2025

Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) Email: idpd2001[at]hotmail.com
Date: 22.01.2025
Press Note
In a letter written to the Finance Minister Mrs. Nirmala Sitharaman, the Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) has demanded that allocation to health should be increased to at least 3% of the GDP in the upcoming budget. Considering the GDP in 2023-24 as 173.82 lakh crores, the allocation to the health in the previous budget of the central government which was 89287 (…)

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A Maverick in Politics
by Mani Shankar Aiyar
Juggernaut
Pages: 410 Price: Rs 711
ISBN: 9789353457679
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At a time when commentaries on current affairs have become a rarity, three-term Congress MP, Mani Shankar Aiyar

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The Rout of Prabhakaran
by M.R. Narayan Swamy
Konark
Pages: xvii + 142; Price Rs 895
(Also includes Inside an Elusive Mind: Prabhakaran: The First Profile of the World

* Demand for MG-NREGA work growing, additional budget needed | Bharat Dogra
* Manmohan Singh

Letter to the readers, Mainstream, 18 Jan 2025
A deal has been negotiated between Israel and Hamas for a ceasefire in Gaza and is supposed to take effect starting Jan 19. All must welcome this ceasefire agreement. Let us hope there are no last-minute hick-ups and that the ceasefire happens and the process of release of Israeli hostages begins in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and ultimately ending the 15-month-long genocidal war that has killed over 60 thousand and displaced a million (…)

The coordinator of Mahila Sangathan (women

January 21, 2025 Indian citizens, regardless of their religion, have freedom of dignity in life, and in death, assurances that are seldom kept
In the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, villagers, local authorities and even the state’s High Court have denied a Christian man the right to bury his father’s body in the village graveyard.
There is no peace of the graveyard yet for Subhash Bhaghel who died on Jan. 7 in Chindhwara district in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
In a (…)

January 16, 2025
The University Grants Commission ( UGC) recently came up with a draft regulation which covers many important aspects connected with higher education and its governance statures. Its key features need o be dissected.
At the outset, it must be underlined that the draft regulations are outside UGC

It is a good development that the Samyuykt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has indicated a supportive attitude towards the farmers’ resistance movement being carried out under the joint aegis of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha at Khanauri and Shambhu borders. The talks among the leadership are going on in a positive atmosphere. One can hope that by learning from past experiences and forgetting the differences, if any, all farmers’ organizations in the country will unite (…)

Jan 14, 2025
A chorus for giving an unwept burial to the INDIA bloc, which till nine months back was perceived as the emancipator to the poor and oppressed and a challenger to the rightist ideology and a secular claimant to power, is reverberating the political circle. It is quite astonishing to see that the pitch of the chorus is not being raised by the saffron ecosystem. Instead leaders of the INDIA bloc, Arvind Kejriwal, Akhilesh Yadav, Mamata Banerjee, Omar Abdullah, Tejashvi Yadav (…)