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  Statement On Rights Of Migrant Workers In The Pandemic Context And Building A Post-covid Economy In Odisha

  31 July
  Development Research Institute (A Research Unit of Gabeshana Chakra Regd. No. 21719/153 of 2003-04 ) 34, Laxmi Vihar, Bhubaneswar-751005, Email: mmohantydu[at]gmail.com sansristi[at]gmail.com
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  For Immediate Release
  July 20, 2020  (...)

• Covid 19 and Furthering of Sectarian Agenda in Education | Ram Puniyani

  31 July

  As Covid 19 has created havoc all rounds, the rulers of certain countries are using it to further intensify their set agendas. The democratic freedoms are being curtailed in certain forms

• Nomination of Lavasa In Asian Development Bank: Blow To Integrity of Referee | Vijay Kumar

  31 July

  The Modi Government’s decision to nominate Ashok Lavasa, an Election Commissioner, who was slated to become the next Chief Election Commissioner in April 2021, as a Vice President of Asian Development Bank has fateful implications for democracy.

• Status of Transgender Students In Schools Part of Our Current Education System | Bhumika Rajdev

  31 July
  by Bhumika Rajdev
  July 30, 2020
  According to the 2011 census, the total population of transgender is around 4,87,803 out of which 57.06% are literate as compared to 74% of the total population. In 2011, there were 54,854 trans children in the  (...)

• Surrender of Temple of Jagannath, Puri | Atulkrishna Biswas

  31 July
  by Dr. Atulkrishna Biswas
  Part-I Jagannath Temple, Puri surrendered to East India Company, 1803!
  18th September 1803 marked the black day which saw the launch of a campaign for “occupation of the province of Cuttack” by East India Company in 14  (...)

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

  31 July, 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  (...)

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

  31 July

  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
  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  (...)

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

  31 July

  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

  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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