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PM Modi arrogant when we met to discuss Farmers Protest—Meghalaya Gov. Satya Pal Malik says

Addressing a social function at Dadri in Haryana, Malik said, “When I met PM Modi on the farmers’ issue, I fought with him within 5 minutes. He was very arrogant. When I said that 500 farmers have died, he asked…

2021 marks decrease in journo-killings globally: PEC

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, wishes all media workers around the world a happy, secured and prosperous new year 2022. The bygone year witnessed the killing of 79 media employees by assailants in…

Life Dances On

POEM     by Erlie Lopez two am of a new year after raising a wineglass to the eve countdown the future spirals into my daze abed with a clock ticking in my head in seeming calendar whirl – one,…

Morning Time

PROSE POEM     Early morning is sacred time. Time to look far into the lightening horizon, calmly searching for signs inscribed in the skies. Time to look heavenward, there where the moon still sits high upon her throne, sharing…

Losing public goodwill: Assam media’s way 

Public reactions against a news item in any newspaper or news channel may be usual in India, but public outrages in digital platforms against the mainstream media outlets for not covering a particular issue is definitely an unusual phenomenon. The…

Neighborhood Campaign by Humanist Centre to demand a Speed Breaker

Sunder Nagar is a residential colony that was set up between 1975 to 1980. It is situated in between Goregaon and Malad, a suburb of Mumbai, India and has a population of approximately 1,00,000 people. The colony has the Dr…

Philippine Environmental NGOs Give Thumbs-Up to Supreme Court  Resolution Addressing Plastic Pollution Crisis

26 December 2021, Quezon City.  The immediate resolution of a landmark plastic pollution lawsuit filed last October 27 by members of the civil society to compel the government to act on non-environmentally acceptable products and packaging (NEAPP) has received a…

China Strengthening its Diplomacy in Africa’s Health Sector

China and Africa will always be a community of a shared future. At least, its policy is strategically focused at addressing sustainable development, and China has in deed proved, over the years, in many aspect of dealing with Africa. Results…

Rare praise from Pakistan is recognition of Bangladesh’s surprising success story

by Pathik Hasan Before Bangladesh got its independence from Pakistan in 1971 after a bloody struggle, Pakistan had been exploiting then East Pakistan systematically and Islamabad’s economy was built on the money of the Bengali-majority areas. However, the newly independent…

Jammu & Kashmir Electricity Workers Movement’s strike against the government’s privatization move a success

Sri Shankar Dasgupta, General Secretary of All India United Trade Union Centre (AIUTUC) has issued the following statement on the victory of the Jammu & Kashmir Electricity Workers Movement’s strike last December 21, 2021: ”The Electricity Workers of Jammu &…

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