ON Children’s Day, November 14, thousands of Anganwadi workers and helpers across the country held massive mobilisations, demanding the enactment of a law to ensure Early Childhood Development (ECD), the institutionalisation of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme on its 50th anniversary, and the implementation of the recent Gujarat High Court order on the regularisation of Anganwadi workers and helpers.The All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers (AIFAWH) organised these events as part of a year-long campaign to mark the golden jubilee of the ICDS Scheme, no

JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva assures that the power given by the people will be used to fulfil their expectations. He made this assurance while addressing a press conference of the National People’s Power held at the JVP head office at Pelawaththa on November 15th afternoon after the release of the election results.

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on November 21THE indictment filed in a United States court by the Department of Justice against Gautam Adani and six others contain serious charges of Adani and his nephew Sagar Adani being involved in paying bribes to Indian government officials at the centre and states level.  The indictment states that Rs 2,029 crores was offered or promised to Indian government officials to get state electricity distribution companies to execute power sale agreements for the supply of solar power. The case has come up in t

WHAT can you possibly call it when history repeats itself many times over, way beyond tragedy and farce? That old horror story, India’s efforts at “urgent” procurement of fighter aircraft to make up for depleting of fleet strength, is set to start all over again. Authoritative sources have been telling various media outlets that the government will “soon” issue a Request for Proposal (RfP), in other words a tender, for 114 Multi-Role Fighter Aircraft (MRFA) valued at an estimated $20 billion (INR 1 lakh forty thousand crore) to be manufactured in India.

IT is common for governments these days to provide fiscal transfers to capitalists, whether through reduced corporate tax rates, or by providing direct cash subsidies, to encourage greater investment by them and thereby stimulate the economy. During Donald Trump’s first presidency there had been a cut in corporate tax rate with this objective in mind. In India the Modi government, as is well-known, has given massive tax concessions with the same objective.