THE 8th State Conference of the All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA), Uttarakhand, was held in the auditorium of Jain Dharamshala in Comrade Chandrakala Pandey Nagar, Dehradun, chaired by a three-member presidium, Sunita Pandey, Indu Naudiyal, and Mala Gurung. The keynote speaker AIDWA National President P K Shrimati said that whether we are from the hills or the plains or from the south, we are all one. She said that Janwadi Mahila Samiti (AIDWA) was formed in 1981 and since then we have been continuously fighting.

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met in New Delhi on November 13 and 14, 2025. It has issued the following communique on November 16.Bihar Elections: A record 67 percent of voters participated in the Bihar Assembly elections – an increase of 9.6 per cent compared to the previous election. Notably, 71.6 per cent of women voted, marking a significant rise in female political participation.

15th November was the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda. He was an iconic fighter of the tribals of Chotanagpur for the rights of the tribal people for water, forest and land. This fight in the early parts of the nineteenth century developed as an integral part of our peoples’ struggle against colonial British rule and earned Birsa that iconic status. However, Birsa’s contribution went far beyond. His intellectual and philosophical imagination introduced a larger world view from the tribal traditional life and livelihood standpoint. This analysis throws light on these aspects.

EMPLOYMENT across the world is undergoing changes. The changes are multi-dimensional, driven by shifting nature of labour contract by skill grades, impacted by uncertainty and shocks in supply chains. However, the tendencies are neither uniform across countries nor do they show uniformity in direction of change. In some advanced countries, as reported by the ILO in a recent report, unemployment rate has fallen although market sentiments are sluggish.