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• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Sept 13, 2025

  13 September 2025

  What message from the wrecking ball in Nepal
  Nepal made big news in the past week with a very violent uprising, which led to a dramatic overthrow of its Government in less than 48 hours. Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli who was supposed to travel to India this week, had to literally flee, like most of his colleagues. On September 3, the Left wing government in Nepal banned Facebook, YouTube, Twitter under a directive requiring regulation of social media seeking to control fake news, (…)

• Nepal

  13 September 2025

  Nepal faced a significant political and social crisis in September 2025 after the government unexpectedly restricted access to major social media platforms. Youth-driven mass protests often referred to as the

• Decoding Nepal Unrest

  13 September 2025, by S N Sahu

  After the unprecedented protest and unrest in Nepal against host of problems including endemic corruption attributed to political leaders of all hues and officialdom President Ram Chandra Poudel administered oath of office to the 73-year-old former Chief Justice, Sushila Karki, to assume office as the interim Prime Minister, making her the first woman to lead the country. Karki agreed to take that responsibility on the condition that she would be free to investigate corruption at high (…)

• There’s More Than Meets The Eye in the Sept 2025 Student Revolt in Kathmandu | Radhakanta Barik

  13 September 2025, by Radhakanta Barik

  Nepal

• Courageous, Committed and Kind

  13 September 2025, by Bharat Dogra

  The health challenges of remote villages are often discussed in the context of the availability of doctors. What is often ignored

• Can a driver run Indian taxi cooperative outplay Uber, Ola ride-hailing servcies | Satyendra Pandey, Pratik Modi

  13 September 2025

  August 12, 2025
  Backed by cooperatives, Bharat taxi aims to be a ride-hailing platform where drivers are not just service providers but also co-owners of the business.
  A new taxi service [1], backed by eight cooperatives, is set to change the way Indians book their rides.
  The service, registered as the Multi-State Sahakari Taxi Cooperative Ltd, is backed by the National Cooperative Development Corporation as well as seven other leading Indian cooperative institutions: Amul, NDDB, (…)

• Who will bell the Israeli cat? | Faraz Ahmad

  13 September 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  The Zionist state of Israel bombed on September 9 Doha the capital of the Gulf island state of Qatar, a most trusted and dependable ally of the United States of America (USA) which also hosts a US air base at Ai Udeid to monitor and prevent any misadventure against US

• On the need to address the Israeli attacks on the UN system | S Faizi

  13 September 2025, by S Faizi

  My letter to the UN on the need to act on the Israeli attacks on the UN system, using the relevant Rules of the UN GA Rules of Procedure, to circumvent the UN SC veto.
  Faizi
  Forwarded message ---------
  From: Faizi S <s.faizi111[at]gmail.com>
  Date: Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 11:31?AM
  Subject: On the need to address the Israeli attacks on the UN system
  To: opga[at]un.org
  Cc: sg[at]un.org, secretariat[at]g77.org
  President
  United Nations General Assembly
  New York
  Copy: (…)

• RSS at 100:

  13 September 2025, by Ram Puniyani

  Ram Puniyani
  RSS which was formed in 1925 is completing its hundred years on 2nd October 2025. Its politics has been Hindutva and it aims at Hindu Nation. Its pledge, an oath taken by its volunteers, commits them to remain loyal to Hindu nation. It set up shakhas at a rapid pace, shakha (branch) is the basic unit of RSS. In this shakha earlier young boys, and now people of all ages play Indian games like Kaddadi, Kho-Kho etc. They are given ideological training, which is called shakha (…)

• The learning gaps among the school children: What is happening in our schools and homes? | Rajeshwar Mishra

  13 September 2025

  The foreground - concerning calls!
  One may often come across concerning voices from among the teachers, students and parents about