Vishwakarma Yojana: To Perpetuate Retroactive Caste System!

ON Independence Day, August 15, Prime Minister Modi announced from the Red Fort that the government would allocate a package of loans amounting to Rs 13,000 to 15,000 crores, over the next five years, with a five per cent interest rate for the implementation of a new scheme, the Vishwakarma Yojana.

Com Sankaraiah Continues to Inspire And Guide Activists across Generations

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×Paying homage to Comrade N Sankaraiah, People’s Democracy reproduces an article on N Sankaraiah written by G Ramakrishnan, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member, on the occasion of his birth centenary. This article was published by People’s Democracy in the issue dated July 18, 2021.BORN on July 15, 1922, Comrade N Sankaraiah, widely known as NS, enters the hundredth year of his life on July 15, 2021.

Seventy-Hour Working Week: A Reflection of Capital's Essence

RECENTLY, the IT billionaire R N Narayana Murthy, co-founder of Infosys, suggested a 70-hour working week and urged Indian youth to embrace a shift in India's work culture to expedite development. This isn't the first time that this prominent figure, now in his seventies, has advocated extending working hours beyond the globally accepted labour standards. In 2020, he had previously proposed a 60-hour working week.

An Unprecedented Human Tragedy is Playing Out in Palestine

AS we are witnessing a tragedy of gigantic proportions unfolding before the world, the news of dozens of people have been killed in an Israeli air raid on the Jabalia refugee camp in Northern Gaza. “More than 50 people have been killed”, the director of the Indonesian hospital informed the media. He further stated, that the hospital was yet to provide the number of causalities as the victims were still being counted.When material for this piece was being collected, the data was posing a horrific story. People killed: 8,525 of which children were 3,595 and women 2,187.

IMCWP Declares Solid Solidarity with Palestine

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE 23rd International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties (IMCWP) adopted a strongly worded resolution condemning the brutal genocidal bombing and barbarous attacks by Zionist Israel on Palestinian people in Gaza.The meeting demanded immediate efforts for ending the military aggression and blockade by Israel.

Lithium is in Plate for Whom?

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE Modi government had made a dangerous decision to amend the Mines and Mineral (Development and Regulation) Act in favour of its corporate partners. The revised Act removed lithium and five other minerals from the list of restricted atomic minerals, thereby permitting private entities to engage in mining and exploration.

Pasmanda Muslims’ Demand for Justice

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE Pasmanda Muslim Mohaz (Backward and Dalit Muslims Front) was established by Ali Anwar, himself a member of a most oppressed community of Muslims, in September, 1998 and has now completed 25 years of study, activism and consistent advocacy of a cause that has not received much attention from scholars and social scientists. At the time of its formation, Ali Anwar had published his book ‘Masavat ki Jung’ (Strug

2023 Had Warmest September on Record Globally; Set to be Warmest Year

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×C3S bulletin revealed September 2023 was 1.75 degrees Celsius warmer than estimated value for September; Report also says September’s temperature record showed global temperature anomalies more positive than any month in any year in ERA5 datasetAUTUMN this year appeared not to be so pleasant. On the contrary, the world witnessed the hottest September on record globally, that too by a record-breaking margin.

Between History and Histrionics, the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam

The fact that there is a glaring contrast between promise and reality remains persistent in the very vocabulary in which this historic legislation is couched.FOLLOWING the success of Chandrayaan-3 – a feat achieved by a joint effort of the country’s lead scientists, including a significant number of women, which opened up to millions of Indians hopes of a walk on the moon – the Modi government now promises the same to women of the country in the shape of the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam.Except that there is a big difference.

Economic Policies: RSS, BJP and Push for Privatisation

The BJP’s now nine year rule at the centre starting from 2014 has given us what its economic philosophy and its practice is: the destruction of the planned development of the country, its statistical system, accompanied by the enormous growth of inequalities within the country. While the country’s economic growth has continued, though not at the pace it claims and certainly lower than the earlier years, it has largely benefited the rich.

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