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• 50 years of Stockholm: From Environment to Sustainability | Swapan Kumar Sil

  22 July 2022

  by Swapan Kumar Sil *
  SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT is a concept.
  How far it is applicable in the real world is still uncertain. But the world leaders are persistently hopeful that we will get over the crisis arising from environmental degradation and pollution by anchoring this concept.
  After the industrial revolution in Europe, development and environment were never friendly to each other; yet, in 1972, the highly intrusive and consumerist nations took their first step to get together (…)

• New Amendments to Forest Rights Act 2006 To help Big corporations | Soma Marla

  22 July 2022, by Soma S. Marla

  Dr. Soma Marla *
  While nominating Smt. Draupadi Murmu [as a candidate in India’s Presidential Election 2022], the ruling BJP boasted a savior of tribal people. However, by proposing changes to Forest Rights Act, 2996, the government is doing quite the opposite by subverting the interests of tribal people to benefit big companies.
  During the current monsoon session of Parliament, new rules are proposed to the present Forest Rights Act 2006. These changes run against the interests of (…)

• Why Does the World Food Situation Appear To Be More and More Precarious? | Bharat Dogra

  22 July 2022, by Bharat Dogra

  In a statement on June 24, the UN-Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned,“ There is a real risk that multiple famines will be declared in 2022.”
  He went on to add, “2023 could be even worse.”
  In a message to a meeting of representatives of several countries being held at Berlin, Mr. Guterres said that the world faces catastrophe because of the growing shortage of food caused by climate change, the pandemic, growing inequalities and on top of that the Ukraine war.
  As farming takes a (…)

• Post-Gotabaya: Is Lanka confused? | Apratim Mukarji

  22 July 2022, by Apratim Mukarji

  Their protest against misgovernance has succeeded beyond belief, but Sri Lankans appear to be a bit confused. They are of course rejoicing at the complete fall of the Rajapaksas from absolute power. Yet, one sentence in ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksas’s resignation letter has sent them thinking and thinking deeply.
  “I have contributed my utmost for the country and in the future too, I will contribute for the country,” Gotabaya Rajapaksa said in his resignation letter which was (…)

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  Statement by Bar Association of Sri Lanka on the Declaration of the State of Emergency

  22 July 2022

  BAR ASSOCIATION OF SRI LANKA
  18.07.2022.
  STATEMENT BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SRI LANKA ON THE DECLARATION OF EMERGENCY
  The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) notes that a State of Emergency has been declared by the Acting President with effect from 18th July 2022, the third time since April 1" 2022 that the country has been placed under the same. On one such occasion the State of Emergency was rescinded by the President before any Regulations were made (…)

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  Roll back these GST Hikes | Press Statement by CPI(M) July 20, 2022

  22 July 2022

  Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2022
  The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
  The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the latest round of unprecedented burdens imposed on the people through the GST hikes on all essential commodities such as pre-packaged rice, wheat, milk. The PB demands that these hikes be immediately rolled back.
  Independent India abandoned the (…)

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  Text of Press Release by Margaret Alva - joint opposition candidate for the post of Vice President of the Republic of India | July 20, 2022

  22 July 2022

  [Margaret Alva has been a five Term Member of Parliament in India. She is a Lawyer. Former Union Minister & Governor. Kannada Rajyotsava Awardee. She is a joint opposition candidate for the post of Vice President of India, 2022, she has issued the below press release via her Twitter account: @alva_margaret]
  Margaret Alva
  [July 20, 2022]
  PRESS RELEASE
  It is a privilege and honour to be nominated as the candidate of the joint opposition for the post of Vice President of the (…)

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  Statement of the Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan on the recent Supreme Court judgment in the case of the Gompad Massacre of 2009

  22 July 2022

  Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan
  PRESS RELEASE: | [July 20, 2022]
  On 14th July 2022, Supreme Court dismissed a writ petition filed by Himanshu Kumar and twelve other people in a 2009 case that sought an independent investigation in the extra-judicial killings of Adivasis in the villages of (then Dantewada) now Sukma district of Chhattisgarh. This came to be known as the Gompad massacre, and it includes two major incidents of violence in September and October 2009 that happened in the (…)

• When Accused Become Innocent and Innocent Are Made Accused | Sandeep Pandey

  22 July 2022, by Sandeep Pandey

  Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathu Ram Godse. There are some people subscribing to Hindutva ideology who idolize Godse. Various leaders, and activists associated with the Hindutva ideology from time to time have portrayed Godse as a patriot. The question is Gandhi was the tallest leader of India’s freedom movement and even before India achieved independence Godse was making an attempt to kill Gandhi, so, how could Godse be a patriot? But by describing Godse as a patriot Mahatma (…)

• Contractual soldiers: The natural outcome of neoliberal reforms | Prem Singh

  22 July 2022, by Prem Singh

  It is true that the Agnipath recruitment scheme is a contractual-soldier scheme. That is, a youth of 17 to 21 years of age will be recruited in the three armies on a contract for four years term. They will not be entitled to the facilities and social security available to the regular soldiers till now. (The concessions being talked about after massive, and widespread violent protests against the scheme are the government’s after-thought. How long this after-thought will last cannot be said.) (…)