AFTER the sixth phase of the parliamentary election, only eight seats remain to go to the polls in the last phase on June 1, 2024, in Bihar. The electioneering has reached a fever pitch with visits from prime minister Narendra Modi and various other BJP leaders, who are perturbed by the groundswell of support for the INDIA alliance from the very beginning. This trend has gathered momentum in the last leg of campaigning.

THE National Committee for Solidarity with Cuba, in a statement issued on May 24, 2024 has demanded the immediate removal of Cuba from the list of State sponsors of terrorism.On May 15, the US had come out with a list excluding Cuba from a list of nations that ‘do not fully cooperate in the fight against terrorism’, which is a welcome but a small step. This however does not mean elimination of Cuba from the general list of the US that designates countries as ‘State sponsors of terrorism’.

THE country is shocked today by the huge expose of the coal import fraud staged by the Adani group under the direct patronage of the Modi government. In fact, the Electricity Employees’ Federation of India (EEFI), the largest conglomerate of electricity workers and employees unions in our country, has been spearheading an intensive campaign against the coal import fraud as well as the larger anti-people and anti-national power sector reforms pushed by the Modi regime for the last one year.

Marathi Editions of Prabir Purkayastha’s Keeping up the Good Fight and Justice K Chandru’s Listen to My Case Released in Mumbai“DO we want the Constitution of India or do we want a government that will destroy it, is the real question in this election,” were the concluding words of the speech by Justice K Chandru at a function in Mumbai on May 9, 2024. Justice K Chandru was speaking as a special guest at the release of two Marathi books, Phakt Ladh Mhana and Aika Majhi Firyad, published by Janshakti Granth Prakashan.

JUSTICE S Muralidhar (retired chief justice of the Odisha High Court), delivered the 39th Sundarayya memorial lecture organised in Hyderabad on May 19. His lecture was titled: ‘Constitutional Democracy – Freedom of Expression – Today’s Indian Realities’. Covering a wide canvass, he started his lecture by paying rich tributes to Comrade P Sundarayya stating that it is very rare to find such great men in public life today.