2025

All India Federation of University & College Teachers’ Organisations (AIFUCTO)
Patna/New Delhi 15 January 2025
PRESS RELEASE
All India Federation of University & College Teachers’ Organisations (AIFUCTO) opposes Draft UGC (Minimum qualification for appointment and promotion of Teachers and Academic staff in universities and college and Measures for the maintenance of standard in Higher Education Regulation 2025
Dated on 06.01.2025
AIFUCTO President Prof. Dr. M. NAGARAJAN (…)

The latest Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the envoys of both Biden and Trump that is to start on January 19th has been accepted by Hamas but still has to get formal Israeli Cabinet approval because some far-right partners in his coalition government are opposed to it. However, Netanyahu has the necessary majority both in the Cabinet and Knesset (parliament) to get it accepted. There might be a delay in its starting but with the US supporting the deal it is extremely (…)

Communist Party of India
New Delhi,
January 17, 2025
Press Release
CPI reiterates its solidarity with the people of Cuba
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (January 17, 2025) the following statement:
The Communist Party of India (CPI) reiterates its unwavering solidarity with the people of Cuba and underscores the critical importance of continued support for their sovereignty and resilience. Cuba has long been a beacon of socialist principles, (…)

2025 Nuclear-Free Future Awards laureates announced
For immediate release
TAKOMA PARK, MD, January 14, 2025— The 2025 Nuclear-Free Future Awards will this year honor individuals from Brazil, India, Navajo country, the United States and Zimbabwe for their achievements in working for a nuclear-free world.
The Award laureates are chosen by an international jury of their peers and are offered in three categories: Resistance, Education and Solution. The 2025 laureates are: S.P. Udayakumar (…)

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Dismantling the League of Nations: The Quiet Death of an International Organization, 1945-8
by Jane Mumby
Bloomsbury Academic
2024. ix + 252 pp.
(e-book (pdf)), ISBN 978-1-350-37690-8;
(e-book), ISBN 978-1-350-37692-2
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Reviewed by Madeleine Dungy
Today, as multilateral organizations are coming under strain, it has become clear that we lack insight into the processes through which they might be streamlined, (…)

* Why India

Letter to the readers, Mainstream
Indian society remains a conservative place with limited respect for legally guaranteed individual/personal rights of adult citizens. In the name of traditional values, community, caste, religion, and family carry greater weight compared to individuals and their rights and choices. In any society people trying to build personal relationships require places to interact, meet, to socialise, and need space and privacy. Personal space is under constant (…)

January 6, 2025
Its ability to set the terms of the national discourse and political agility prompts BJP leaders to claim that they will be in power for a few more decades.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has asserted that it will be in power for a long time.
Indian Home Minister Amit Shah recently claimed that the party would be at the helm for the next 15 years [1]. Earlier, in 2015, he had said the next 30-year period would be the era of the BJP [2].
The party has been in (…)