AS the third initiative in a row AIKS and P Sundarayya Memorial Trust organised the all-India workshop of apple farmers in Srinagar on June 22-23, 2022. Apple farmers from Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh participated in it along with experts from Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture – CITH, Srinagar, Sher-e Kashmir University of Agriculture Science and Technology, Kashmir (SKUAST-K), Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and All India Peoples Science Network.Hannan Mollah, general secretary of AIKS, inaugurated the workshop.

THE Nitish-led NDA government has taken one of the most inhuman decisions to deploy bulldozers to demolish the houses in the villages, inhabited by the poor, homeless and landless people. In recent years they have been doing it without much protest in urban areas and now they are moving towards the semi-urban and rural areas as the land prices have reached sky-high.

SINCE the announcement of the Agnipath scheme for the recruitment of ‘Agniveers’ in the Indian Army for a four-year term, many of the army aspirants are on warpath. They feel betrayed and their hopes lie shattered. Bihar Youth from rich backgrounds generally opt for UPSC and the state public service commission, BPSC. But a large number of rural youth who cannot bear the expenses of higher education opt for police, paramilitary, and military services.

THE Kerala state conference of the CPI(M) held in Ernakulam in March this year created a landmark by adopting a document outlining the development perspective for a new Kerala.

CENTRAL Chennai district committee of the CPI(M) scored a decisive and path-breaking victory in clinching the rights of the poorest of the working-class people living in the heart of Chennai city after a two-year-long struggle. The historic struggle of the people has resulted in the overturning of several anti-people government orders notified by the previous AIADMK government.