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Pakistan India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD), from India and Pakistan welcomes the agreement between the DGMOs (Director General of Military Operations) of India and Pakistan to observe ceasefire on the Line of Control and International border from the midnight of 24 February 2021.

The farmers’ agitation for the repeal of the pro-corporate farm laws has become the largest and longest sustained non-violent movement in Indian history, surpassing Mahatma Gandhi’s historic Dandi March against the abhorrent Salt Law of the British colonial regime.

India: Minister of IT Ravi Shankar Prasad unveiled new policies for social media and over-the-top (OTT) platforms. The key takeaways from the policy are:
– Offensive posts to be removed in 24 hours and the platforms have to appoint a Chief Complaint Officer.
– The platforms will also have to provide information about the person who first posted the content.
– The new guidelines will be implemented within three months.

ANJALI BHARDWAJ — who has just been picked by the Joe Biden administration as one of only 12 people in the world for an International Anti-Corruption & Accountability Champion award — discusses democracy​, liberty, freedom, and how power should be held to account in a interview by Shoma Chaudhury (Feb 26, 2021)

The winner of the world’s biggest prize in men’s team tennis receives a colossal piece of hardware: a silver salad bowl atop three tiers of wooden plinths, weighing more than a hundred kilogrammes. In 1974, a talented group of Indian tennis players, all in their twenties, came within touching distance of this trophy