are currently around 60 psychedelic clinical trials globally with an estimated fewer than 6,000 people participating in them. But outside of these trials, more than 20,000 people have (…)

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  AIDWA statement on Supreme Court Ruling on Abortion Rights | Oct 1, 2022

  15 October 2022

  ALL INDIA DEMOCRATIC WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION
  2253-E, Shadi Khampur, New Ranjit Nagar, New Delhi - 110008 hone: 011-25700476, 25709565 Email: aidwacec[at]gmail.com Website: aidwaonline.org
  Date: October 1, 2022
  AIDWA STATEMENT ON THE SC JUDGEMENT ON ABORTION RIGHTS
  The All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) welcomes the judgment of three judges of the Supreme Court in the case of X v. The Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department, Govt. of NCT of Delhi in which (…)

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  Move of the Election Commission to amend the Model Code of Conduct | Statement by CPI

  15 October 2022

  Communist Party of India
  October 5, 2022
  Press Release
  CPI Disapproves EC’s Interference into the Domain of Political Parties and Legislative Bodies
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (on October 5, 2022) disapproving the Election Commission’s interference into the domain of political parties and legislative bodies:
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India disapproves the latest move of the Election (…)

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  Text of CPI(M) General Secretary’s letter to the Election Commission of India’s Proposed Changes to the Model Code of Conduct

  15 October 2022

  cpim.org
  Date: Friday, October 14, 2022
  Sitaram Yechury, General Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist), has written the following letter to the Chief Election Commissioner, Election Commission of India demanding withdrawal of the proposed amendment to the Model Code of Conduct. We are herewith releasing the text of the letter for publication.
  Dear Shri Rajiv Kumar ji,
  This is with reference to the Commission’s letter dated October 4, 2022 regarding the amendment to the (…)