HEAT waves were forecasted a few days earlier in Chennai and other parts of the state of Tamil Nadu, and the summer heat has already begun. The election-related heat and intense campaigning culminated with the state going to polls in the first phase on April 19.

CONGRESS leader Rahul Gandhi's provocative and unsubstantiated comments about Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan have drawn widespread criticism from across the political spectrum in Kerala. During several public events, Rahul Gandhi, who has faced multiple interrogations by the Enforcement Directorate, expressed his surprise at the agency's inaction regarding Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.Referring to the arrests of Hemant Soren and Arvind Kejriwal, the sitting MP of Wayanad said that two chief ministers had already been imprisoned for opposing the BJP-led central government.

ON April 14, 2024, on the 133rd birth anniversary of Dr B R Ambedkar, the new CPI(M) office at Ulhasnagar in the Thane district of Maharashtra was inaugurated by CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and AIKS president Ashok Dhawale.A public meeting held on the occasion. Several Party members and sympathisers attended the inaugural programme.

POWER looms, the heartbeat of Telangana’s Siricilla, have stopped working due to the decisions of the central government and the previous BRS-led Telangana government, leaving more than 30,000 weavers’ families high and dry. But the weavers, after putting up united struggles for 48 days, emerged victorious, and the power looms have started to beat rhythmically. The working class has proved that Siricilla is not a ‘place of suicides’ but a ‘place of struggles’.  Even though the grief of losing two people to the struggle is never-ending, the victory at the end of the struggle has increased th

ON April 15, 2024, a massive and enthusiastic public meeting of the INDIA bloc was held at Khagaria in Bihar after the CPI(M)-INDIA candidate Sanjay Kumar submitted his election nomination form earlier in the day. Red flags of the Left, green flags of the RJD, tricoloured flags of the Congress, adorned the venue in large numbers.