THE Overseas Mobility (Facilitation and Welfare) Bill, 2025, which the Union Government intends to table in the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament, arrives not as a shield for the vulnerable, but as a legislative auction block where the Indian working class is sold to the highest bidder. This Bill represents an institutionalized betrayal, a premeditated retreat by the State from its fundamental duty to protect its citizens.

THE role of US, and specifically of President Donald Trump, is assuming the spectacle of ‘bulldozer’. In India, we are now familiar with the unilateral deployment of ‘bulldozers’ to trample legitimate rights of the weak and the defenceless. In a majoritarian ambience, such display of naked aggression finds loud approval from the bhakt brigade in the social media space.

The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) congratulates the workers, farmers and agricultural workers who made the February 12, 2026, All India General Strike a historic and resounding success. Reports received up to 3:00 PM from across the country indicate that several crore people participated in strike action, demonstrations, picketing and solidarity mobilisations. The strike witnessed massive participation from organised and unorganised sectors, public and private enterprises, multinational companies, scheme workers and rural toilers.

The Delhi State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) organised an immediate protest demonstration today at Jantar Mantar against the objectionable video released from the official Twitter handle of the Bharatiya Janata Party, featuring Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. In the video, he is seen firing a gun while targeting the minority Muslim community.

THE Indo-US Trade Agreement, even leaving aside specific provisions, has two unusual features that mark it out as an Unequal Treaty, of the sort that imperial powers used to impose on countries of the global south that they did not directly rule. The first is the stipulation that, leaving aside commodities excluded altogether from the purview of the agreement, while the U.S. would impose 18 percent import duty on Indian goods, India would impose, according to Donald Trump’s rough description, zero import duty on American goods.