THE World Bank has just come out with estimates of poverty in India which show that “extreme poverty” which afflicted 27.1 percent of the total population in 2011, now afflicts only 2.6 percent. Its estimate is based on the National Sample Survey data on consumption expenditure collected over the period 2022-23 and 2023-24.
EUROPE is experiencing popular unrest one country after another. Images of outpouring of people in France, Italy, Greece, Albania, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Austria and in Latin America Argentina and Brazil, and finally the coming back to power of the Workers’ Party’s Lula for the fourth term despite a lot of conspiracies by Trump-supported agencies, the regime change in Serbia through popular student uprising, all manifest the...
The struggle against Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has brought to the forefront not only questions concerning people's democratic and constitutional rights, but also the disturbing experiences of intimidation, harassment and abuse faced by those who have come forward to resist it. Among the most disturbing aspects of this struggle are the experiences of young...
RETIRED judges rarely speak openly about what they witnessed in office. When they do, it is usually years later. Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, who retired from the Supreme Court in December 2023, has broken that silence. In his memoir Without Fear or Favour, written with Jay Vinayak Ojha, and in an interview with Karan Thapar for The Wire, he describes the government's interference in judicial appointments and criticises former Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud for...
AIKS calls upon all its units and the peasantry to observe November 15, Birsa Munda Day as the Flag Day of the 36th Conference of AIKS on November 15-18, 2026, at Nalgonda, Telangana. All the units across India will adorn the offices and villages with flags and festoons, organise morning processions/prabhat pheries, and take the message of the urgency of intensifying massive...
The BJP has forcibly captured 77 seats in elections to 21 urban local bodies in Tripura by creating an atmosphere of terror through intimidation, armed threats, attacks on houses and the use of muscle power. As a result, elections scheduled for November 27 will be held in only 268 of the total 345 seats. The final figures released by the State Election...
EUROPE’S streets remain aflame with a population angry about how their war economies have utterly ignored their own people. Across the Atlantic, a fierce mobilisation in Brazil and the United States produced election results that favour the good side of history, without their own potential being exaggerated. The reaction of people in the Americas and Europe at present is that the abysmal growth rates due to the low investment in their own countries...
THE delegation had an important responsibility to fulfil. It had to hand over medicines collected jointly by CPI(M) and CPI to two important centres - the Paediatric Oncology Ward of the National Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology (INOR) and the internationally renowned National Institute of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery (ICCC), both located in Havana. The delegation noted that there were other such...
CPI(M) Andhra Pradesh state secretary V Srinivasa Rao stated that despite numerous hurdles, intimidation and electoral irregularities, the party had secured two corporator seats — one each in the Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada Municipal Corporations — four municipal council seats, one ZPTC seat and 15 MPTC seats in the urban and rural local body elections.
...ON October 21, 2026, news regarding a data leak at the State Bank of India (SBI) came to light. A few days prior to this, reports emerged regarding unauthorised transactions associated with the RTGS system of the Central Bank of India between October 15 and 17. Months before that, in July 2026, a data security breach at the Bank of Baroda had also made news.
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Condemn BJP Government’s Disgraceful Position on Venezuela |
