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• Is there any win-win solution for resolving the man-wildlife conflict? | Tarun Kumar Basu

  31 July 2020, by Tarun Kumar Basu

  "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated." - Mahatma Gandhi
  Now we have started understanding between the lines of the above quotation. Some heart-rending incidents happened in recent past in the country that caused national and international indignation. A wild pregnant elephant at Palakkad village in Kerala ate a fruit, filled with firecrackers that unfortunately exploded in her mouth. She was unable to chew any food and (…)

• The Russian whistleblower risking it all to expose the scale of an Arctic oil spill catastrophe | Mary Ilyushina, CNN

  31 July 2020

  We were a few kilometers from the Siberian city of Norilsk, where six weeks ago a huge fuel tank at a power plant ruptured, spilling thousands of tons of diesel into the river.
  The owner of the plant, the Nornickel metals giant, says the spill was quickly contained, and the damage limited. Ryabinin has sacrificed his job and his family’s future in Norilsk in an attempt to lift the lid on what environmentalists have called the worst ecological catastrophe in the polar Arctic.

• What’s up at NATO? | Xanthe Hall

  31 July 2020

  by Xanthe Hall
  July 16, 2020
  You could be excused for having missed the fact that NATO is in the process of updating its nuclear strategy, including substantial and significant steps. These include technologically more ambitious weapons that can be used more easily. This is the implementation of a decision made at the NATO Warsaw Summit in 2016 to revise nuclear strategy. In order to follow what’s going on, you have to dig deep on the internet. While this is a little easier because of (…)

• Chart: What Countries Spend on Health Care vs. Military | Eva Finch, July 13, 2020

  31 July 2020

  What does the world spend more money on: war or health? Eva Finch, July 13, 2020 PixlParade.com

• Women unite in maverick attempt to unseat Lukashenko in Belarus | Andrew Roth

  31 July 2020

  Three women are spearheading a maverick opposition campaign for next month’s presidential election in Belarus, transforming the country’s politics as they attempt to unseat Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled for 25 years.

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  Video: The rise of unreason | Pervez Hoodbhoy | TEDxIslamabad

  31 July 2020
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  Video: A Critique of the India’s Draft Environment Impact Assessment Notification 2020 | Let India Breathe

  31 July 2020

  The draft EIA 2020 is Pro Industry - Pro Big business and Puts People and Ecosystems at Risk. Here is a video explainer

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  Sketch of M. N. Roy by Isaak Brodsky at the Second Congress of the Comintern in July 1920

  31 July 2020

• It Rains Muck of Corruption Everywhere | Khurshid Alam

  31 July 2020

  I’ve heard that it rains fish at some places Gold at some other places. It rained muck of corruption At our places this monsoon.
  Some roads in Delhi caved in The mud filled the underbridges in Mumbai. Some newly laid roads have been washed away Even the 260-crore rich Sattargarh bridge In Bihar has been swept away.
  The rivers have swallowed the costly bunds The concrete roads have turned into pools of mud Houses, people, and animals are submerged Municipalities and hospitals are full (…)

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  Table of Contents Mainstream - Lockdown Edition no.18 | July 25, 2020

  24 July 2020

  Table of Contents - Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 32, New Delhi, July 25, 2020 Letter to the Readers Mainstream, Covid-19 Lockdown Edition no.18 -July 25 | The Editor When the State Fears a Poet | Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla June 25 1975/July 25 2020: Reflections on a Prison in Delhi | Uma Chakravarti Pandemic puts India in ‘precarious position’ | M. K. Bhadrakumar Covid Redefines the State | D.K. Giri Why 2020 is not 1962 | Praveen Davar DOCUMENT: Memo to Election Commission of India from (…)