MASSIVE protests in Leh over statehood, legislature and Sixth Schedule left some dead, dozens injured and number of people arrested including widely known environmentalist, Sonam Wangchuk The reorganization of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019 was pushed forward as a move, ‘to strengthen integration, elimination of terrorism, and ushering in development’.  Five years on, however, the discontent that began in Kashmir has spread to Jammu and lately to Ladakh, raising uncomfortable questions about the path chosen by New Delhi.

THE Israeli genocide of Palestinians has been going on for two years – a ‘live-streamed genocide’, as Amnesty International called it in April 2025 in its annual report. Thus far, Israel has murdered over 66,000 Palestinians – the overwhelming majority being civilians, and 20,000 of the dead being children (a Palestinian child has been killed every hour since October 2023).

IN Kerala, there are no ‘migrant workers’ in the conventional sense; they are instead known as ’guest workers’. This framing itself reflects how the state perceives them. Nearly 35 lakh such workers are employed across Kerala, making the state their preferred destination. On the one hand, relatively high wages, steady demand for labour and safer working conditions attract them; on the other hand, unemployment, low wages and infrastructural deficits in their home states push them outward.

ALL India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) strongly protests against the inhuman and brutal lynching of Aasif Babu Multani alias Sheru Susadiya who died on September 20, 2025, at Sawai Man Singh Medical College, Jaipur. He was lynched by a gang of cow vigilante criminals in the early hours of September 16, when he was transporting cattle purchased from Lambia Raila cattle market near Bhilwara in Rajasthan to his village in Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh.According to Superintendent of Police Bhilwara, Dharmendra Singh, five people have been arrested and an FIR registered.

THE most recent revelations about Microsoft’s deep ties with Israel’s war machine have once again laid bare the central role of U.S. Big Tech in enabling the genocide in Gaza.