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  Withdraw Cases, Allow Newspapers to Report - ILNA Press Release - July 29, 2021

  30 July 2021

  Indian Languages Newspapers Association
  Delhi Press Building
  E-8 Jhandewala Estate
  New Delhi 110055
  Press Release
  Indian Languages Newspapers Association is deeply concerned that the Newspapers, their owners, editors, correspondents, feature writers are being subjected to Income Tax Raids, Phone Tapping through new kinds of soft wares, frequent criminal cases filed from multiple places if the newspapers have written what is not liked by those in power. Newspapers are backbone of (…)

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  UN General Assembly Adopts June 18 as International Day for Countering Hate Speech

  30 July 2021

  United Nations Secretary-General
  26 July 2021
  Note to Correspondents: United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide welcomes the adoption by the General Assembly of an International Day for Countering Hate Speech
  The United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, welcomed the adoption by the General Assembly on 21 July of resolution A/75/L.115 on “Promoting interreligious and intercultural dialogue and tolerance in countering hate (…)

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  Joint Open Letter by Civil Society Organizations, and Independent Experts Calling on States to set legal limits requiring oversight on private surveillance firms

  30 July 2021

  We the undersigned civil society organizations and independent experts are alarmed at the media revelations that NSO Group’s spyware has been used to facilitate human rights violations around the world on a massive scale. These revelations are a result of the Pegasus Project and are based on the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets. The project is a collaboration of more than 80 journalists from 16 media organizations in 10 countries coordinated by Forbidden (…)

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  South Africa: Covid-19 Working Class Campaign Statement on Rioting | July 25, 2021

  30 July 2021

  CWCC Statement on the Rioting
  covid19 working class campaign 25/07/2021
  The events of last week shook up South African society, especially when sections of the masses in the provinces of Gauteng and Kwa-Zulu Natal entered the fray. The sheer scale of the events had the effect of compelling all classes – the ruling class, both capital and the ANC state, the middle classes and organisations of the working class – to nail their colours to the mast. Unsurprisingly, the ruling class and the (…)

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  Table of Contents, July 24, 2021

  23 July 2021

  * Creating A Parallel Pandemic via Waste Mis-Management In Patna | Raj & Raj
  * Centenary of Foundation of Communist Party of China | Anil Rajimwale
  * Chinese Communism: A Left Critique | Shubham Sharma
  * The reality of China’s fertility decline | Zhao & Zhang

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 24, 2021

  23 July 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 24, 2021
  The week began with major news of hack-in of phones using Pegasus spyware provided by NSO an Israeli Defence company (which licenses its technology to Governments only for counter-terrorism); this hacking of personal phones happened world wide on the journalists and on politicians etc. An international consortium of seventeen news media sites and newspapers in coordination with the Paris based Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International (…)

• The Politics of Defection: A Shattering Blow to the Indian Democracy and the Need for Stringent Provision | Nag & Bandyopadhyay

  23 July 2021

  by Gouri Sankar Nag and Manas Mukul Bandyopadhyay *
  The politics of defection is one of the major obstacles to the glory of parliamentary democracy in India. An Anti-Defection law was passed in the Parliament of India in 1985 through 52nd Amendment to the Constitution which added the 10th Schedule to the Constitution under the aegis of Rajiv Gandhi for the purpose of removing this obstacle. But if we think a little deeper we will see that even after 35 years of its passing the bulwark has (…)

• Bengal BJP Is In Deep Crisis Due To Growing Factionalism In Districts - Many More Saffron Legislators May Join Trinamool Congress Very Soon | Barun Das Gupta

  23 July 2021, by Barun Das Gupta

  (India Press Agency: July 19, 2021) The disastrous defeat of the BJP in assembly elections in Bengal has not only demoralized the party workers at all levels but has also intensified factionalism in the organization. The party which dreamed of winning two hundred plus seats and ruling West Bengal is now taking pride in the fact that its strength has risen from three legislators to 77 and that it has now become the only opposition party in the State Assembly. This is for public consumption. (…)

• India’s Political Institutions Suffering From Trust Deficit in wake of the Pegasus spy operation | Arun Arivastava

  23 July 2021

  by Arun Arivastava
  July 22, 2021
  Former American president Richard Nixon would have been feeling much happier lying in his grave that the Watergate scandal which finished his career and pushed him to political oblivion had lesser intensity and implication that the expose of the Pegasus of Israel’s NSO.
  The Watergate scandal focused at Nixon’s re-election. It began with the police apprehending five burglars for a break-in at the DNC headquarters in Washington DC on June 17, 1972. Four (…)

• How To Preserve, Protect & Defend The PM | TJS George

  23 July 2021, by T J S George

  IMPRESSIONS
  Just because somebody occupies the most exalted seat in the country, he does not automatically become the most appreciated personality in the country. Presidents like Rajendra Prasad and K. R. Narayanan became exalted and appreciated, not because they sat in that chair but because they conducted themselves with a dignity, decorum and propriety that won people’s appreciation. Alas, the current incumbent does not rise to that measure.
  Ramnath Kovind’s latest public (…)