The death anniversary of revolutionist, Marxist activist and freedom fighter, Laxmi Sahgal is marked on July 23. Bending the gender norms from a very young age, she stood up for women's rights. As she was an active part of the communist movement in India, various parties such as CPI(M) remembered her via media posts. Sahgal was one emancipated woman who was unapologetic about her ambitions. She never doubted her power and took every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve her dreams. Journey From A Doctor To Captain Laxmi Sahgal left India for Singapore because of her failed marriage to pilot P. K. N. Rao. Coincidentally, in Singapore, she met the members of Subhash Chandra Bose's INA, which was just in its inception. This chance meeting led to the making of her leg
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Almost 7,400 Square Kilometres Of Forest Land Under Encroachment: Centre
According to a statement by the Union environment minister in the Lok Sabha, Assam has the highest percentage of encroached forest area. Indian environment minister Bhupender Yadav has said that about 7,400 square kilometres of the forest area have been illegally occupied. On Monday, August 1, the minister announced that half of the country's encroached forest area was in the state of Assam alone. More than 3,775 square kilometres of forest area have been infringed upon. During a meeting with Sanganna Amarappa, an MP from Karnataka, the minister was asked about forest land encroachment and how the ministry reacted. The concerned MP requested a state-by-state list of forest areas that had been illegally occupied. As land is a state concern, the minister said, it is up to the state...
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After Six Months Of CIA Planning, Al Zawahiri Killed In His Balcony
The 9/11 attacks on America were plotted together by Al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden. More than 3,000 American citizens were killed in this attack. Osama bin Laden was killed by US Navy SEALs in an operation in Pakistan on May 2, 2011. President Joe Biden announced that al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had been killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan. Zawahiri became the leader of al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden was killed in a US action. The intelligence department had received information about Zawahiri hiding in his Kabul home with his family. Biden permitted the campaign last week, carried out on Sunday. Zawahiri was earlier hiding in Pakistan, but when the Taliban government came to Afghanistan, he also came to live here. It is said that the Taliban government's Home Minister and...
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Death Of Democracy In Myanmar: Aung Sang Suu Kyi’s Failure As A Democratic Icon
Myanmar’s democracy is dying a slow death in the wake of the executions of four pro-democracy activists and political prisoners by the military JUNTA. Aung Sang Suu Kyi’s democratic failure is proved by these incidents which were a beacon of hope for the Burmese public. The JUNTA has further announced the extension of the ‘emergency rule’ till 2023. 1948 Post Colonial Scenario The military has always been in power in Myanmar since its independence from Britain in 1948. Myanmar had parliamentary democracy but there was influenced heavily by the military. There were widespread infringement of dissent, peaceful protest, fundamental rights. There was a military coup led by General Ne Win in 1962. He imposed a harsh authoritarian rule in Myanmar by suspending the constitution. Suu Kyi led d...
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Digging Deep Into SSC Recruitment Scam: Is It Bigger Than Narada And Sarada Scam?
A single-judge bench of the Calcutta high court and a retired-judge-led committee appointed by a division bench over the past six months have unearthed at least 609 illegal appointments in group D employees' posts, 381 in clerical (group-C) posts, and an undetermined number of posts for assistant teachers for classes IX and X at government-sponsored and aided schools in West Bengal during 2019-20. It began in August and September last year, when job seekers Sandeep Prasad (Sanjay Kumar), Sabina Yasmin (Salman Khan), and Setab Uddin (Salman Khan) filed petitions in the Calcutta high court alleging anomalies in recruitments in three categories. As the session progressed, the judge continued asking for further papers, and other petitioners came up to provide additional instances. In its...
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Supreme Court To Set Up Bench To Hear Appeals Against Hijab Ban
India's Supreme Court on Tuesday, Aug. 2, said that it will set up an appellate panel to examine a number of appeals challenging the Karnataka high court's decision not to overturn the state's prohibition on students wearing the hijab in public schools. Senior counsel Meenakshi Arora, representing one of the appellants, made her arguments before a bench that included Chief Justice N.V. Ramana and Justices Krishna Murari and Hima Kohli. "A bench will be built by me. A judge is ill, according to the Chief Justice of India. Arora stated that the appeals against the high court judgement had been submitted back in March, but had not yet been scheduled for hearing. “Wait. According to CJI Ramana, if the judges had been okay, the subject would have come up. An agreement was made by Indi...
