PARLIAMENTARY committee has authorised the military leadership to hold talks with the newly energised Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, a group that has mercilessly butchered tens of thousands of Pakistani civilians and soldiers. This cowardly and shameful abdication of responsibility suggests a rubber-stamp parliament that is good for naught but seeking perks and privileges for its members.
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India: Statement of the Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan on the recent Supreme Court judgment in the case of the Gompad Massacre of 2009
20 July 2022On 14th July 2022, Supreme Court dismissed a writ petition filed by Himanshu Kumar and twelve other people in a 2009 case that sought an independent investigation in the extra-judicial killings of adivasis in the villages of (then Dantewada) now Sukma district of Chhattisgarh. This came to be known as the Gompad massacre, and it includes two major incidents of violence in September and October 2009 that happened in the villages of Gompad and Gachchanpalli along with 2-3 smaller incidents nearby, in which at least 17 adivasis were killed.
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Sri Lanka: Declaration of the State of Emergency Statements by Bar Association of Sri Lanka & Centre for Policy Alternatives - July 18, 2022
19 July 2022. . . State of Emergency has been declared by the Acting President with effect from 18th July 2022, the third time since April 1" 2022 that the country has been placed under the same.
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India: Gandhi in Champaran - Testimonies of the indigo peasants played a pivotal role in making the Mahatma | Shahid Amin (Open Magazine, April 2022)
17 July 2022IT IS DIFFICULT TO capture the voices of peasants from our colonial and pre-colonial pasts, for peasants of those times didn
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India: Full List of Unparliamentary Expressions 2021 | Lok Sabha Secretariat
15 July 2022From time to time, some words and expressions are declared unparliamentary by the Chair in different Legislative bodies in India. Such words and expressions and also those declared unparliamentary in Commonwealth Parliaments are compiled by the Lok Sabha Secretariat for ready reference in the future.
The present compilation contains references to words and expressions declared unparliamentary in Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and State Legislatures in India during the year 2021.
