Adani’s Fraudulent Empire Exposed

A SMALL US investor firm has challenged the Indian behemoth, the Adani group, and shaken it to its foundations. The Hindenburg Research, a short selling firm, brought out a 129-page report on the Adani group marshaling evidence of all the funding operations and offshore activities of the 578 subsidiaries and shell companies linked to the seven listed companies of the Adani group. The report states that this is the “biggest con in corporate history”. The report lays bare the complex network of funds and shell companies, some of them in Mauritius, Cyprus and UAE which have been used for man

Budget Neglects & Condemns Disabled: NPRD

THIS year’s budget has been no different as far as the disabled community is concerned. They continue to be condemned to the margins and neglected, high sounding rhetoric like “inclusive India” notwithstanding.In comparison to the previous year, there is merely a 1 per cent increase.

Seventeenth Conference of CITU: Unite and Fight for Pro-People Policies

THE 17th Conference of CITU that concluded on January 22, 2023 called upon the working class to get ready to combat and defeat attacks of neoliberalism and communal divisive forces, both being aggressively promoted by the Modi led BJP government.

Karnataka: Anganwadi Workers Demand to be Classified as Teachers

THOUSANDS of Anganwadi workers affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) have been on strike in Karnataka since January 23, 2023. Their primary demand is to be classified as ‘teachers’. They have been sleeping in the open air at Freedom Park in Bengaluru since January 23and are determined to stay the course until their demands are met.Anganwadi centres were set up by the government in 1975 to combat child hunger and malnutrition. They are run by grassroots level workers who are responsible for feeding children as well as pregnant women.

Whither Republic

EVERY Republic Day makes us realise how far we have advanced since founding of our republic. A fundamental premise of our constitution which, in the first place, was enshrined to realise the aspirations of our freedom struggle – a State with common citizenship irrespective of caste, creed, language and culture.

TRIPURA ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS: People Wait to Reject BJP

AMONG the issues like price-hike, loss of livelihood, unemployment, absence of any services in healthcare, education, supply of safe drinking water, electricity and housing etc, most of which are very much acutely prevalent in the state, one core issue has emerged as a crying demand of all sections of people: whether voters of the state would have the opportunity to cast vote by themselves. The Election Commission of India has declared the election schedule to the legislative assemblies of Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland on January 18, 2023.

TN: Thousands Gherao Raj Bhavan to Recall Governor

PROTESTING against the governor’s steadfast propagation of obscurantist ideas on various platforms across the state and consistent disregard for constitutional ethos, the CPI(M) Tamil Nadu state committee organised a gherao of Raj Bhavan at Chennai on January 20.The meeting organised at the gherao site was presided over by K Balakrishnan, state secretary of CPI(M). Polit Bureau member G Ramakrishnan, Central Committee members P Sampath, U Vasuki and P Shanmugam, Madurai MP Su.

The ‘Rent Good’ and Imperialism

ECONOMIC theory makes much of “rent goods”. A “rent good” is one whose supply cannot be augmented at will, simply through investing more on its production; its supply is subject to constraints imposed by nature, because of which there is a certain maximum rate of long-run growth which is exogenously given and cannot be altered at will. If this good is used as an essential input for the production of other goods, then the long-run growth of other goods too gets tethered to this exogenously given maximum rate of growth of the rent good.

The Outrages against the People of Afghanistan

IN January 2023, three important leaders from the United Nations (UN) visited Afghanistan. Amina Mohammed, deputy secretary-general, Sima Bahous, director of UN Women, and Khaled Khairi, assistant secretary-general for the UN’s peacekeeping operations, spent four days in the country, meeting Taliban leaders in Kabul and Kandahar. The UN officials ‘conveyed the alarm over the recent decree banning women for national and international non-governmental organisations, a move that undermines the work of numerous organisations helping millions of vulnerable Afghans’.

Workers Rally: 2023 will be a Year of Struggles

NATIONAL College Grounds in Bangalore was painted red on January 22 with the public rally concluding the 17th All India Conference of Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU). Workers wearing CITU red caps and holding red flags thronged the venue from the afternoon.Tapan Sen, general secretary of CITU addressing the rally of over 20,000 workers, declared that the year 2023 would be a year of struggles.

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