New Delhi, 1 February 2018
Budget 2018, like the previous budgets of Arun Jaitley is high on big announcements without concrete allocation or measures of implementation. The budget does not address
26 January 2018 marks the fourth Republic Day since Modi occupied the PM office in 2014. Every Republic Day during this Modi era has made us keenly aware of the
(Four Supreme Court judges have alerted the country to ‘democracy in danger.’ The people of the country can ignore this warning only at our own peril. The Prime Minister, speaking
-- Dushyant Dave
(Courtesy: Bar and Bench. The author is a Senior Advocate and Former President of the Supreme Court Bar Association)
The sad demise of Judge Loya is the biggest mystery
-- Dipankar Bhattacharya
Media reports coming from the CPI(M) Central Committee meeting held in Kolkata (19-21 January, 2018) indicate that the party is majorly divided on the issue of its current
The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill criminalising instant triple talaq is flawed, contradictory, and has been passed by the Lok Sabha without any consultation with the very
-- Shivani Nag
While AAP’s fascination with CCTV cameras is not new, this fascination appears to have taken a giant leap of faith with CCTV cameras now being projected as a
(Statement by Activists, Academics and Concerned Citizens issued on the eve of Israeli PM’s India Visit)
In the coming week, Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will tour different cities of India
-- Agnitra
Last October, Santoshi Kumari, a young girl from Simdega district of Jharkhand died of starvation after her family stopped receiving any rice from the public distribution system for several
On January 1 every year, Dalits and Bahujans gather at Bhima Koregaon near Pune to commemorate the anniversary of the Bhima Koregaon Battle of 1818 in which the British Bombay
Has justice been frozen in an upside-down position? Why is justice a one-eyed blind woman? These are questions the late Eduardo Galeano asked. And these apply very well to the
-- Sandipan Talukdar
Assam witnessed for the first time in its history a big public assembly organized by RSS in Guwahati. The event was named “Luitporiya Hindu Xomabesh” - meaning “Hindu
-- Shweta and Abhishek
On January 20, a fire in a firecracker factory in Bawana Industrial Area, Delhi, killed at least 17 workers, 10 of whom were women. The factory was
In Memory of Comrade Mahendra Singh
The 14th martyrdom anniversary of Comrade Mahendra Singh – the CPI(ML) MLA in the Jharkhand Assembly much loved by the people, who was shot dead
On 17 January 2018 – the first anniversary of the killing of two young men Mafizul and Alamgir in firing by the nexus of West Bengal police and TMC thugs
A sit-in was organized on 20th January, 2018 at Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh to demand the arrest of the killers of Comrade Dinesh Rajbhar, a district committee member of the
CPI(ML) Nalanda District unit, Insaf Manch, RYA and Bihar State Vidyalaya Rasoiya Sangh held a dharna in front of the Nalanda Collectorate on 6 January 2018 to demand the unconditional
On 17 January 2018, sixty lakh scheme workers went on an all India strike, that central trade unions had called from the Workers’ Mahapadav in Delhi in November. Nearly 90%
On 20th January 2018, Satyapal Singh, Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development, and former Commissioner of Police in Mumbai, declared that “Darwin’s theory of evolution is wrong.
Modi came to power promising ‘Acche Din’ - Good Times. But the four years of his rule has spelt ‘Good Times’ only for India’s richest 1%, whose share in wealth