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• Reviving Farm Biodiversity and Protecting Rights of Farmers | Bharat Dogra

  4 October 2025, by Bharat Dogra

  One of the biggest worries relating to the food and farming system at world level has been that in recent decades the diversity of crops being grown on the fields of farmers has declined to an alarming extent. The diversity of crops has decreased and in addition the diversity of varieties of crops has decreased even more and their genetic base has become narrower.
  Earlier the crop diversity had evolved over a period of over ten thousand years on farms and for much longer in nature. Apart (…)

• Trump

  4 October 2025

  The US government has introduced H-1B visa reforms, including a $100000 fee for new applications, a wage-based lottery system, and priority for STEM (Science, technology, engineering, mathematics) graduates and small businesses, aiming to prioritise highly skilled workers and protect American jobs. This policy openly reflects elements of economic nationalism in the US, prioritising domestic labour market protection over global talent attraction. The world is stunned by the drastic increase (…)

• Jane Goodall, the gentle disrupter whose research on chimpanzees redefined what it meant to be human | Mireya Mayor

  4 October 2025

  October 1, 2025
  Anyone proposing to offer a master class on changing the world for the better, without becoming negative, cynical, angry or narrow-minded in the process, could model their advice on the life and work of pioneering animal behavior scholar Jane Goodall [1].
  Goodall

• Trump

  4 October 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  Within 48 hours of US President Donald Trump, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the butcher of Gaza, in tow, announcing on September 29, in Washington, final cessation of Israeli war on Gaza, or rather the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, Israel has broken the compact and its Defence Minister Katz ordered all remaining Palestinians In Gaza city, their last refuge, to leave Gaza City immediately underlining that it was their

• New American Gaza Peace Plan To Promote American Hegemony | Soma S Marla

  4 October 2025, by Soma S. Marla

  On September 29, 2025, President Trump unveiled a 20-point peace plan to end the two-year-long Gaza genocide by Israel. The proposal comes amidst the ongoing genocide in Gaza, that caused enormous human suffering of human life that has never been heard of since World War II. The plan is offered at a time when global outcry condemning Israeli genocide and major Western nations recognised the Palestinian state and demanded an immediate ceasefire. While Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has (…)

• Trump’s Plan for Gaza is an Effort to Ensure the Permanent Subordination of Palestinians | Achin Vanaik

  4 October 2025, by Achin Vanaik

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  Scrap Pirpainti Thermal Power Plant & Return Land to Farmers —NAPM statement, Oct 3, 2025

  4 October 2025

  NAPM Demands Scrapping of Pirpainti Thermal Power Plant and Return of Land to Farmers
  State must prioritize agrarian interests; not Adani

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  Postage Stamp on RSS | CPM statement, Oct 1, 2025

  4 October 2025

  October 1, 2025
  The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
  Postage Stamp on RSS: Insult to the Constitution of India
  The release of a postage stamp and a 100 rupee coin by the Prime Minister to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the RSS is a grave injury and insult to the Constitution of India which the RSS has never accepted. It is highly objectionable that an official coin should replicate the

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  Photo: Factory Worker at Lee, Howl & Company Ltd., Tipton, Staffordshire, UK (1978) | Nick Hedges

  4 October 2025

  photograph by Nick Hedges

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  Music: Carise Blanton sings Keep The Little Flame Alive — on the global aid Flotilla to Gaza

  4 October 2025

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  Carsie Blanton - Little Flame LIVE - Cayamo 17 (Mar 6, 2025) by Gerrit, Music Lover, Traveler, Geek https://youtu.be/gyshqUjHm6Y?si=EZDkg4qcsaF9Blhj