2023

All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
Press Release
The following statement was issued to the press by AITUC Secretariat today-23rd March 2023
AITUC condemns the draconian and vindictive Govt. Instructions to ban the struggle of Central Govt. Employees against the No Guarantee NPS !
The entire Central Govt. Employees, Paramilitary Forces, State Govt. Employees and Teachers are in a nationwide movement against the no guarantee pension scheme introduced by the BJP Govt. in 2003. After (…)

Communist Party of India
New Delhi,
March 24, 2023
Press Release
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (on March 24, 2023):
The Communist Party of India condemns the detention of Members of Parliament belonging to opposition parties who wanted to meet the President of India with several issues. The action of the Delhi Police, under direct control of Union Home Ministry, detaining prominent leaders of the opposition including (…)

PRESS STATEMENT
Editors Guild of India is deeply concerned about the excessive use of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) against journalists, most recently, in the case of the arrest of Irfan Mehraj, a Kashmir-based journalist, by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). According to reports, on the afternoon of March 20, Irfan was called by an investigator on his mobile phone and told to come for a few minutes to the local NIA office in Srinagar. Thereafter he was arrested and (…)

Press Release
About 2500 people from across the 17 villages impacted by the development of Dr. K Shivaram Karanth Layout, as well as from across various parts of India have signed a representation to the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Karnataka, Sri. Basavaraj Bommai, urging him to immediately issue an ordinance to protect the fundamental rights of farmers, pastoralists, dalits, backward classes and other communities of 17 villages in the Bengaluru North Taluk, who are adversely impacted by the (…)

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Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman by Charles Dunst Hodder & Stoughton Pages: 428; Price: Rs 799
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A world increasingly in turmoil is locked in a bitter battle of ideas: democracy versus autocracy. There was a time when it seemed that democracy would simply overwhelm the world barring isolated spots. No more. As international affairs specialist and author Charles Dunst points out, autocracies and dictatorships of (…)

Reviewed by Sarah Stanford-McIntyre (University of Colorado Boulder)
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Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility
by Jessica M. Smith
Engineering Studies Series
Cambridge: MIT Press
2021. Illustrations. 328 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-262-54216-6; (e-book), ISBN 978-0-262-36242-9 free (open access), ISBN 978-0-262-36615-1.
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Published on H-Environment (February, 2023)
Extracting Accountability is an account of how engineers in the mining (…)

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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 18, 2023
In the past week, the media machine and top leaders of BJP - India’s ruling Party have gone in top gear to target the Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi for his recent remarks in the UK, suggesting deteriorating condition of India’s democratic institutions, under the Government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Many serving ministers have spoken out in the Parliament against Rahul Gandhi along with other leaders of the BJP in this hot (…)

On the 28th of February, we celebrated National Science Day in India. This day commemorates Indian physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman’s discovery of light scattering by molecules of a medium in 1928

by L K Sharma
“The clawing “foreign hand” is out to harm the Prime Minister and the nation”, Indians are warned. It caused a triple whammy, unleashing on India a foreign broadcasting company, a foreign corporation, and an old American.
The “foreign hand” reached out from the evil West that breeds human rights, activists, and anti-corruption crusaders. It appeared as a European NGO and an Australian journalist. It used a British university and a think tank. It made The New York Times and (…)