THOUSANDS of people marched through streets in Kolkata, protesting against ongoing post-poll violence in West Bengal. Left parties and other supporting parties participated in the massive rally.West Bengal is witness to unending violence perpetrated by the TMC and the BJP in different parts of the state. More than 10 people have already died in clashes. Apart from loss of life, attack on houses, shops, arson, terror in villages have increased. In parts of the state, particularly in Barrackpore industrial area, this has turned communal too.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies,But in battalions - William Shakespeare (Hamlet) BIHAR is in mourning. It has lost more than a hundred children in the age group of 1 to 12 years to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in Muzaffarpur, Champaran, Sitamarhi and some other adjoining districts. Heat stroke has also devoured the lives of another hundred people in southern part of the state, particularly Aurangabad, Gaya and Nawada.The recurrence of tragedies of such magnitude never disturbs the ruling dispensation of Bihar.

THE Cauvery Delta districts of Tamil Nadu are considered as the “rice bowl” of the region. The rich soil of this area is known for its three-crop cycle a year producing many a variety of rice, the most famous being Samba Rice. Such a fertile delta land area is being turned into a desert, by allowing capitalist forces to extract hydro-carbon from this rich soil.  In 2016, the central government introduced a new policy of extraction of hydro-carbon materials from the early findings of such reserve across the country.

THE RSS and the sangh parivar are like an epiphyte on a tree; and just like the plant that has its roots in the tree, the RSS also draws its nutrients from the governance structure created by the BJP and it continues to nourish itself even when the BJP is not there. The roots once embedded are very strong. And this is what is being witnessed in MP.Madhya Pradesh is considered as a laboratory for the sangh parivar. The RSS has made strong inroads into the governance structure, right from officers to the lowest rung.

CPI(M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami on June 10, welcomed the verdict by the Pathankot court which convicted six out of seven accused in connection with the Kathua gang-rape and murder case of an eight-year-old nomadic girl.The gruesome gangrape and murder is a crime committed by the enemies of humanity. Crime is a crime irrespective of criminal’s caste, colour and creed.