DISPLAYING insensitivity toward crisis-ridden working people already struggling for livelihood, the Tripura government has further compounded their hardships by installing smart meters for electricity ...

THE 17th death anniversary of Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjeet, internationally renowned CPI (M) leader, former general secretary of the CPI (M), founder of the Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna Trust, and ...

What is new is using citizenship as an instrument in disciplining the working class. Power is not always explicit in matured capitalist democracies because brutal use of power and exclusion can hardly ...

THOSE who are committed to believe in, and steadfastly practice India’s constitutional morality, are certainly ‘dismayed and disappointed’ over the Special NIA Court’s verdict acquitting all seven ...

BRINDA Karat, senior CPI (M) leader and former Rajya Sabha MP, has written to Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, on August 6, demanding immediate intervention ...

When independent India had refused to join any of the military alliances like SEATO and CENTO that US imperialism had formed around the world to encircle the Soviet Union, but had instead chosen to ...

The EC had shifted the goalpost midway when it waived the requirement of any of the11 documents before closing of the ...

IN the last one and half decades, West Bengal has borne witness to a chilling surge in gendered violence. From the shadowed alleys of Park Street to the sterile corridors of R G Kar Medical College ...

AS the 79th Independence Day approaches, India stands at crossroads. On one side are powerful forces that are bent upon subverting the Constitution which enshrines the legacy of freedom struggle.

At the same time, there were a few analyses, including by this writer in these columns and elsewhere, who questioned the AAIB report and inconsistencies in its analysis, as well as its preliminary ...