The BJP’s National Council meeting was held last week, sending clear signals about the agenda and ambitions of the BJP and the Modi Government.
The new BJP President Amit Shah outlined
(With inputs from a news story titled 'Activists demand justice for woman who killed self' by Anumeha Yadav in The Hindu, May 15, 2014, and Comrade Abhishek of AISA, JNU)
The outcome of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections shows an overwhelming countrywide rejection of the Congress and UPA and a decisive majority for the BJP and the NDA. The BJP
In the 16th Lok Sabha elections, the CPI(ML) had fielded 83 candidates across 15 states and 3 Union Territories. With one nomination cancelled in Uttar Pradesh, 82 had remained in
JK Dhaundiyal, a progressive intellectual and close sympathiser of CPI(ML), passed away in a hospital in the national capital region, early in the morning on June 22. He was 66.
Hailing
On the night of March 23, 4 dalit teenage girls aged 13-18 were abducted from their village of Bhagana in Haryana's Hisar district, drugged and raped. They had gone to
Why is the Delhi police using Section 144 to arrest protesters or prevent protests in public spaces? JNU students planned to protest at Gujarat Bhawan to demand justice for the
In an ironic coincidence on 16 May 2014, alongside the electoral verdict, the Supreme Court too delivered its verdict on Akshardham Temple Terror Attack case (of Gujarat, September 2002), acquitting
As Narendra Modi takes over as Prime Minister, and a BJP Government takes the reins of power, what are the signals his Government is sending out?
Even as Modi calls himself
Unite to Demand Hostels and Workers' Rights
In the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), a Dera Dalo campaign was launched by the AISA-led JNU Students' Union on 26 May 2014. Since then,
There is shortage of teachers in Uttarakhand and officially they can't be attached to any other department or place of their convenience. Recently two Shiksha Mitra in Pithoragarh district have
On 25 May a dharna was organized at Bhilai Power House Ambedkar Chowk, demanding re-investigation of the Shankar Guha Niyogi murder case, naming of Bhilai Power House railway station after
A demonstration was held outside the Bhilai Municipal Corporation office on 26 May to demand solution of the problems faced by contractual sanitation workers in the Bhilai Municipal Corporation, after
Home Secretary in Bihar has recently stated in public that the village road in Farbishganj which was grabbed by BJP backed industrialist leading to repression of resisting people and killing
CPIML held a protest against an incident of gang rape and murder of a teen age girl by criminals on 20 May at the block office. The incident had occured
Immediately after the Lok Sabha polls there have been attempts in Siwan to create communal tension at many places. Efforts are on to give communal colours to even small or
