Author: Dilip

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Ex-Civil Servants Urge Election Commission to prod SBI to Furnish Information on Electoral Bonds Before Lok Sabha Polls

As many as 79 former civil servants, representing Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG), described the State Bank of India’s request for time until June 30 to release donor data as ‘wholly unjustified’. This was before the resignation of one of the Commissioners) New Delhi: As many as 79 former civil servants, under the banner of Constitutional Conduct… Read More Ex-Civil Servants Urge Election Commission to prod SBI to Furnish Information on Electoral Bonds Before Lok Sabha Polls

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Fill the Streets of Israel and Make It Known: Netanyahu Must Go

GAZA casualties live statistics Haaretz Editorial Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for the greatest disaster to befall Israel since its establishment. Five months have passed since October 7, but Netanyahu and his partners still haven’t seen fit to accept responsibility. Quite the contrary. He and his government have used the time since then to… Read More Fill the Streets of Israel and Make It Known: Netanyahu Must Go

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The National Human Rights Commission is a Wolf in Wolf’s Clothing

NHRC office-bearers are handpicked to ensure that the charter of human rights remains merely on paper. Although meant to protect the citizens, the rights body has instead resorted to covering the government’s violations.  M.G. Devasahayam Democracy, the highest form of human rights, is at peril in India today. The 2023 V-Dem Institute at the University… Read More The National Human Rights Commission is a Wolf in Wolf’s Clothing

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American Colleges Contend With a Tidal Wave of New Undergraduate Unions

By  Forest Hunt Before 2022, only two colleges had a union representing undergraduate workers. Now undergraduate students at two large universities and at least seven other colleges have unionized since October — accelerating a trend that began 18 months ago. Last week, 20,000 student workers across the California State University system voted to form a union, following… Read More American Colleges Contend With a Tidal Wave of New Undergraduate Unions

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Released from jail after a decade, Professor Saibaba says ‘it’s a miracle to be alive’

NB: The High Court said the sanction for prosecution granted under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) was null and void; and had been given by the state authority without ‘application of mind’. It also said the report by the independent authority recommending invocation of UAPA provisions was a ‘cryptic and a laconic half page… Read More Released from jail after a decade, Professor Saibaba says ‘it’s a miracle to be alive’

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‘He had no idea he was being sent to a war zone’: the Indian and Nepalese men on frontlines in Ukraine

Signing up for jobs in Russia, Germany or Dubai, young men have been ‘made to join the Russian military’, their families say When Hemil Mangukiya left his small village in the Indian state of Gujarat last December, he told his family he was off to Russia to make a better living than was possible at home in… Read More ‘He had no idea he was being sent to a war zone’: the Indian and Nepalese men on frontlines in Ukraine

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Trump is degenerating before our eyes — MAGA voters don’t notice or don’t care

By AMANDA MARCOTTE Despite the best efforts of the Beltway press to present him as a spry young man next to 81-year-old Joe Biden, it’s getting harder by the day to ignore that 77-year-old Donald Trump is decompensating rapidly. He wasn’t all that healthy or coherent to begin with but, lately, watching him speak has the… Read More Trump is degenerating before our eyes — MAGA voters don’t notice or don’t care

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