Left Parties Protest against Terror & Rigging

HUNDREDS of people turned up for a dharna at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on May 14, in response to the call given by the Left parties to register their protest against the widespread violence, terror and rigging in the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal.

CITU Denounces SBI’s Backdoor Privatisation

IT has been reported that the State Bank of India (SBI) has signed up with the Reliance Money Infrastructure (RMIL), an Anil Arnbani group company, a 'business correspondent' deal to source a range of banking services. The deal authorises the RMIL to identify borrowers; collect, process, and submit loan applications; promote credit groups; and take up post-sanction monitoring, follow-up and recovery. As the service provider, the RMIL will also collect small-value deposits; sell micro-insurance, mutual fund and pension products; and receive and deliver small-value remittances.

Artists and Academics Condemn Modi's Fascist Remark

The following is the statement issued by Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust on May 8, 2014.

EC Must Stop Misuse of Religion

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) issued the following statement on May 6, 2014.
THE rally addressed by Narendra Modi at Faizabad on May 5 had a portrait of Lord Ram as the backdrop. Narendra Modi also made a direct appeal invoking the name of Ram in his political statements. These are a blatant misuse of religious appeal for electoral purposes. The Election Commission should immediately take action against this electoral offence.

CPI(M) Condemns Savage Killings

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) issued the following statement on May 3, 2014.
THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the savage killing of 31 people by Bodo extremist elements in Kokrajhar and adjoining districts of the Bodoland Territorial Council. This shocking attack targeting Bengali Muslims in various villages has led to the death of a large number of women and children.

May Day Heroes Defy Death

MICHAEL J Schaack, captain of police in Chicago at the time of the Haymarket episode, was in charge of arresting the revolutionaries and framing up charges against them during the historic trial. He was thus deeply involved in the matter from beginning to end and was also a witness to the last days of the martyrs and their martyrdom.

Azamgarh Cries for Its Missing Brothers and Sons

For more than 5 years there is no news of the brother of Abu Talib, a poultry vendor in Azamgarh. Abu Talib and his brother used to work in Mumbai in the jewellery industry. Rashid, the brother, had come home from Mumbai for Ramzan. He was scheduled to return after Eid. However, the Crime Branch of Mumbai police came to Abu Talib one day and said that Rashid was a terrorist. They asked Abu Talib to meet them unofficially which he refused. He told them they can interrogate him formally but he will not meet them unofficially.

High Stakes Election in Andhra Pradesh

THE CPI(M) which is contesting two Lok Sabha seats (Araku and Tirupati) and 33 assembly seats has undertaken intensive campaigning meeting the people. Its top leaders including Polit Bureau members Sitaram Yechury, Brinda Karat, B V Raghavulu, Central Secretariat member V Sreenivasa Rao, CC member K Hemalatha, J&K state secretary Mohd Yusuf Tarigami, Tripura LF ministers Jitendra Choudhary and others campaigned for CPI(M) candidates.

Women’s Orgnanisations Submit Memo to NCW

IN a memorandum submitted to the chairperson of the National Commission for Women on April 30, the national women’s organisations demanded immediate action into the shocking incident of abduction and gang rape of four dalit girls in Bhagana village of Hissar district in Haryana on March 23. The memorandum noted that the perpetrators who have been arrested are sons of highly influential jat families with strong political connections with ruling party.

The Carnage and Outrage in Assam's BTAD

THE Bodoland Territorial Area Districts (BTAD) in lower Assam which had witnessed carnage over the years have, once again, been transformed into a killing zone since May 1 last. The memories of the 2008 ethnic and communal clashes in Darrang-Udalguri districts and the gruesome incidents of the 2012 July-August riots in Kokrajhar-Chirang-Baksa districts within BTAD are still fresh in the minds of the people. The 2012 riots left over 100 dead and 4.85 lakh displaced, some of whom even today live in refugee camps.

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