John Brittas MP has written to the Chief Election Commissioner challenging the legality of the Election Commission's introduction of a mandatory declaration in the online Form 6 through the ECINET portal. He has pointed out that the Election Commission has effectively altered the statutory Form 6 without any amendment to the Registration of Electors Rules, 1960 or any corresponding...
INDIA has had for some time one of the largest public distribution systems in the world for foodgrains. Its core is the Antyodyay Anna Yojana (AAY) which covers around 75 percent of the rural population and 50 percent of the urban population, and provides 35 kilogrammes of foodgrains per month to each beneficiary household at subsidised prices. In addition, since January 1, 2023, an additional 5 kilogrammes of free foodgrains per person per...
ON 9 July 2026, researchers from US universities published a paper in the top-rated journal Science describing a powerful new AI tool for biomedical research. A year earlier, they had made the initial manuscript available as open access to all by publishing it on bioRxiv, an online repository, and making the software available on GitHub, an online platform for researchers to share code.
DISENFRANCHISING citizens is a mode of control by which the state categorises and hierarchises individuals in the scale of distribution of rights and justice. It has two specific dimensions; one is control by the economy of security and fear and the other is not only excluding the surplus from the realm of production but also invisiblising them from the sphere of entitlements and rights. Defining and redefining citizens...
IN the recently held assembly elections, the Left Democratic Front’s defeat in Kerala, the BJP coming to power in West Bengal with an absolute majority, and the BJP alliance winning again in Assam and Puducherry reveal a dangerous trend. It is essential to understand the factors behind these outcomes and confront this danger.
THE brutal rape and murder of an 11-year-old schoolgirl in Baruipur, South 24 Parganas, in the first week of July, has exposed a harrowing breakdown of law and order and the deeply entrenched criminalisation of politics in West Bengal. On a Saturday afternoon, the Class VI student stepped out to buy a birthday gift for her friend. She never returned.
A non-RSS face of BJP ruling Bihar is proving himself more loyal to the RSS mandated politics to run Bihar than the true blue Shakha trained RSS pracharak can be. Just after being declared as the Chief Minister of Bihar, Mr Samrat Chowdhary started copying the bulldozer style of governance of Yogi ji next door. The daily demolitions of slum dwellings across Bihar in the name of anti-encroachment drive is nothing but war declared against the poor, homeless, marginalised people...
WHEN US president Donald Trump announced that the ceasefire with Iran was over and ordered a new round of attacks, he attempted to present the resumption of violence as the inevitable consequence of Iranian misconduct. The reality was more complicated. The ceasefire had not been a peace agreement between two reconciled powers, but an armed truce between...
THREE bills moved together through Parliament in August 2025, and taken separately, each look almost technical. The Constitution (One Hundred and Thirtieth Amendment) Bill, 2025 deals with what happens to a chief minister or prime minister who is arrested. The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2025 and the Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill, 2025 extend a similar logic to other Union Territories. But critics across the...
The scoreline read: Argentina 3 – Egypt 2. But who won? For seventy-eight glorious minutes, Egypt had done the unthinkable. They led by two goals to zero against the reigning world champions, and it seemed as if it was going to be curtains for the greatest footballer of our time, Lionel Messi. But the score, even in those seventy-eight minutes, should have been 3–0. Egypt’s second goal was disallowed for an alleged foul at the other end of the ground, half a minute previously....
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Condemn BJP Government’s Disgraceful Position on Venezuela |
