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• Indian Prime Minister

  5 July 2025

  Let UN Charter Be The Statement On Restoring Peace And Harmony World Wide
  by P. Sudhir
  June 30, 2025
  The events of the last fortnight have been dramatic

• From economy of occupation to economy of genocide — Report of UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese (June 30, 2025)

  5 July 2025
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  Sigachi Factory Tragedy a Grim Wake-Up Call: CPI Demands Justice, Accountability and Worker Safety

  5 July 2025

  Communist Party of India Central Office New Delhi
  July 1, 2025
  Press Release
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (July 1, 2025) the following statement:
  The Communist Party of India is deeply shocked and saddened by the devastating incident at the Sigachi Industries unit in Sangareddy district, Telangana. With at least 45 workers reported dead, many injured, and several still missing, this stands as the most tragic industrial disaster in the history (…)

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  Ratify ILO conventions on workplace Safety | AITUC Statement

  5 July 2025

  All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
  Press Release
  The following statement released to the press by Amarjeet Kaur General Secretary AITUC
  2nd July 2025
  Ratify ILO conventions 155 and 187 on workplace Safety. Scrap Anti Worker Labour Codes
  AITUC sends condolences to the families of victims of recent ghastly deaths of 40 workers and several in the fire accidents in Sigachi Chemical Factory in Sangareddy, Telangana, four deaths in the illegal factory in Rithala Delhi, another four (…)

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  Urgent Letter to CM, Karnataka for Dialogue with Devanahalli Farmers & Withdrawal Land Acquisition Proceedings for 1,777 acres

  5 July 2025

  Dt: 3rd July, 2025
  To,
  Shri Siddharamaiah,
  Chief Minister,
  Govt of Karnataka,
  Vidhan Soudha, Bengaluru
  Dear Siddaramaiah avare,
  We the undersigned are writing to you on behalf of the National Alliance of Agrarian Communities and the National Alliance of People

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  CPI Statement Seeks Immediate Action on Atrocities on Dalits | July 5, 2025

  5 July 2025

  Communist Party of India
  New Delhi,
  June 30, 2025
  Press Release
  CPI Approaches Scheduled Castes Commission for Immediate Action on Atrocities on Dalits
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (June 30, 2025) the following statement:
  Communist Party of India General Secretary D. Raja, accompanied by National Secretary Rama Krushna Panda, met Shri Kishor Makwana, Chairperson of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC), today and submitted a (…)

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  Statement from Scientists Against War and Militarization of Science | June 29, 2025

  5 July 2025

  The Statement is issued by the International Union of Scientists (IUS) Against Militarism and the Destructive Use of Science and Technology, on 29 June 2025.
  The Statement
  We, scientists from across the world, issue this urgent statement in the face of escalating threats to humanity.
  Deep and far-reaching crises have swept across the globe. This has caused deepening inequality, devastating livelihoods, and led to sharp divisions in society. Around the world, we are witnessing a (…)

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  Review of Spy Master & Chief Minister | K S Subramanian

  5 July 2025, by K S Subramanian

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  The Chief Minister and the Spy:
  An Unlikely Friendship
  by Dulat A.S
  Juggernaut Books
  2024, pp.289 | ISBN:9789353454746
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  Reviewed by K S Subramanian
  Introduction
  Dulat

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  Review of Takahashi’s Fukushima Futures | James W. Seabrooke III

  5 July 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape by Satsuki Takahashi
  University of Washington Press 2023. 194 pp ISBN 978-0-295-75134-4
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  Reviewed by James W. Seabrooke III
  Environmental Futurism and an Ethnography of Fishermen in the Joban Seascape
  Views of a sustainable future can become quickly obfuscated and disjointed for coastal communities when they are affected by life- and society-disrupting (…)

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  Photo: Tennis champ Arthur Ashe & singer Harry Belafonte at the 1993 anti-apartheid protest outside the UN in New York

  5 July 2025