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Govt admits power deficit in Kashmir
Two years on, Edu Dept sits on inclusion of 6th language subject in curriculum
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The question Ishant Sharma would have won at the KBC
VDCs protest over pending salaries in Jammu
MVD team challans 108 vehicles for violation, seized 7, suspended 9 DL's
Post offices in J&K are fully functional: Prasad
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Justice Magray stresses on speeding up process of disposal of pending cases
Education vital for development of society, efforts afoot for improving its quality: Advisor Sharma
Comm Secy PHE reviews functioning of SCADA system, online water billing system
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Advisor Khan to hear public grievances on Dec 6 at Srinagar
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Refugee Act and not citizenship amendment bill is answer to asylum seekers from neighboring countries
If persecution of minorities in the neighbouring countries is the reason for dilution of the Citizenship Act, the Centre could have dealt with the problem through a different route.
The Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 which is ready to be introduced in the current session of Parliament is a new avatar of a similar bill that failed to pass through the last Rajya Sabha, and has serious adverse political implications for the indigenous people, the r...
India needs federal structure to preserve its unity
Is India a federation of States or is it unitary in its structure, with the Central Government calling the shots? Constitutionally it has been given a federal system, but at times leaders of the Union might have asserted their supremacy, but they have found that they c...
Global Health Crisis and Pesticides
The UK-based Independent online newspaper recently published an article about a potential link between air pollution from vehicles and glaucoma. It stated that according to a new study air pollution is linked to the eye condition that causes blindness. The report expl...
Explained: What fundamental duties mean
Over last few days, the Prime Minister, President, Vice President and Law Minister have been stressing Fundamental Duties. A look at what these duties are, and how they were included in the Constitution.
Over the last one week, the government has been making a pitch for fundamental duties. In his Constitution Day address to a Joint Session of Parliament last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed the importance of constitutional duties, while making a distinction ...
Failed action on the climate crisis makes resistance imperative
Climate Change
On December 2, the 25th two-week long United Nations climate conference begins in Madrid, Spain. The stated task of the conference, referred to as COP 25 (Conference Of Parties), is to make sure there are plans to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. The goal...
Reject the culture of Misogyny and democratize our socio-cultural spaces
The horrendous rape and murder of Hyderabad's vet doctor has again brought into light the dirty realities of our life that women remain the most vulnerable in India. The incidents of brutal rapes are fact of life here where leaders never get tired of sermonizing us of ...
Terror accused sitting inside Parliament
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Don't know how today's rulers can go on condemning terrorism at the various national and international forums, when they have a terror accused sitting right inside the Parliament! Obviously, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur got the vital ticket to fight the elections after much ca...
Interim Report of the Fact-Finding visit to Assam on the Updating of the NRC
Between the 5th and 10th of November 2019, a nine person team comprising of Nisha Biswas, Ajita Rao, Swapna, Maheen Mirza, Bondita, Nikita Agarwal, Seema, Sohini and Shreya K from Women against Sexual Violence and State repression visited the state of Assam in order to...
Environmental Protection Our Vanishing World: Wildlife
Throughout its history, Earth has experienced five mass extinction events. See, for example, 'Timeline Of Mass Extinction Events On Earth'. It is now experiencing the sixth. 1. The Ordovician-Silurian Extinction, which occurred about 439 million years ago, wiped out 8...
Student Movement and Public Education
The movement of Students along with other Universities and Institutes of Excellence in the country do raise questions on the importance of Public Education. Education in India has always received a low priority with only about 3% of the National Budget spent on Educati...
NRC implementation nation-wide spells danger
SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Last evening I was talking to a doctor activist who'd very recently visited Assam to interact with those affected by the National Register of Citizens (NRC), to listen to those deadly offshoots it carries for each one of them. What, with families fractured, with one or...
Climate Denial: A New Strategy
What a surprise! The annual emissions report by the United Nations is now out, and greenhouse gas emissions are still going up thirty years after we first realised there was a problem with the climate. In fact, they have gone up 15% in the past ten years. So much for t...
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