THE All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) strongly feels that the Allahabad High Court's judgement which refused to protect a young couple who had approached it for protection from any coercive action presumably from their family or the police, is totally erroneous.In a statement issued on November 2, AIDWA said that the couple had approached the court in a writ petition after they got married under Hindu rites. While the boy was a Hindu, the girl had converted to Hinduism from Islam.

A YEAR after arbitrary J&K Reorganisation Act was implemented in an undemocratic and unjust manner on October 31 last year, the onslaught by the BJP government at the centre on the basic and democratic rights of people of Jammu and Kashmir continues unabated.A state with special status was divided and deprived of its status without any reference to the opinion of its people which is in blatant violation of Article 3 of the constitution.

COMRADE K Thangavel, an outstanding leader of the communist movement from the Kongu region of Tamil Nadu which includes the districts of Coimbatore, Tiruppur and Erode as well as the Nilgiris, passed away on September 13, 2020 in Coimbatore. He was aged 68 years.

YOUNG couples exercising their constitutional rights to enter into inter-caste and inter-community self-choice marriages have often to go to various courts in different parts of the country to seek their protection.

THE spectre of unemployment is stalking the country.  After the pandemic broke out and the hasty lockdown, millions lost their jobs in industry, small businesses, service sector and, above all, in informal sector.Even prior to the Covid-lockdown, unemployment had grown tremendously.  Demonetisation and the implementation of the GST had affected petty producers and small enterprises leading to a steep rise in unemployment.  The 2017-18 Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), which the government tried to suppress, showed that the unemployment rate had increased to a level that was unprecedented