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Bengal Sings 'Sonar Bangla' in Protest against BJP

Leading dignitaries from the educational, literary, art, and cultural spheres of the state, along with student, youth, women, teacher, and cultural mass organizations (SFI, DYFI, AIDWA, ABTA, IPTA etc.), called for a protest on November 4, 2025 against the Assam BJP government's efforts to label Rabindranath Tagore's song 'Amar Sonar Bangla' as seditious and the threats by some West Bengal BJP leaders to ban the song if they came to power.As part of this resistance, a call was given for the song 'Amar Sonar Bangla' to be sung collectively across the state simultaneously on November 4, at 2

Brinda Karat on Bihar Campaign Trail

Due to inclement weather the mass meeting to be addressed jointly by Tejashwi Yadav and Brinda Karat in Bibhutipur Constituency was cancelled. But, braving incessant rain, Brinda Karat reached Bibhutipur on October 31 and was received there by CC member and in-charge of Bibhutipur Constituency Awadhesh Kumar and the Party candidate Ajay Kumar, District Secretary Ramashray, State Committee Member Neelam Devi and others. She visited the village of Martyr Ram Nath Mahto, tallest leader and organiser of the party in Samastipur, and garlanded his statue along with the accompanying leaders.

Special Intensive Revision of Electoral Rolls: A Political Critique

FOLLOWING Bihar, the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on October 27, that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls would begin in West Bengal and 11 other states.WHAT IS SIR?SIR is a special campaign conducted by the Election Commission of India to purify the electoral rolls by eliminating errors, inconsistencies or defects. Its primary objectives include deleting the names of the deceased and permanently shifted electors, including new eligible voters, and removing multiple entries for the same individual across different booths.

Kurnool Bus Tragedy: Deadly cocktail of govt negligence and owner’s greed claims 19 lives

Nineteen passengers were burnt to death when a Hyderabad-Bengaluru sleeper coach bus, run by V Kaveri Travels, caught fire after a collision with a motorcycle on the outskirts of Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh on October 24. The accident brought to light the chronic government negligence in enforcing safety and other rules, and exposed the mad-for-maximising-profit private bus owners who blatantly flout norms and cut corners in utter disregard for safety norms.

Kochi Global City Project to generate 1.20 lakh direct jobs and 3.6 lakh indirect jobs

The LDF Government's Industrial Development Policy aims to transform Kerala into a leading industrial centre in the country. It focuses on major projects such as 200 Global Capability Centres across the state, the Vizhinjam–Kollam–Punalur Growth Triangle on 1,700 acres, the Kochi Global City Project on 358 acres, a Skill Development and Entrepreneurship University in a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model, and a Mega Food Processing Park in Kollam.

SIR aims to overthrow democratic system, must be rolled back

The special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in 12 states and Union territories, announced by the Election Commission on October 27, is intended to overthrow the country's democratic system, the CPI(M) Kerala state secretariat has said and demanded that the central government roll back the move. The commission has hastily started efforts to expand the Bihar-model SIR across the country, including Kerala.

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