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Indian Politics of Defection: An Uninteresting Variant Of Dissidence
Defections from various political parties and the resulting deviation from norms such as "loyalty is not sellable," "pluralism is to be considered worthy of respect," and "politics that endorses improvement in the spheres of non-coercion or increasing but reasonable degrees of freedom" have recently led to the melancholy expression, "we were wrong in supporting, promoting, and protecting these defectors." Congress MPs in Madhya Pradesh (MP) and Karnataka as well as the Shiv Sena in Goa and, more lately, Maharashtra are heard using these kinds of rhetoric. Is the act of defection becoming the new standard for doing politics in India? This raises the most basic problems. What is the reason for the violations of the above-mentioned norms? And who is responsible for this? The act of def...
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Koffee With Karan: Chunky Pandey Reacts To Ananya Panday’s Episode
Bollywood actress Ananya Panday is just two films old in the Hindi film industry, but she has garnered a large fan following, and her fans expect a lot from her. She began her career with "Student Of The Year 2", in which she acted with Tiger Shroff and Tara Sutaria. Dharma Productions produced the film, and it was the second part of the "Student Of The Year" franchise. The flick didn't meet audiences' expectations as it was an average movie at the box office, but Ananya received good reviews for her work. Recently, Ananya Pandey won the Filmfare Best Female Debut for "Student Of The Year 2", and her father, Chunky Pandey, reacted remarkably to this connection. While speaking at a press conference, the "Pati Patni Aur Woh" actress revealed that from age five, she began rehears
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Russia-China Relations: Vladimir Putin Warns Washington Against ‘Inflammatory’ Moves Toward Beijing
The Kremlin has delivered robust help to Beijing amid anxieties over Taiwan, alerting the United States Of America against any "inflammatory actions" that could aggravate the crisis. Russian President Vladimir Putin showed strong backing to China amid the pressures over Taiwan, precautioning the U.S. against any "subversive" moves that could worsen the situation. Chinese President Xi Jinping alerted against interfering in China's dealings with Taiwan during a phone call Thursday with U.S. President Joe Biden. In a call with journalists, Moscow spokesman Dmitry Peskov expressed Kremlin staunchly backs Beijing's freedom and territorial integrity. "We think that no other nation has the right to reach (that) into suspicion or take any inflammatory steps," Peskov expressed. He forew
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Only 52% Children With HIV Receive Life-Saving Treatment Globally: WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO), along with other global partners including UNAIDS and UNICEF, announced on Tuesday that only half (52%) of children with HIV are on life-saving treatment worldwide. According to the UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2022 released recently, this figure among children lags behind that of adults where three quarters (76%) are taking antiretrovirals. WHO said, "Concerned by the stalling of progress for children, and the widening gap between children and adults, UNAIDS, UNICEF, WHO and partners have brought together a global alliance to ensure that no child living with HIV is denied treatment by the end of the decade and to prevent new infant HIV infections." The leaders at the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Canada announced the new Global Alli...
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Netherlands Panics After Russia Cuts Off Pipelines: Groningen Remains On Thine Ice
The Groningen gas field in the Netherlands is one of the largest sources of natural gas in Western Europe. Housing 2,740 Billion cubic metres worth of natural gas has been a crucial tool for the Dutch post-World War II economy. Until January 2013, earthquakes of 3.6 on the Richter scale were recorded. After the suspicion of extraction being the cause of earthquakes in the Groningen region, it was decided to limit the extraction. By September 2016, the extraction had been listed at 21.6 billion m³. However, in October 2017, the Zerjip earthquake in Groningen was recorded as the third strongest in magnitude. The earthquakes have led to more than 16,0 000 damages claims to date. This prompted the Eric webs commission to end the extraction from the gas fields by 2025-2030. Yet these plans r...
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UK-China Relations: London’s Thrift Cannot Afford To Break-Off From Beijing
Tony Danker, head general of the Confederation of British Industry, expressed that many UK enterprises are missing financial relations with Beijing in anticipation of a further decline in links between Beijing and the Western World. He also cautioned that this would stress the nation's already increased inflation. As the leader of the United Kingdom's premier trade association, Danker's statement shows that Beijing-London connections' problems and challenges may be above expectation. A considerable number of UK business's trading industry ties out of China due to political grounds is something neglected for decades. The change in demand idea was primarily caused by anxiety over the escalating pressures between the UK and China, for which British leaders should shoulder the guilt. So...
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