The familiar playbook is back on display. The charges of possible financial contributions for political funding of BJP in lieu of largesse from the government is right back on the table. On February 29, 2024, the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi cleared three semiconductor units as part of the government’s push to build a domestic semiconductor industry. Two units were slated to be led by the Tata Group. This was in the immediate run up to the Lok...
Of late, RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat has been toiling away trying to burnish the image of his organisation on its foundation centenary. He has been giving long lectures to audiences of ‘learned’ or ‘eminent’ people – mostly RSS sympathisers – explaining the ideology of the RSS. The objective is to portray the RSS as a nationalist organization, committed to spreading harmony and universal brotherhood, drawing upon the wellspring of Hindutva or Sanatan Dharma. In the process...
WINTER is here, bringing with it a heavy pall of pollutant laden smog over Delhi, and on most of northern India along the Indo-Gangetic plains. During October-February, and especially during the peak pollution months of November-December, governments at the Centre and in Delhi, as well as the media and even the Supreme Court, are suddenly abuzz with policy statements, articles and commentary about air pollution and what needs to be done.
THE second quarter (Q2-July-September) estimates of GDP released by the government on November 28 estimate real GDP growth of 8.2 per cent and nominal growth of 8.7 per cent with an implicit inflation rate of 0.5 per cent. This estimated growth is higher than 5.6 per cent for Q2 of 2024-25 but lower than the Q2 figure of 2022-23, 9.3 per cent.
The country witnessed well-attended protests by the workers and peasants on November 26, 2025, the fifth anniversary of the historic united struggle - the general strike, grameen hartal and Delhi Chalo called by Samyukta Kisan Morcha as well as the Central Trade Unions. In 2020-21 the concerted attack on the productive classes - the workers and peasants - in the form of the pro-corporate labour codes and the...
SOME words become heavy with meaning. For the people of Jammu and Kashmir, the word "terrorism" is one of them. When used carelessly, it stops being just a word for a violent act and becomes a label for an entire community. It becomes a lens that distorts how people see them, making their hopes seem suspicious and their pain seem less important.
THE Washington Post published an investigative report on October 29, 2025, claiming that the Indian government had unofficially directed LIC to invest $3.9 billion in the embattled Adani Group. It is important to lay out the facts for the public to realise the challenges that LIC may have to face in future. Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), the biggest public sector undertaking in India, holds 65 per cent of market share even today, despite...
The imperialist US under President Donald Trump has started a full-fledged campaign of tariff terrorism against not only India but also several other countries. Trump has imposed the highest 50% additional tariffs on Indian exports to the US. Brazil is the only other country to have been slapped with such high tariffs. At the same time, Trump wants India to sign an agreement for free trade with almost nil tariffs on US exports to India....
CPI(M) activist and peoples’ artist Com. K. Penchalaiah was brutally murdered by anti-social elements in the business of peddling ganja and other drugs. The dastardly attack took place in Nellore town of Andhra Pradesh on November 28. Com. Penchalaiah was the DYFI area secretary previously and currently the secretary of the Praja Natya Mandali (people’s theatre organisation).
CPI (M) West Bengal State Committee has announced the immediate launch of an ongoing campaign against the Election Commission (EC). The party contends that the EC is using the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process as a mere pretext for the intentional deletion of the names of legitimate voters in the state. State Secretary Mohammed Salim announced that a major protest rally, involving all...
M Y Tarigami urges intervention against harassment of students and workersCPI(M) leader M Y Tarigami has expressed deep concern over the environment of harassment allegedly being faced by students and labourers working in different parts of the country following the Delhi blast. |
On Bihar Election ResultsCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on November 14, 2025The victory of the NDA in the Bihar legislative assembly elections is a setback for the Mahagathbandhan. The ruling coalition utilised the entire state machinery, resorted to various manipulations, and deployed huge amounts of money. It benefited from the polarising communal and casteist rhetoric of its leaders, including... |
Coercive Federalism and Conditional WelfareInstitutions of basic welfare cannot become instruments for political conformity.EYEING withheld funds from the union government to the tune of Rs. 1,158 crore, the Kerala government decided to sign the Pradhan Mantri Schools for Rising India (PM SHRI) scheme earlier last month, in what was a surprise U-turn of the left’s consistent opposition to the scheme... |
