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  Stop the Imperialist War! Save Indian Farmers! Announce a Comprehensive Relief Package Now! | AIKS statement, March 5, 2026

  8 March

  All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS)
  AIKS Office : Ajoy Bhavan, 15 Indrajit Gupta Marg, New Delhi-110002
  AIKS Press Release : 5 March 2026
  New Delhi, March 5, 2026: All India Kisan Sabha today issued a scathing indictment of the Modi government

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  ICJ statement US - Israeli war on Iran | March 1, 2026

  8 March

  International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
  01 Mar 2026 | News, Press Releases
  The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) condemns the armed attack by the United States and Israel against Iran as a grave violation of the United Nations Charter and international law, and a significant threat to international peace and security, and to the enjoyment of human rights and humanitarian protection of people in multiple countries.
  The United States and Israel

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  Vincenzo Colaprice. Review of Koivunen, Pia, Performing Peace and Friendship: The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy

  8 March

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Performing Peace and Friendship: The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy
  by Pia Koivunen
  De Gruyter Oldenbourg
  2023. Illustrations. 303 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-3-11-075844-3;
  Free (open access), ISBN 978-3-11-076116-0
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  Reviewed by Vincenzo Colaprice (University of Turin)
  Youth Festivals and Soviet Diplomacy
  On December 24, 2025, the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) issued a call to (…)

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  Caricature Tribute: Unnikrishnan | Jayaraj Vellur

  8 March, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  Audio: The Stolen Revolution - Iranian Women of 1979

  8 March

  Donya Ziaee spoke to three Iranian women who were there

• US-Israeli war on Iran & its ricochet - India cant look away | Letter to the Readers - Mainstream, March 1, 2026

  1 March

  Diplomatic talks were underway between the Americans and the Iranians, and there was hope for a peaceful agreement over Iran’s nuclear programme. But it seems that American were playing a deception game in these talks, geared at gaining time, while preparing for war. In full breach of international law, the American-Israeli bombings have shown that the objective of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu is regime change in Iran. In fact, this massive attack on Iran launched on February 28 was (…)

• India-EU Free Trade Agreement: Benefits and Barriers | K N Ninan

  1 March

  India has signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU). The agreement concluded after prolonged negotiations spread over almost two decades has been described as a mother of all deals. The EU and India together account for 2 billion population, a market worth $3 trillion, 25 percent of gross global GDP and one-third of global trade. The deal gives preferential access and zero or reduced tariff benefits for both sides.
  The FTA is expected to benefit many sectors of the (…)

• Notwithstanding Supreme Court intervention every thing is not fair with SIR and its implementation in Bengal | Arun Srivastava

  1 March, by Arun Srivastava

  The Supreme Court has not outright mocked the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise undertaken by the Chief Election Commissioner at the directive of Narendra Modi, but its two commands; first, criticising the implementation of the SIR in certain states, particularly regarding the use of "logical discrepancy" lists and software tools, and secondly, its directive to the CJ of Calcutta High Court to deploy serving as well as retired judicial officers to oversee adjudication of claims and (…)

• Kerala Urban Policy 2026

  1 March, by Jos Chathukulam

  Abstract
  The Kerala Urban Policy 2026

• Ordinary Indians Lead in Regular Charity | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  1 March, by M R Narayan Swamy

  Whenever I visit the Birla Ghat in Haridwar, I see a regular flow of pious men and women giving small sums of money to the ghat