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• Who is sincere about ceasefire in Gaza? | Faraz Ahmad

  8 November 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  US President Donald Trump, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in tow, announced from the White House on September 29 a ceasefire of the Israeli war on the Palestinians in Gaza just a week before the completion of two years of Zionist genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, beginning October 8, 2023.
  But has Israel really stopped bombing Gaza and killing Palestinians, even for a day, since that so-called ceasefire? Earlier this week, in a major assault on Gaza, it killed 104 (…)

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  Statement by CNDP India on US President Donald Trump announcing resumption of nuclear tests

  8 November 2025

  Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) India
  [November 4, 2025]
  The spectre of a nuclear Armageddon has become a constant companion of humanity since the huge criminal massacre in the closing days of WWII in August 1945 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After a relative pause with the end of the Cold War, this has again started looking more and more real and immediate. The Doomsday Clock

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  Apathy of the Modi Government towards the Central Government Employees and Pensioners! —AITUC statement

  8 November 2025

  ALL INDIA TRADE UNION CONGRESS (AITUC)
  Press Release
  The following statement issued to the press by Ms. Amarjeet Kaur, General Secretary, AITUC today - 4th November 2025
  Modi Government betrays the 69 lakh Pensioners and Family Pensioners by keeping out them from the purview of 8th Central Pay Commission !
  The Government takes advantage of the validation authority taken in the Parliament through the Finance Bill to decide about the fate of the existing Pensioners!
  AITUC condemns (…)

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  The ground-breaking theorisation on the people as co-authors of the constitution and their central role as constitutional actors | Vijay Kumar

  8 November 2025, by Vijay Kumar

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  Assembling India

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  Video: Who killed Benazir Bhutto? | ASSASSINS

  8 November 2025

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  Who killed Benazir Bhutto? | ASSASSINS by ABC News In-depth https://youtu.be/Lmg86aSp82A?si=7ovj5N35fAvxP1Eb

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  Music: Sir Karl Jenkins

  8 November 2025

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  Sir Karl Jenkins – Palladio, conducted by Andrzej Kucybała by Akademia Filmu i Telewizji https://youtu.be/7sV-jHIp_oQ

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 43-44, Oct 25-Nov 1, 2025

  25 October 2025

  * Unveiling Poverty in India: An Analytical Inquiry | Bhat & Hussain
  * Predatory Extractions Can Derail India

• Indian State

  25 October 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  A national daily reported a month ago the

• India

  25 October 2025

  October 2, 2025
  The focus on Indian knowledge systems in the UGC

• Unveiling Poverty in India: An Analytical Inquiry | Fayaz Ahmad Bhat, Shazia Hussain

  25 October 2025

  Abstract
  This paper presents a descriptive analysis of poverty in India, drawing on secondary data from national surveys and expert committee reports. The findings reveal a steady decline in income poverty since the 1970s, with the pace of reduction accelerating after 2004