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• SHANTI Act 2025 dilutes safeguards & liability to appease private investors in the nuclear energy sector | Divya Rashmi

  24 January

  The Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India Bill, 2025 (SHANTI Bill) was introduced in Parliament, citing regulatory modernisation, private sector participation, and harmonisation with international nuclear practices. The Bill was positioned as an

• Are Gavai

  24 January

  The Former C J B.R. Gavai, repeatedly says that the creamy layer principle should also apply to Scheduled Castes. His comments are nothing new. The argument that reservations should be based on economic criteria rather than caste has been made by upper castes for a very long time. Now, the fact that even B.R. Gavai

• Estimating GDP in India: How Erroneous is it? | Arun Kumar

  24 January, by Arun Kumar

  (Based on articles in Manorma Year Book, 2025 and in National Herald, 2025 December 6)
  GDP is taken to give an idea of the production of goods and services in an economy. Because of the huge diversity of what is produced in a modern society, aggregation becomes difficult. GDP yields one monetary number to represent it and that is taken to present an aggregate picture of society

• An Inside View of Why Sri Lanka

  24 January, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Sri Lanka

• Wildlife attacks, a natural disaster from governance failure | C R Bijoy

  24 January

  Abstract
  Wildlife attacks across the country are no longer isolated incidents, but a natural disaster now sweeping across the rapidly expanding highly policed enclaves of wildlife preserves, the Tiger Reserves, National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries. Increasing outrage at the governance failure resulting in wildlife being forced out into the surrounding human habitations seek to address the cause even while providing expeditious acceptable just relief to the victims. Forests and its (…)

• VBSA Bill: Reform in Name, Control in Practice | Adama Srinivas Reddy

  24 January, by Adama Srinivas Reddy

  The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan (VBSA) Bill marks a critical turning point in India

• Literature and Class Struggle by Franz Mehring (1929)

  24 January

  by Franz Mehring from The Communist. Vol. 8 No. 7. July, 1929.

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  Joint Statement of Left Parties — India Should Not Join US Constituted Board of Peace

  24 January

  January 21, 2026
  India Should Not Join US Constituted Board of Peace
  The following is the joint statement issued by the five Left Parties

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  Pakistan

  24 January, by M R Narayan Swamy

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Perfect Storm: The History and Anatomy of 26/11
  by Prabhakar Aloka and Nikhil Ravi
  Ebury Press/Penguin Random House
  Pages: xxxi + 220; Price: Rs 499
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  If former Intelligence Bureau officer Prabhakar Aloka is to be believed, Pakistan

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  Book Review of Anand Teltumbde, The Caste Con Census | Srinivasulu Karli

  24 January, by Karli Srinivasulu

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  The Caste Con Census
  by Anand Teltumbde
  Navayana Publishing, New Delhi
  2025
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  Reviewed by Srinivasulu Karli
  There is a strong association made out in the existing discourse on caste in which caste data collected through the census is shown to be critical to the pursuance of social justice politics. This, of course, is sharply articulated by Rahul Gandhi with the slogan of ’jitni abadi, utna haq’ (rights proportionate to one