A section of Auroville residents had protested the MoU signing 100 acres of Auroville to IIT-Madras saying it would displace Annapurna Farm, the community’s central granary.
Auroville Governing Board signed MoU with IIT Madras 8 July to establish a campus focussed on sustainability & aimed at achieving global excellence in sustainable technologies.
Established as a lab of universal collaboration, Auroville finds itself caught in a clash between residents & authorities — and even among different residents — over its evolution.
There have been internal and external tensions at Auroville. But resolving these can't be done through violent actions and top-down imposition by the State.
India has been generously hosting an international experiment, but it cannot be a bystander to foreign residents’ rebellion against Indian authorities.
Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.
Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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