Mainstream WeeklyAT-1 bonds are once again in news. This time for misselling issues and sharp sales practices. Over 97% of individual investors in the AT-1 bonds were existing customers of Yes Bank, and one-fifth of them prematurely closed their fixed deposits to invest in these bonds. It is alleged a large proportion of the investors were old customers with a low-risk appetite.
Issues of concern in such situation are: How far the principle, a golden rule, ‘let the buyer beware’, holds true in this case? (…)
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AT-1 Bonds: Watch out Before Subscribing | Nand L. Dhameja
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Prominent international figures urge release of human rights defenders in India | Press Release, InSAF India - June 10, 2021
12 June 2021PRESS RELEASE
Over 50 eminent international figures including members of several European parliaments academics, lawyers, Nobel laureates, civil society leaders, and diasporic organisations have signed a joint statement urging the Indian government to show compassion and responsibility in the current Covid emergency, and call upon the authorities to release all arrested human rights defenders into safe conditions in the light of the dire threats to their health given the spread of Covid in (…) -
AIFUCTO Press Release on Blended mode of teaching | June 6, 2021
12 June 2021All India Federation of University and College Teacher’s organisation (AIFUCTO)
PRESS RELEASE:
PATNA
06.06.2021
All India Federation of University and College Teacher’s organisation (AIFUCTO) is extremely critical and expresses its strong resentment to the draft notification of UGC on 20.05.2021 on the blended mode of teaching and learning. It is most unfortunate that when the entire country is struggling with an unprecedented situation created by the Corona Virus, the UGC has (…) -
Global People’s Summit on Food Systems Press Release June 5, 2021
12 June 2021Dear Friends,
On World Environment Day, farmers, consumers, environmentalists, sectoral groups held a press launch of the Global People’s Summit on Food Systems today, June 5, 2021. The Global People’s Summit is a people-led campaign for the radical transformation of food systems, to counter the upcoming United Nations Food Systems Summit and its corporate agenda. Stop Golden Rice! Network is one of the members of the Organizing Committee of the Global Peoples Summit.
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Jagdeep S. Chhokar: Why the Powers That Be Aren’t Worried About the Many Crises in India
12 June 2021 -
Frens-String on Chastain and Lorek, ’Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America
12 June 2021Reviewer: Joshua Frens-String
Andra B. Chastain, Timothy Lorek, eds. Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America (INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. 366 pp. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-4596-3.
What events and historical processes should be considered a part of Latin America’s Cold War experience? Who were the Latin American Cold War’s principal protagonists? How did a decades-long (…) -
Climate change is making ocean waves more powerful, threatening to erode many coastlines | Mortlock, Odériz, Mori and Silva
12 June 2021by Thomas Mortlock, Itxaso Odériz, Nobuhito Mori, Rodolfo Silva
June 8, 2021
Sea level rise isn’t the only way climate change will devastate the coast. Our research, published today, found it is also making waves more powerful, particularly in the Southern Hemisphere.
We plotted the trajectory of these stronger waves and found the coasts of South Australia and Western Australia, Pacific and Caribbean Islands, East Indonesia and Japan, and South Africa are already experiencing more (…) -
A tentative unity among Myanmar’s anti-coup forces | Mikael Gravers
12 June 2021by Mikael Gravers*
8 June 2021
The Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) continues its terror and arrests amid increased civilian resistance to the February 2021 coup — resistance which has included armed civilians attacking soldiers. Hospitals, education, transportation and banks are paralysed by strikes. Food and fuel shortages are looming. Meanwhile anti-coup forces have formed a National Unity Government (NUG) and drafted a federal constitution as an alternative to the 2008 military (…) -
Ten Theses on the Proliferation of Egocrats | Fredy Perlman
12 June 2021by Fredy Perlman*
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The Egocrat — Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Kim Ii Sung — is not an accident or an aberration or an irruption of irrationality; he is a personification of the relations of the existing social order.
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The Egocrat is initially an individual, like everyone else: mute and powerless in this society without community or communication, victimized by the spectacle, “the existing order’s uninterrupted discourse about itself, its laudatory monologue, the self-portrait of power in (…) -
László Moholy-Nagy - Untitled, 1920, lino cut on paper
12 June 2021