Mainstream WeeklyAll India Kisan Sabha
18th August 2023
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Modi-Adani-Niti Aayog Project to Corporatise Agriculture Exposed
AIKS Demands Joint Parliamentary Committee Probe
The recent investigation by The Reporters’ Collective has exposed the sinister nexus and larger design of the Modi-led Union Government, the Niti Aayog, and leading corporates led by Adani, to loot Indian farmers and consumers by corporatising Indian agriculture. The two-part investigative series, titled “Ahead of (…)
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Afghanistan: UN human rights experts denounce idea of “reformed” Taliban | Statement, Aug 14, 2023
18 August 2023United Nations - ohchr.org
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GENEVA (14 August 2023) – Two years after seizing power in Afghanistan, the Taliban continues to violate many human rights including implementing a system of total discrimination, exclusion and subjugation of women and girls, UN experts said today. The gap between promises and practices by Afghanistan’s de facto authorities has widened and the idea of a “reformed” Taliban has been exposed as mistaken, the experts said. To mark that (…) -
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The Raging Himalayas and A Warming Planet: Recollections of the 2003 Himalayan Floods and Reflections on Global Warning by Asokan Vengassery Krishnan
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Carol Winkler Review of The Taliban’s Virtual Emirate by Neil Krishan Aggarwal
18 August 2023BOOK REVIEW
Reviewed by Carol Winkler (Georgia State University)
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The Taliban’s Virtual Emirate: The Culture and Psychology of an Online Militant Community
by Neil Krishan Aggarwal
Columbia University Press
2016. xix + 211 pp. Ill. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-17426-8
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