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Prafulla Samantara Receives The Goldman Environmental Prize, Asia, 2017
Prafulla Samantara, National Convener, National Alliance of Peoples’ Movements and the leader of Lokshakti Abhiyan, Orissa has been awarded The Goldman Environmental Prize, Asia, 2017. The Goldman Environmental Prize honours the achievements and leadership of grassroots environmental activists for their sustained and significant efforts to protect and enhance the Natural environment.
On Anzac Day Australia Ignores Its Complicity in Horrendous War Crimes & Climate Crimes
by Dr Gideon Polya
25 April is Anzac Day commemorating the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) invasion of Turkey at Gallipoli in 1915, the day after the commencement of the Turkish Armenian Genocide (1.5 million Armenians killed) that was precipitated by the prior prolonged Allied naval bombardment. On Anzac Day Australians utterly ignore Australia’s complicity in horrendous UK and US war crimes. Australia has a secret genocide history that is resolutely ignored by White Australians.
The Conspiracy Behind Babri Demolition
by Ram Puniyani
After the long wait, the Supreme Court Chief Justice J.S. Khehar opined that long pending dispute of Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid should be settled out of court. (March 2017) He even offered to mediate himself in the matter. Uniformly most of the spokesperson from RSS Combine welcomed the move, while large number of Muslims and other elements have been surprised as the Court was approached for justice and not or compromise formula.
More Aadhaar Numbers Leaked On Chandigarh PDS And Swacch Bharat Mission Websites
Raising major privacy concerns truck loads of Aadhaar numbers and other personal details of individuals are being leaked. Yesterday, it was revealed that the personal details over one millions Aadhaar subscribers were leaked on a website run by the Jharkhand Directorate of Social Security. Today, it is reported that the Aadhar numbers and other personal details of Public Distribution System (PDS) users of Chandigarh government were displayed on its website and in another incident plenty of aadhaar numbers are displayed on the central government’s Ministry of Water and Sanitation’s website (Swacch Bharat Mission). Both the websites are hosted by National Informatics Centre.
As Colleges re-open, Clashes In Kashmir
by Mir Suhail
As colleges opened on Monday in Kashmir after five days, students of Shri Pratap Higher Secondary school clashed with police in Srinagar. Students held a march from the school premises and marched towards MA road, making their way by breaking the gate of school. The students later blocked road that was followed by clashes between forces and the students.
A Fallen Republic’s New War Against Kashmiris
by Basharat Shameem
Amidst all this, and as the Orwellian lines rightly allude to, a new repressive dialectic has been enacted by the superstructure of oppression in our ‘Republic’ for Kashmiris in which they have to choose between Silence and Death. In the past one month alone, as if 2016 was not enough, 13 Kashmiri protesters have been killed, beginning with Chadoora.
Our Common Oceans And Seas
by Rene Wadlow
The United Nations is currently preparing a world conference 5-7 June 2017 devoted to the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal N° 14: Conserve and sustainable use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. Non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the U.N. are invited to submit recommendations for the governmental working group which is meeting 24 to 27 April in New York.
Mike Pence in Oz
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Vassal visiting time, and the next slot in the US imperium tourism schedule was one of America’s more cosy allies, Australia. The US Vice President Mike Pence popped in to keep an eye on matters just to make sure that all was in order.
Putin’s World: Reactive Mismeasures: The New Yorker and the “New” Cold War Propaganda (Part 3)
by Thomas Riggins
This is the third part (of 5 ) of a paragraph by paragraph commentary on a recent article posing as journalism in the March 6, 2017 issue of The New Yorker. I hope to demonstrate that this article is basically a totally mendacious concoction of cold war US propaganda constructed out of unsubstantiated opinions expressed by US government officials and various journalists and others who are hostile to the current Russian government.
South Indians Are Black: Tarun Vijay Learned It Sitting At The Feet Of His Guru Golwalkar
by Shamsul Islam
Tarun Vijay told Al Jazeera whatever he learnt sitting at the feet of his GURU. Incidentally, if Tarun had made such a racist comment in USA or Europe, he would have been behind bars.
MaaAranganathan (1932-2017): Chonicler of the Ordinary
In the demise of MaaAranganathan, 83,the Tamil literary world has lost a writer known for bringing out deep meaning and great beauty through very simple, detailed depictions of the mundane.
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