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• Status of Transgender Students In Schools Part of Our Current Education System | Bhumika Rajdev

  31 July 2020

  by Bhumika Rajdev
  July 30, 2020
  According to the 2011 census, the total population of transgender is around 4,87,803 out of which 57.06% are literate as compared to 74% of the total population. In 2011, there were 54,854 trans children in the age bracket 0-6 years. Therefore, these children are in the age group 10-16 years today and they should have been in our schools. As per supreme court judgement in 2014, they should be recognised as ‘Third gender’ and should get admission under the (…)

• Surrender of Temple of Jagannath, Puri | Atulkrishna Biswas

  31 July 2020, by A K Biswas

  by Dr. Atulkrishna Biswas “Possession was taken of the town and the Temple of Jagannath by the British on September 18, 1803; the sacred will of the idol having been first ascertained through the medium of the officiating priest.” —J. Melville to Military Secretary to Lord Wellesley, Governor-General, 26 September 1803.
  Part-I Jagannath Temple, Puri surrendered to East India Company, 1803!
  18th September 1803 marked the black day which saw the launch of a campaign for “occupation of (…)

• Is there any win-win solution for resolving the man-wildlife conflict? | Tarun Kumar Basu

  31 July 2020, by Tarun Kumar Basu

  "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated." - Mahatma Gandhi
  Now we have started understanding between the lines of the above quotation. Some heart-rending incidents happened in recent past in the country that caused national and international indignation. A wild pregnant elephant at Palakkad village in Kerala ate a fruit, filled with firecrackers that unfortunately exploded in her mouth. She was unable to chew any food and (…)

• The Russian whistleblower risking it all to expose the scale of an Arctic oil spill catastrophe | Mary Ilyushina, CNN

  31 July 2020

  We were a few kilometers from the Siberian city of Norilsk, where six weeks ago a huge fuel tank at a power plant ruptured, spilling thousands of tons of diesel into the river.
  The owner of the plant, the Nornickel metals giant, says the spill was quickly contained, and the damage limited. Ryabinin has sacrificed his job and his family’s future in Norilsk in an attempt to lift the lid on what environmentalists have called the worst ecological catastrophe in the polar Arctic.

• What’s up at NATO? | Xanthe Hall

  31 July 2020

  by Xanthe Hall
  July 16, 2020
  You could be excused for having missed the fact that NATO is in the process of updating its nuclear strategy, including substantial and significant steps. These include technologically more ambitious weapons that can be used more easily. This is the implementation of a decision made at the NATO Warsaw Summit in 2016 to revise nuclear strategy. In order to follow what’s going on, you have to dig deep on the internet. While this is a little easier because of (…)

• Chart: What Countries Spend on Health Care vs. Military | Eva Finch, July 13, 2020

  31 July 2020

  What does the world spend more money on: war or health? Eva Finch, July 13, 2020 PixlParade.com

• Women unite in maverick attempt to unseat Lukashenko in Belarus | Andrew Roth

  31 July 2020

  Three women are spearheading a maverick opposition campaign for next month’s presidential election in Belarus, transforming the country’s politics as they attempt to unseat Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled for 25 years.

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  Video: The rise of unreason | Pervez Hoodbhoy | TEDxIslamabad

  31 July 2020
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  Video: A Critique of the India’s Draft Environment Impact Assessment Notification 2020 | Let India Breathe

  31 July 2020

  The draft EIA 2020 is Pro Industry - Pro Big business and Puts People and Ecosystems at Risk. Here is a video explainer

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  Sketch of M. N. Roy by Isaak Brodsky at the Second Congress of the Comintern in July 1920

  31 July 2020