THE farmers of Greater Noida took out a march to parliament on February 8, after the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government failed to implement the written assurances on the various demands of farmers and landless from land acquisition affected villages given on September 16, 2023.

SOME of the most prominent AI startups, tech companies, their executives, researchers and engineers would have us believe that artificial intelligence (AI) poses an existential risk to humanity and should be considered a societal risk on par with pandemics and nuclear wars.

THE working committee of CITU, which met in Hanumakonda, Telangana from February 2-3, has called upon the working class of India to intensify decisive class actions to isolate and defeat the corporate-communal nexus running the government. The working committee has also called upon the working class across the country to actively participate in nationwide joint protest actions, rural bandh, and sectoral strikes called by the central trade unions (CTUs) and the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on February 16.K Hemalata, president, CITU hoisted the red flag and presided over the meeting.

THE BJP government holds that truth is what Modi says; if evidence points otherwise then evidence must be wrong and should be suppressed. Modi says that India never had it so good as during the last decade of his government; but since official statistics contradict him, the statistics must be wrong and the statistical system must be changed. In this manner one of the finest statistical systems of the global south, built with great effort and care, is being demolished by this government.

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 1.DESPITE the tall claims made by the finance minister about the state of India’s economy, the interim union budget for 2024-25 reveals the grim economic situation confronting India’s working people and the vicious face of the Modi government’s conception of ‘development’ which is designed to make the rich, richer and the poor, poorer.