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Important story Brazil police seize devices from a famous bird expert. He is suspected of coordinating the illegal purchase of endangered animals for Vantara, a private zoo in Gujarat, India. news.mongabay.com/2026/05/brazil…

These groups are part of a trend of unification in Myanmar against the junta. It’s good to see

Vietnamese president who planned the entire trip to eat butter chicken and Galoti kebab but served khichdi and gobhi.

It’s hard to get editors here to care about Rojava or Myanmar but it’s beautiful to see the free women in both places caring about each other. ✌️

As people obsess over the West Bengal election results, something far more dangerous is unfolding in Manipur. Three years later, the #Manipur conflict is no longer just ethnic violence. It has mutated into a complex multi-actor armed conflict involving several insurgent groups, old and new armed organisations and militias, political networks, and countless sophisticated automatic weapons. I have gone through thousands of FIRs out of over 12,000 registered till last year, along with 14 more from just the last two months. Some of the harshest sections in Indian law have been invoked ... including UAPA and the Explosives Act. And yet, not a single case has seen conviction. I repeat: NOT ONE. Even in cases where infants and soldiers were brutally killed using explosives and automatic weapons, the state cannot name the accused. FIR after FIR simply reads: “unknown armed miscreants.” That is how deep the chaos runs in Manipur. Everybody seems to know who is killing whom ... yet nobody can officially prove it. Today, Manipur is arguably the most heavily armed state in India. Members of insurgent groups from Kuki, Meitei and Naga communities have themselves admitted to me that their “boys” are now also operating on a hired basis at times .. often hired by those with political agendas .. targeting civilians and, occasionally, even security personnel, to keep Manipur burning. Sources within networks opposed to Myanmar’s military regime have also confirmed to me, with evidence, that since 2023 large consignments of weapons have been routed into Manipur to different armed groups. Former Union Home Secretary G. K. Pillai tells me: “The government does not want the truth out about who started the Manipur conflict. They created the mess and now have no idea how to solve it.” My report. google.com/amp/s/www.alja…

Peak Popular Front: A Myanmar rebel group called “Cobra Column” has released footage of their attacks on the junta, with a slowed down version of The Macarena as the music. Incredible.

here's an NPA rap explaining maoist theory if you care

Here are the shipping lanes in the Bay of Bengal. The red X is the approximate location of the Nicobar Islands. Pray tell us where is this mythical “chokepoint”?

I have just come back Myanmar 🇲🇲 where I spent two weeks traveling around the resistance-held territories of the Sagaing region. Its a remote region which no other foreign press has managed to visit since the start of the war five years ago. I'll share some impressions below 🧵

Unregulated, fossil powered, water heavy data centers are going to create new environmental risk..

Utterly chilling, such viciousness against the article! And targeting of the journalist (by doxxing images of her to highlight that she is Kashmiri, woman, Muslim, hijabi — ergo, must be crucified). All for mere reporting plain FACTS, coz HOW DARE it get covered in foreign media?

Dalit and Adivasi villagers who opposed a Vedanta project were not only arrested, but the Orissa High Court also ordered them to clean police stations. article-14.com/post/after-sta…

A single project linking the Ken & Betwa rivers will submerge 4,000+ hectares of forest & cost an estimated 2.3 million trees inside a tiger reserve. This is how India is building in a warming world, writes @iyerkavi article-14.com/post/amid-a-re…

Too much democracy: "Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel, speaking at a public event after the recent withdrawals in local body elections, reportedly said the aim should be a situation where no one even files a nomination against the ruling party".

In the last 10-12 years, we’ve normalised Modi’s grotesque state election campaigning features to an extent where now nobody even questions why the sitting PM is on a boat in Hooghly midst a global crisis, burning Manipur, LPG shortage, migrant crisis, workers’ protest etc. etc.

A few days ago in Parliament, Modi was taking credit for India’s energy security amid the West Asia crisis. Here’s the truth buried in Parliament’s own records: Every underground cavern protecting India right now; Visakhapatnam, Mangalore, Padur; was planned, approved and built under UPA-Congress in 2012. Modi’s contribution in 12 years? Capacity: 5.33 MMT → 5.33 MMT. Phase 2 (6.5 MMT), “approved” in 2021; land still unacquired in 2026. China added reserves every single year. Japan (97% importer) maintains 140 days of cover. This government maintained photo albums. India is surviving the energy crisis on Congress’s infrastructure, the Navy’s bravery, and Iran’s mercy. Nothing this regime built in 12 years stands between you and a blackout. That’s not a failure of policy. That’s a betrayal of the nation.

The Hindu’s edit on India's surrender of the Chabahar port project under pressure from the Trump administration.

So trade union activism is now a conspiracy? Workers and trade unionists speaking up is part of their fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression and to form associations or unions. Speaking up against exploitation cannot be criminalised in this fashion.