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Three-day National Strike of Defence Civilian Employees Brings All Units to Standstill
23 Jan 2019
The defence civilian employees are striking to protest privatisation, disinvestment in defence PSUs, the National Pension System, among other things.
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Anjum Habib Recounts Her Time in Tihar Jail as a Kashmiri Political Prisoner
19 Jan 2019
Newsclick talks to Anjum Habib, who was Kashmir's first woman to be charged with POTA.
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Yellow Vests Wave Continues With Broader, Transformative Demands
08 Jan 2019
Belying claims by critics that the movement was weakening, 50,000 protesters took to the streets of France over the weekend. Their demands included constitutional reform to introduce referendums on…
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Political Freedom in 2018: How Governments Responded To Dissent
01 Jan 2019
From terror plots to national security threats, political dissenters faced several charges and labels for raising their voice and questioning excessive power.
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Kashmir Descending into Chaos and the Role it can Play in 2019 Elections - Part II
22 Dec 2018
Gautam Navlakha discusses how the chaotic state of affairs in the state are taking its citizens further away from normalcy and also comments on how the BJP can use Jammu and Kashmir in the prelude to…
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Is Trump's Decision to Withdraw Troops from Syria Truly a Surprise?
22 Dec 2018
We talk about what Trump hopes to achieve with this, what it could mean for US relations with Turkey, as well as the role Russia could play now.
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Kashmir Descending into Chaos and the Role it can Play in 2019 Elections - Part I
21 Dec 2018
Civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha talks about recent events in Kashmir, including the Pulwama massacre, the imposition of President’s role, and the Panchayat polls, among other things. He…
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Will US Withdrawal from the INF Treaty Bring Us Closer to All-Out Nuclear War?
20 Dec 2018
Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick editor-in-chief, talks about the United States confirming its decision to withdraw from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) and dissects the arguments given by…
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Detention of Huawei CFO is an Attempt by US to Escalate Telecom Wars
08 Dec 2018
The recent detention of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Canada following the instigation of US authorities has multiple implications for the delicately poised US-China trade talks, as well as the future…
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Genetically Modified Babies are Here, Are We Prepared?
04 Dec 2018
With the Chinese researcher He Jiankui announcing the world’s first genetically modified babies, the scientific community is outraged with the prematurity and secrecy of his dangerous experiment.