SEVEN years after Nirbhaya case which led to country wide outrage and condemnation, another such ghastly incident took place on the night of November 27, in the outskirts of Hyderabad, taking the nation by shock. A 26 year old woman veterinary doctor working in Kolluru village of Telangana was brutally gang raped and murdered by four youth. It has been reported that the woman was returning to her house in Nagarkurnool district at 9.30 pm that night when her two-wheeler tyre got punctured on the way at Shamshabad in the outskirts of Hyderabad.

ON November 21, on the nationwide call of the Bhumi Adhikar Andolon (land rights movement), thousands of  tribals and other traditional forest dwellers from across the country assembled at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. This was the culmination of the campaign that was started by more than thirty organisations against the Supreme Court’s judgment of February 13, 2019, directing the forest department to evict all those whose claims under the FRA have been rejected.

FOLLOWING are the candidates of CPI(M) for Jharkhand assembly elections .1. Subhash Munda                                          Hatiya2. Praful Linda                                                Khijri3. Vishvadev Singh Munda                            Silli4. Swapan Mahto                                            Behragoda5. Naresh Bharti                                              Chatra6. Mohammad Iqbal                                        Pakud7. Gopin Soren                                                Maheshpur8.

A NATIONAL convention of oil and petroleum workers was held at the Constitution Club, in New Delhi on November 20. It was jointly organised by trade unions of different affiliations as well as the unaffiliated ones functioning in ONGC, IOC, OIL, BPCL and HPCL. Around 300 representatives from these oil PSUs from all over the country participated in the convention. The delegates came from the states of Assam, West Bengal, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and national capital of Delhi.The inaugural address was delivered by INTUC president G Sanjeeva Reddy.

ON November 13, joint militant demonstrations and dharnas were organised in most of the district headquarters led jointly by the CPI(M), CPI and Mahagathbandhan partners of Bihar.Raising slogans against the anti-people, anti democratic and communal policies pursued by the central and state governments, the leaders and cadres of the platform in large numbers paraded the main thoroughfares in different districts and submitted the charter of demands, highlighting the failures of the government of the day on each and every front.  The 15 years misrule of the present regime has aggravated, the m