DONALD Trump has now got legislative clearance from both houses in the US to charge up to 100 percent tariffs on imports from countries that have been doing business with Russia in violation of the unilateral sanctions imposed upon it by the North in the wake of the Ukraine war. India and China which are substantial buyers of Russian oil are likely to be the main targets of these Trump tariffs.
IT is alarming that despite the fact that 81.3 crore Indians receive food assistance and many are benefitted by different transfer schemes of either kind or cash offered by the state and central governments, household debt primarily to finance consumption expenditure is on the rise. The stress on household consumption expenditure is rising because of a decade long near stagnation of real wages and low real incomes...
Mass organisations such as the SFI, DYFI, Democratic Teachers Front (DTF), AIDWA and the CITU have called for structural changes to prevent recurrence of an incident like the collapse of a student accommodation in Delhi on September 6 that killed seven people and injured a dozen others. In a statement, the organisations said the deaths of students caused by the collapse of the five-storey building...
THE explosive revelations in the Indian Express (September 23) surrounding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls raise serious questions not just about the process, but more importantly about the integrity of the Election Commission of India (ECI) itself. The disclosures have only strengthened suspicions and concerns that the CPI(M), other opposition parties and civil society organisations have all along...
THE two-day meeting of the CPI(M) Odisha State Committee, held on September 19–20, undertook a comprehensive review of the political and organisational situation in the state and chalked out a programme of struggles on the major issues confronting the people. Politburo member Srideep Bhattacharya and Central Secretariat member Dr K. Hemalata participated in the discussions. State Secretary Suresh Chandra Panigrahy presented the political...
As rainfall deficit deepened agrarian distress, CPI(M) Andhra Pradesh state secretary V Srinivasa Rao demanded that the central government announce a special package of ₹1 lakh crore to tackle the severe drought prevailing across the state. Addressing the media in Vijayawada on September 13, along with party state secretariat members, Srinivasa Rao said that 655 of the...
DONALD Trump’s campaign to bring Greenland under United States control has often been dismissed as bluster. That is a mistake. Behind the language of a property deal lies a serious attempt to revive an old imperial principle: that Washington may decide the political and economic future of the entire Western Hemisphere. Greenland, strategically placed between North America and Europe, has...
AIDWA feels that every word of condemnation of the heinous crime committed in Jamui, Bihar, would still fall short of expressing the gravity of the offence. A video showing a teenage girl being molested, groped and sexually assaulted by a group of men in Jamui district has caused widespread public outrage and condemnation. The incident has brought shame upon Bihar, India and, indeed, all of humanity. The brazen...
The Left Front campaign for the forthcoming Tripura Tribal Area Autonomous District (TTAAD) Village Committee elections is gathering momentum, with meetings, marches, courtyard meetings and door-to-door campaigns drawing an enthusiastic response from people. In several villages, voters are openly speaking about their hardships and expressing growing dissatisfaction with the BJP-led...
A FEW days ago, Subhash Chandra, a former Member of Parliament of the ruling party and the owner of Zee Group, which helped bring them to power, was hard to miss in the media. That was when the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), passed by the Indian Parliament in 2016 for the benefit of corporate giants, and the associated 'haircuts' came to light, at least to some extent. Some people were shocked to hear that 99.97 per cent of the dues simply vanished into thin air....
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Condemn BJP Government’s Disgraceful Position on Venezuela |
