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• Farmers’ struggle for self-assertion and preserving dignity | Arun Srivastava

  5 December 2020

  by Arun Srivastava
  Compulsion to gratify his corporate friends has been so onerous that Narendra Modi dared to trample all the executive norms and constitutional provisions in his pursuit to thrust the newly enacted three agriculture laws on the farmers, who he claims are close to his heart.
  His hypocritical claim got exposed in the wake of farmers march to Delhi demanding scrapping of the three laws and restoration of the MSP law. The most interesting aspect of the Modi’s opera was his (…)

• The Farmers’ Movement - Lands the Modi Government in a Quandary | Prem Singh

  5 December 2020

  by Prem Singh
  The farmer is the provider of food (Anndata) to the world, but in today’s system, he often has a craving for grains. People thrive in towns and cities using his earnings, but only disasters come in his share. The crop dries due to droughts. Floods submerge fields. But a big disaster over these two comes when the price of the crop that came home after a year’s hard work is so low that even the cost and expense does not come out. ... If the farmers are in a bad condition today, (…)

• Why Action to Promote Mangal Turbine and Help its Innovator Farmer-Scientist Should Not Be Delayed Any Further | Bharat Dogra

  5 December 2020, by Bharat Dogra

  It was over three decades ba1ck , in 1987, that the great potential of Mangal Turbine for helping farmers was first demonstrated by its brilliant innovator and farmer-scientist Mangal Singh. Within a short time this attracted a lot of attention, with many scientists and senior officials visiting the site confirming its great usefulness in lifting water from streams without using either diesel or electricity . Since then this has been confirmed and reconfirmed in official and non-official (…)

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  News Coverage of Farmers Protests - Media Advisory by Editors Guild | Dec 4, 2020

  5 December 2020

  The Editors Guild of India (EGI)
  MEDIA ADVISORY
  December 4, 2020
  The Editors Guild of India (EGI) is concerned about the news coverage of the farmers’ protests in the national capital, wherein certain sections of the media have been labelling them as “Khalistanis”, “ anti-nationals”, and other such terms to delegitimise the protests without any evidence or proof. This goes against the tenets of responsible and ethical journalism. Such actions compromise the credibility of the media. (…)

• A few questions that would haunt the Prime Minister forever | Suresh Khairnar

  5 December 2020, by Suresh Khairnar

  As a restless winter spreads across India, a blanket of anxiety, unease, and anguish hovers over us today. The violence unleashed on our consciousness with the images of farmers’ marches being met with water-canons, teargas shells, and unspeakable brutality, while we remain trapped in our homes due to the pandemic, is further intensified by the brazen display of insensitivity on the part of the ruling dispensation. Impervious to the massive and peaceful protests by farmers underway for (…)

• Banking License to Corporates — a very bad idea | C.H. Venkatachalam

  5 December 2020

  ALL INDIA BANK EMPLOYEES’ ASSOCIATION
  Central Office: “PRABHAT NIVAS” Regn. No.2037
  Singapore Plaza, 164, Linghi Chetty Street, Chennai-600001
  Phone: 2535 1522 Fax: 2535 8853 web: www.aibea.in
  e mail: chv.aibea[at]gmail.com & aibeahq[at]gmail.com
  C.H. Venkatachalam, General Secretary
  With RBI’s Internal Working Group submitting their recommendation that Corporate Houses and Big Business Houses can be allowed as promoters of Banks, a lot of debate is going on. To us in AIBEA, (…)

• Standing up for integrity in public life - Naveen Patnaik Expels Party MLA for ’anti People’ Activity | S N Sahu

  5 December 2020, by S N Sahu

  The momentous decision taken by the President of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and Chief Minister of Odisha on 29th November 2020 in removing a sitting BJD MLA Shri Pradeep Panigrahi from the primary membership of the party on account of his anti-people activities constitutes a rare and exceptional event in the politics and public life not just of Odisha but of the whole of India. It stands in sharp contrast to the numerous examples of leaders and members of political parties getting expelled from (…)

• Tributes to Diego Maradona show how easily violence against women is ignored | Joan Smith

  5 December 2020

  by Joan Smith *
  November 27, 2020
  Too often we’re in denial about the fact that heroes – such as Maradona and Sean Connery – might also be abusers
  Imagine a man hitting his partner. The picture that comes to mind probably involves a scruffy individual, his hand raised and his face contorted with fury. We can all condemn that, can’t we? But what if the angry face is familiar, seen thousands of times in a very different context? If it belongs, say, to the world’s most famous and admired (…)

• Mink Strains of Covid Show the Potential Folly of a Vaccine | Martha Rosenberg

  5 December 2020, by Martha Rosenberg

  by Martha Rosenberg
  November 13, 2020
  The role of China’s wet markets in producing Covid is ignored for two reasons. Vaccines that Pharma is developing with $1 billion of our tax dollars would be shown to be a fool’s errand as new animal strains erupt from the markets. And wild-eyed conspiracists, when they aren’t exposing Satanic cultists who eat babies, call the virus a “bioweapon” not an outgrowth of animal practices. (Were the animal originated SARS, MERS, Ebola, Avian Flu and HIV (…)

• India’s Adultrated Honey - An investigation by the CSE

  5 December 2020

  The biggest brands producing honey have been exposed — so has the food product many consumed for its health benefits. A study conducted by the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) tested 22 samples of honey from 13 Indian brands. [ . . . ]
  Read More at: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/video/health/it-s-not-honey-how-the-magic-syrup-beat-indian-testing-protocols-74496