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Condemn the Brutal Murder of Com Samineni Ramarao

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on October 31, 2025THE Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the brutal murder of Comrade Samineni Ramarao, a veteran farmers leader and former State Committee member of the united Andhra Pradesh CPI(M) State Committee.Comrade Ramarao was attacked early this morning by Congress goons at his native village, Patarlapadu, in Khammam district of Telangana state.

Formation and activities of Naujawan Bharat Sabha - I

Sometime in 1924, Bhagat Singh returned to Lahore to be with her ailing grandmother. Following his return to Lahore, Bhagat Singh started going to college, though maybe not regularly. In the meantime, college teachers had conceived of a forum for the youth to enhance their education and national consciousness. Chhabil Das, the then principal of National College, Lahore, recalled in an interview years later that the Naujawan Bharat Sabha was formed around 1924 by senior professors, he being one of them.

Modi Government’s Sleight-of-Hand

THE Modi government has made much of the revision in rates of the Goods and Services Tax that it has announced. Its propaganda machine has worked overtime to tom-tom the benevolence of the government, how it has lightened the load on the common man precisely when the common man needed it the most, that is, during the festive season. Every coach in the Delhi metro has multiple government advertisements, with pictures of Modi and of the Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, claiming that 390-plus goods have become cheaper because of the GST revision.

Hate Filled ‘Othering’ of RSS-BJP Will Have Diminishing Returns

Lord Curzon must be chuckling in his grave. Recently, in Karimganj district rechristened as Sribhumi in Barak valley, a local Congress leader sang Rabindranath Tagore’s iconic song “Amar Sonar Bangla, Ami tomay bhalobasi”. It immediately drew a sharp reaction from the Himanta Biswa Sarma government. The Chief Minister himself pounced on this seeing ‘an opportunity’ to demonise the opposition and question their loyalty. This song has been adopted as the national anthem of Bangladesh after the triumph of the national liberation movement and formation of the new republic in 1971.

A Shower of 127 Punishing 'Sikkas'

THE night of November 2, witnessed the silent fracturing of patriarchy, hidden behind the victory of an iron-willed determination at DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai. This was not just a final; it was the end of a half-century-long wait for Indian cricket, an epic night whose creators were our own daughters.After a journey spanning 50 long years, wiping away the pain of twice returning from the doorstep of the final - Harmanpreet Kaur's India finally won their first World Cup.

A Tectonic Shift Signalling the ‘Spring of Hope’

The poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty overlooking the New York harbour is Emma Lazarus's “The New Colossus”, which begins with “Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, / With conquering limbs astride from land to land; / Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand / A mighty woman with a torch...” The poem concludes with the iconic lines, “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

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