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Midday Meal Workers to Hold Actions, July 3

THE Midday Meal Workers Union (CITU) organised on June 4 a state level convention of midday meal workers in Desh Bhagat Yadgar Hall of Jalandhar (Punjab). Over 800 midday meal workers from every corner of the state participated in the convention that turned to be a big success. Harpal Kaur (Barnala), Charanjeet Kaur (Boparai) and Jasmel Kaur (Sangrur) jointly chaired the convention.

SFI Holds Successful State Camp

THE Maharashtra state committee of the Students Federation of India (SFI) successfully organised a state study camp from June 5 to 8, 2014, at Aadarsh Vidyalaya in Mumbai. A total of 187 delegates from 14 districts of the state, including 43 girl students, attended the camp. The state camp commenced with the hoisting of the flag by SFI state president Mohan Jadhav. After the delegates paid homage at the martyrs column, SFI state secretary Datta Chavan made the introductory and welcome speech.

Iraq on the Boil

CHILLING reports of massacres are pouring from Iraq. Hundreds of civilians are gruesomely killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants. ISIS is an outfit created, funded and armed by the US to destabilise the region. The declared goal of the ISIS is the creation of an Islamic state in Syria (and Iraq) and the return of the Islamic caliphate, which ended after the fall of the Ottoman empire in 1924. In an offensive that took the world by surprise, the ISIS militia ran amok over vast swathes of Iraqi territory, stomping over Mosul, the second most important city of Iraq.

100% FDI in Indian Defence Industries: “Nationalists” Ditch Self-Reliance?

THE only reason there is a question mark at the end of the title is that, although a policy note is pending consideration by the cabinet, the BJP-led government has not yet announced its decision. But the drumbeats in support of a policy to further liberalise the defence manufacturing sector to FDI are growing louder, led by Indian corporates with clear vested interests, as well as some strategic experts advancing a spurious logic and some economists and miscellaneous commentators who perennially clamour for FDI in any and all spheres, as if it were the panacea for all difficulties.

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