THE latest Hollywood blockbuster "Oppenheimer" is not likely to hit theaters in Japan. The release of “Barbie,” the second superhit of the year, is also under a cloud as Japanese people are irked by social media comments which have combined the two movies as “Barbenheimer.”It is certainly difficult for Japanese audiences to digest a movie eulogising Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist who led the project of making atomic bombs. Moreover, this would be unacceptable to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, whose political constituency is in Hiroshima.
CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on August 01, 2023THE horrifying killing by a Railway Police Force constable of his senior and three other passengers, on a Mumbai bound train should not be seen as the actions of a disturbed mind as is the initial explanation by the authorities, who have set up an investigation. All the passengers killed were Muslims.
CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on August 01, 2023THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the communal conflagration in the Mewat region of Haryana, starting with Nuh and which has now spread to Gurugram, leading to the death of five persons and incidents of arson.
Salaries of employees under NHM are stagnant owing to reduction in the centre’s share and lower allocation; Employees say they are denied even minimum wages.EMPLOYEES of the National Health Mission (NHM) in Kerala held a Raj Bhavan march on August 1 against the continuing neglect of the centrally-sponsored scheme by the union government.
On the occasion of Hiroshima Day, we publish an extract from ‘The Meaning of Hiroshima Nagasaki’ written by ND JayaprakashIN July 1939, Leo Szilard, the Hungarian physicist and a refugee in US, had sought the help of Einstein to persuade the US administration headed by President Roosevelt, to construct an atomic bomb as a counter to an identical programme that, it was then suspected, Nazi Germany had embarked upon.
IN July, Himachal Pradesh experienced substantial rainfall, leading to severe floods and landslides. This rainfall has been unprecedented, with eight districts in the state receiving an unusually high amount of precipitation, a situation never witnessed before. This caused severe floods and landslides, resulting in extensive damage. The government's estimation reveals a staggering loss of Rs 6000 crore during the period from June 24 to July 30, 2023. This figure continues to rise as the ongoing rains persist.
ON August 1, 2023, the Construction Workers Federation of India (CWFI) issued a statement expressing condolences to the bereaved families of 17 construction workers who were killed when a girder machine collapsed on them during the third phase of construction on the Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra's Thane district, in the early hours on August 1.
AMIDST the protests over the burning issue in Manipur, the union minister for coal and mines, Pralhad Joshi, introduced the contentious Mines and Mineral (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill 2023 on July 26, 2023. Regrettably, the bill was passed hastily, without allowing for any detailed discussion or debate on the floor.
THE Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch (AARM), in a statement issued on July 27, has strongly condemned the heinous murder of Comrade Subhash Munda on July 26.