Author: Editor's Desk, Tattva News

The 10th edition of the authoritative Global Rights Index shows that the global cost-of-ling crisis has been met with a crackdown on the rights of working people in every region of the worl. From Eswatini to Myanmar, Peru to France, Iran to Korea, workers’ demands to have their labour rights upheld have been ignored and their dissent has been met with increasingly brutal responses from state forces. The 10 worst countries for working people in 2023 are: Bangladesh, Belarus, Ecuador, Egypt, Eswatini, Guatemala, Myanmar, Tunisia, the Philippines and Turkey. The 2023 Index shows that key measures of violations of workers’…

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a meeting of the Union council of ministers on July 3, officials said on Thursday. This comes a day after Modi held hectic deliberations with top BJP leaders, triggering speculation about a possible reshuffle of his council of ministers. The July 3 meeting is likely to be held at the newly built convention centre at Pragati Maidan in the national capital, which will host the G20 summit in September. On Wednesday, Modi held marathon meetings with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J.P. Nadda, among others. Nadda’s participation in the meeting led…

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Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi, who triggered a huge political stir in the state after dismissing state minister V Senthil Balaji on corruption charges, decided to keep the dismissal order in abeyance for the time being, sources said on Thursday. The Raj Bhavan informed Chief Minister MK Stalin about it, they added. In a late evening communication to the chief minister, the Governor said he would consult the Attorney General and seek his legal opinion about the move. The halt of Governor’s decision is likely to cool off an imminent political war between the state government and the Governor on…

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Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar, on Thursday, said the next meeting of opposition leaders will take place in Bengaluru on July 13 and 14. Pawar claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become restless after the meeting of leaders from opposition parties in Patna.The first meeting of opposition parties was hosted by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Patna. After the meeting, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had announced that the next meeting of opposition leaders would be held in Shimla in Himachal Pradesh in July. While Kumar had termed the meeting “positive”, it also showed fissures in the opposition…

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By Nava J Thakuria Press Club of Assam (PCA) demands a modern multi-media centre in Guwahati for the benefit of working journalists across northeast India and urged State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to take personal interest in realising the project nearby the International Convention Center or Guwahati Club Rotary (opposite to Kamrup Academy School). PCA, in a media statement, reveals that the eco-friendly centre will facilitate a meeting place for scribes, initiate programs for their capacity building and arrange programs for the welfare of media families. “Regular programs like press meets/briefings, interactive sessions with distinguished personalities, screenings of national…

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Chandrayaan-3 is ready for launch and it will take place in July, informed the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S Somnath on Wednesday. He says, “Currently the Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft is fully integrated. We have completed the testing…Currently, the window of opportunity for launch is between 12-19th July…We will announce the exact date after all the tests are completed…” ISRO chief S Somnath said, “We are looking at Artemis Accord as a political engagement with the US. It is a statement of Intent that when the US is proposing collaborative work in the space sector, especially exploration of outer planets in…

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According to a Deloitte India Report, as India is moving towards becoming the third-largest consumer market, the country’s online retail market size is expected to reach US$ 325 billion by 2030, up from US$ 70 billion in 2022, largely due to the rapid expansion of e-commerce in tier-2 and tier-3 cities. As per the report titled ‘Future of Retail,’ online retail penetration is expected to increase at a remarkable rate over the next ten years, outpacing offline retail by 2.5 times. India has grown to be the third-largest consumer market in the world, according to Deloitte India. Tier-2 and 3…

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Political paralysis and spiking crime pose grave threats to press freedom in Ecuador, finds a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). CPJ’s report, “Ecuador on edge,” found the country’s journalists face the prospect of acute violence amid a security crisis with no precedent in recent history. In 2022, Ecuadorian press freedom group Fundamedios documented 356 attacks on the press, the highest number since 2018. In the first four months of 2023, the organization reported a total of 96 attacks. In recent months in Ecuador, two journalists were forced to flee due to death threats, explosive devices…

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Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said total length of the National Highways in the country increased by about 59% in the last nine years. As a result of this expansion, India now has the second largest road network, after the US. Addressing a Press Conference in New Delhi Gadkari said: “Total length of National Highways was 91,287 km in 2013-14, which increased to 1,45,240 km in 2022-23, which is a rise of more than 59% during this period.” He also said that, in the last nine years, the increase in 4 lane NH rose about two times.…

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Amid demands to repeal the law on sedition, Law Commission chairman Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi said that due to the present situation from Kashmir to Kerala and Punjab to North East, it has become very important to retain the law to safeguard the “unity and integrity of India”. The law is on hold for the time being following the directives of the Supreme Court issued in May last year. Defending the panel’s recommendation to retain the law, Justice Awasthi said sufficient safeguards have been proposed to prevent its abuse. He said that special laws such as the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act…

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