Led by CITU, union leaders met the Workers’ Welfare Board secretary and demanded registration and benefits for MGNREGA workersA DELEGATION of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and Himachal Pradesh Construction Workers Federation met the secretary of Himachal Pradesh Workers Welfare Board in Shimla and handed over a memorandum with their charter of demands.The delegation, consisting of state CITU leaders, told the board secretary that due to a letter issued by the board on December 12, 2022, the work of submission of forms for registration, renewal and assistance

THE Delhi state committee of CPI(M) held a dharna at Jantar Mantar on February 28 to protest against the anti-people budget of the Modi government. The dharna was addressed by CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury who termed the central government's budget as a brazen attack on the people.Public sector enterprises are being handed over to corporates for a pittance. Loans worth lakhs of crores taken by big capitalists from public sector banks have been written off.

EVER since Benjamin Netanyahu formed a coalition government comprising far-right and ultra-orthodox religious parties, at the end of last year, there has been a spate of attacks by the Israeli security forces and Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank.The Netanyahu government has declared that it would work for annexing the West Bank into Israel in flagrant violation of international law which considers the West Bank as occupied territory by Israel ever since the 1967 war. In mid-February, the Israeli government authorised nine previously illegal settlements in the West Bank;

Two BJP leaders and an MLA have been named in the FIRHUNDREDS of CPI(M) workers and supporters protested the brutal murder of Party activist Dilip Sukla Das (55) in Kalyanpur, in Teliamura subdivision of Tripura, on February 19.The names of BJP gram panchayat pradhan Krishna Kamal Das, Kalyanpur mandal secretary Manoj Dev and local BJP MLA figure in the FIR lodged by Das’s sons.Das was dragged out of his house and brutally attacked with stones, sticks and bricks in Dwarikapur village, under the Kalyanpur Police Station, around 11 pm on February 18.

THE electors of Tripura have set a unique example of determined and powerful role to restore democracy, peace, harmony and the rule of law in the state in the assembly elections on February 16. In this amazing battle, practically, the heroic voters themselves emerge as victorious. This election would be a historic example in the state for the zeal that has been exhibited by the electors to exercise their fundamental rights by casting vote by themselves thwarting all machinations, defying intimidation, obstacles, physical attacks in various places plotted and unleashed by the ruling party.