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• Obituary: Chandrawati - Many firsts to her Credit but She remained a Simple Politician (1928-2020)

  9 January 2021

  by Sher Singh Sangwan *
  Chandrawati, the first women Legislator, the first women Minister in the state, first women Leader of Opposition and first member Parliament from Haryana breathed her last on 15 November 2020 in PGIMS Rohtak at the age of 92. Moreover, she was a daughter of Kisan and Jawan family from the most backward area of Haryana.
  She was born in village Dalawas of Tehsil/District Charkhi Dadri of Haryana. She was born in a simple family of Hazari Ram, a havaldar in army and (…)

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  Concern over emergency use approval to vaccine candidates of Serum Institute and Bharat Biotech - Statement by All India Drug Action Network | Jan 2, 2021

  9 January 2021

  ALL INDIA DRUG ACTION NETWORK (AIDAN)
  AIDAN’s Immediate Response to
  SEC recommendations to grant restricted emergency use (REU) approval to vaccine candidates of Serum Institute and Bharat Biotech
  2 January 2020
  COVISHIELD. Serum Institute
  1. We would like to know - the efficacy estimates for the dosing regimen and dosing schedule that will be followed in India as concluded by the SEC the specific data and analysis of the foreign trials of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine that (…)

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  PMSF statement on clearance granted to Covid vaccines by DCGI (Drug Controller General of India) [Jan 5, 2020]

  9 January 2021

  Progressive Medicos and Scientists Forum Office Address: 2nd Floor [Left] 1527 C, Gali No. 13, Govindpuri, Kalkaji, New Delhi India, 110019
  5th January 2021
  India ranks high among the countries worst affected by COVID19 pandemic. It need also be acknowledged that when developed in strict conformity with the principles of science and epidemiological rationale, vaccines have played an important role in advancement of health and wellbeing of the human race as also of other species that (…)

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  Scrap the "Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance" Immediately - Full Text of Call by 133 Rights groups and 858 Citizens

  9 January 2021

  Press Release
  Since the UP Govt has passed The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance 2020 on 27th November 2020, there have been strange incidents of young people walking together or simply knowing each other being picked up and charged by the police. This is what young people ask about this Ordinance - At the age of 18, we can vote for our councillors, MLAs, MPs. At 18, we decide who will make and implement policies that affect us, our loved ones, our (…)

• The Taliban are megarich – here’s where they get the money they use to wage war in Afghanistan | Hanif Sufizada

  9 January 2021

  by Hanif Sufizada *
  December 8, 2020
  The Taliban militants of Afghanistan have grown richer and more powerful since their fundamentalist Islamic regime was toppled by U.S. forces in 2001.
  In the fiscal year that ended in March 2020, the Taliban reportedly brought in US$1.6 billion, according to Mullah Yaqoob, son of the late Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, who revealed the Taliban’s income sources in a confidential report commissioned by NATO and later obtained by Radio (…)

• Fundamentalists Make Hay While the Sun Shines | Humra Quraishi

  9 January 2021, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS
  January 6, 2021
  As I sit writing this week’s column, there’s heavy downpour and thunder and lightning, in and around the capital city, New Delhi. With that in the background or foreground, my heart is with the farmers, who are braving it out, taking on Nature’s onslaughts together with the political treachery. The level of the Sarkari ruthlessness can be judged from the fact that though till date over 50 farmers have died, in fact, martyred, during their ongoing peaceful (…)

• West Bengal: Official recognition and Rediscovery of the Dalit Reality in First Sahitya Sabha | Manosanta Biswas

  9 January 2021

  Summary:
  ‘West Bengal Dalit Sahitya Academy’ under ‘Information and Broadcast Department’ of West Bengal government was recently set up. In the domain of progressive Bengali literature always repudiated the Dalit reality and literary culture. After four decades of struggle in West Bengal, Bengali Dalit literature has finally received official recognition of the Government. The first meeting of the Academy successfully showcased its own alternative literature which has been reported in this (…)

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  National Exam on Cow Science - Cartoon by Jayaraj Vellur

  9 January 2021

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  India to hold nationwide ‘cow science’ exam https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/7/india-to-hold-nationwide-cow-science-exam ]

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  Ruler Artwork by Sagari Chhabra (Jan 2, 2021)

  9 January 2021

• Ode To The Year 2020

  9 January 2021, by Sagari Chhabra

  We thought we were done With wars, famine and the plague, When something so vague, Without so much as a look Simply overtook, our lives. A couple started walking with bundles of clothes, Their sleeping child atop a trundling suitcase; They left in haste, At a frantic pace; For home. They were not alone; Thousands left Walking the road for miles, With no food, no water; Gnashed teeth – a smile. Beaten callously by the police on the way, Some reached, a few fell to the sway Of time; The (…)