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  PMSF statement on clearance granted to Covid vaccines by DCGI (Drug Controller General of India) [Jan 5, 2020]

  9 January 2021

  Progressive Medicos and Scientists Forum Office Address: 2nd Floor [Left] 1527 C, Gali No. 13, Govindpuri, Kalkaji, New Delhi India, 110019
  5th January 2021
  India ranks high among the countries worst affected by COVID19 pandemic. It need also be acknowledged that when developed in strict conformity with the principles of science and epidemiological rationale, vaccines have played an important role in advancement of health and wellbeing of the human race as also of other species that (…)

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  Scrap the "Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance" Immediately - Full Text of Call by 133 Rights groups and 858 Citizens

  9 January 2021

  Press Release
  Since the UP Govt has passed The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance 2020 on 27th November 2020, there have been strange incidents of young people walking together or simply knowing each other being picked up and charged by the police. This is what young people ask about this Ordinance - At the age of 18, we can vote for our councillors, MLAs, MPs. At 18, we decide who will make and implement policies that affect us, our loved ones, our (…)

• The Taliban are megarich – here’s where they get the money they use to wage war in Afghanistan | Hanif Sufizada

  9 January 2021

  by Hanif Sufizada *
  December 8, 2020
  The Taliban militants of Afghanistan have grown richer and more powerful since their fundamentalist Islamic regime was toppled by U.S. forces in 2001.
  In the fiscal year that ended in March 2020, the Taliban reportedly brought in US$1.6 billion, according to Mullah Yaqoob, son of the late Taliban spiritual leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, who revealed the Taliban’s income sources in a confidential report commissioned by NATO and later obtained by Radio (…)

• Fundamentalists Make Hay While the Sun Shines | Humra Quraishi

  9 January 2021, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS
  January 6, 2021
  As I sit writing this week’s column, there’s heavy downpour and thunder and lightning, in and around the capital city, New Delhi. With that in the background or foreground, my heart is with the farmers, who are braving it out, taking on Nature’s onslaughts together with the political treachery. The level of the Sarkari ruthlessness can be judged from the fact that though till date over 50 farmers have died, in fact, martyred, during their ongoing peaceful (…)

• West Bengal: Official recognition and Rediscovery of the Dalit Reality in First Sahitya Sabha | Manosanta Biswas

  9 January 2021

  Summary:
  ‘West Bengal Dalit Sahitya Academy’ under ‘Information and Broadcast Department’ of West Bengal government was recently set up. In the domain of progressive Bengali literature always repudiated the Dalit reality and literary culture. After four decades of struggle in West Bengal, Bengali Dalit literature has finally received official recognition of the Government. The first meeting of the Academy successfully showcased its own alternative literature which has been reported in this (…)

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  National Exam on Cow Science - Cartoon by Jayaraj Vellur

  9 January 2021

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  India to hold nationwide ‘cow science’ exam https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/7/india-to-hold-nationwide-cow-science-exam ]

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  Ruler Artwork by Sagari Chhabra (Jan 2, 2021)

  9 January 2021

• Ode To The Year 2020

  9 January 2021, by Sagari Chhabra

  We thought we were done With wars, famine and the plague, When something so vague, Without so much as a look Simply overtook, our lives. A couple started walking with bundles of clothes, Their sleeping child atop a trundling suitcase; They left in haste, At a frantic pace; For home. They were not alone; Thousands left Walking the road for miles, With no food, no water; Gnashed teeth – a smile. Beaten callously by the police on the way, Some reached, a few fell to the sway Of time; The (…)

• Diet Drug Pulled After Red Flags | Martha Rosenberg

  9 January 2021, by Martha Rosenberg

  by Martha Rosenberg *
  By now, most people are aware of the US obesity statistics. In 2016, almost 70 percent of US adults were obese of overweight says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That means normal sized people are in the minority. (Some are even considered "anorexics.")
  Today, the average American man weighs almost 198 pounds up from 166 pounds in the 1960s and the average American woman weighs 170 pounds up from 140 pounds in the 1960s. (The trend brings (…)

• Book on Life and work of Karl Polanyi | Edited by Brigitte Aulenbacher, Markus Marterbauer, Andreas Novy, Kari Polanyi Levitt, Armin Thurnher (2020)

  9 January 2021

  The International Karl Polanyi Society (IKPS)