THE Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Yogi Adityanath, has virtually declared that a new front is being opened up in the temple-mosque issue.  This time, it is the Gyanvapi mosque and the Vishwanath temple in Varanasi.

THE CPI(M) Madurai urban and rural district committees jointly organised a special conference on the ‘Protection of States’ Rights’ on July 23, at Madurai. Addressing the conference, CPI(M) general secretary, Sitaram Yechury said the violence in Manipur is an attack on federalism and plurality of the country unleashed by the BJP has been trying to convert the secular democratic republic of India into a fascist Hindutva rashtra.Yechury said the freedom struggle underlined the need to uphold diversity such as of language, culture and religion.

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 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.