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A newsletter from National Alliance of Anti - Nuclear Movements in India

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Our group of former civil servants of the All India and Central Services has no affiliation with any political party and is firmly committed to the Constitution of India. We write to express our disbelief and dismay at the candidature of Pragya Thakur for the Bhopal Lok Sabha seat. This decision could have been dismissed as yet another example of political expediency but for the enthusiastic endorsement by no less a person than the Prime Minister of India, who has termed her candidature as a symbol of our civilisational heritage.

https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2019/04/india-fake-news-agitprop-190416054316199.html
India: Fake News and Agitprop
We investigate the threat posed to democracy in India by those who use fake news to advance extreme nationalism.
18 Apr 2019
As around 900 million Indian voters decide who should be their next leader, an increasingly troubling question is looming over the country’s general elections: How vulnerable is it to the kind of social media manipulation that (…)

Bangladesh government and apparel factory owners in Bangladesh have carried out a brutal crackdown on garment workers