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On Tuesday in Arizona Trump had his picture taken at the phony prop he calls his “beautiful wall,” one of the props along the border with Mexico that he runs to every time he wants to stir up fear of immigrants. While he was doing that the European Union was drafting plans to establish a real wall that will bar Americans from leaving this country and heading to any one of their nations.

Countries across the globe are racing towards developing a successful vaccine for COVID-19. Various governmental research institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and even universities are working around the clock to research fast diagnostics, effective treatment, and vaccines. However, given the large scale demand, concerns have raised on profiteering of medicines and affordability of vaccines which will disproportionately affect marginalized communities. The fight against COVID-19 must make diagnostics, therapeutic, and vaccines that are affordable, accessible and available to all. United Nations Secretary-General, amongst various other world leaders, have propagated to treat COVID-19 diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines as global public goods.

On 3 July 2020, the Central Trade Unions are slated to launch their nationwide campaign to protest the deteriorating conditions of the workers, spree of privatization of public sector units, suspension of labour laws citing the pandemic and other issues. The pressure cooker situation faced by the workers at present has been building up for months now, and has especially exploded in the wake of the pandemic-induced lockdown.

Coal workers in the country, engaged in one of the most hazardous jobs, struck work for three days from June 2 to 4, 2020. It was not only against the deplorable conditions that the miners keep facing every day, the struggle launched was also against commercialisation, privatisation and the destruction of environment.

Nothing could compensate the loss of twenty young lives of the Indian Army, but the episode and China’s premeditated actions on India’s Himalayan borders willy nilly has changed for good the global geo-political narrative.

Are oil companies the true heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic? That’s sure what they’d like you to think. In a recent flurry of “corporate reputation advertising” highlighted by Emily Atkin in the newsletter HEATED, oil and gas companies, plus the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) — an industry group that counts Chevron, Exxon, Citgo, and many others among its members — put out a series of Twitter ads arguing that, since oil and gas companies supply petroleum to manufacturers of face masks, hand sanitizer, and protective suits, they are helping keep the population safe and healthy.

A fourteen-year-old student, Zareb Vardhan, has been able to create a one-of-its-kind face-shield at home using a 3D printer, and has gifted 100 such shields to policemen. Zareb has created the face-shield after noticing people closely interacting with cops in the middle of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

It is necessary to remind ourselves in contemporary India that, politics makes the law as and when required and even remakes and replaces laws and therefore there is a limit to the judicial system under which you seek justice. The case of Akhil Gogoi reaffirms a belief that while law regulates, politics governs!

LUCKNOW: The Congress under the leadership and guidance of Priyanka Gandhi Vadhra appears to be taking the Yogi government head-on. She’s questioning the Uttar Pradesh government on various issues and it seems she is not even afraid of going to jail.

Three decade old tryst of the RJD with the highly caste sensitive Bihar politics suffered the first ever worst jolt with the founder of the party, former union minister and vice president, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh quitting the party along with five MLCs.