[GreenYouth] Team Sasikala Takes Charge Of Tamil Nadu With 31 Ministers: 10 Points

2017-02-16 Thread Sukla Sen
http://www.ndtv.com/tamil-nadu-news/advantage-team-sasikala-governor-calls-them-for-meeting-10-points-1660024 Team Sasikala Takes Charge Of Tamil Nadu With 31 Ministers: 10 Points Tamil Nadu | Reported by J Sam Daniel Stalin, Edited by Shuchi Shukla | Updated: February 16, 2017 16:42 IST CHENNAI:

[GreenYouth] Meeting Israel's Netanyahu, Trump backs away from commitment to Palestinian state

2017-02-16 Thread Sukla Sen
[Foreshadowing Trump’s policy shift, a senior White House official said on Tuesday that peace did not necessarily have to entail Palestinian statehood. Palestinians responded by warning Trump that such a move would seriously damage U.S. credibility.] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-isr

[GreenYouth] Trump finds a (rather rare) international Backer (other than Putin): 'Assad says Trump travel ban targets terrorists, not Syria's people'

2017-02-16 Thread Sukla Sen
[Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said President Donald Trump's ban on Syrians entering the United States targeted terrorists, not the Syrian people, appearing to defend the logic of the measure in an interview broadcast on Thursday.] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-assad-usa-idU

[GreenYouth] Smoking is injurious to health!

2017-02-16 Thread KP Sasi
Smoking is injurious to health. It can create cancer. Smokers are anti-socials. And in case you want to get cancer, there are much better ways. There are much better cancer creating substances called carcinogenic agents available more widely than tobacco. Eat vegetables, grains, coffee or tea. They

[GreenYouth] UP Poll Campaign: Amit Shah, BJP national president, openly talking about and appealing to "Jat biradari"

2017-02-16 Thread Sukla Sen
Amit Shah, BJP national president, openly talking about and appealing to "Jat biradari". His apprehension (at min. 3.10-3.15) that he'd get recorded comes true! Makes mockery of the model code (and Supreme Court judgement). Now it is EC's turn to act. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHGPec4TdEc&fe

[GreenYouth] [Trade] Unions [in Maharashtra] to protest against new contract labour Act on Friday

2017-02-16 Thread Sukla Sen
[Earlier, the law applied to units with 20 or more workmen. After the amendment in Maharashtra, it will apply to units with 50 or more employees. As a result, smaller units or contracts covering between 20 and 49 workers will no longer come under its purview. ... "As a result of the amendment, a la

[GreenYouth] 'Modi combines Savarkar and neoliberalism': Pankaj Mishra on why this is the age of anger

2017-02-16 Thread Sukla Sen
["I think there are many different contradictory tendencies that have come together to produce events or personalities like Donald Trump and Modi. I think if we were to follow this old analytic method of either/or we would miss many of these contradictory aspects of modern politics and economics. I