15th November was the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda. He was an iconic fighter of the tribals of Chotanagpur for the rights of the tribal people for water, forest and land. This fight in the early parts of the nineteenth century developed as an integral part of our peoples’ struggle against colonial British rule and earned Birsa that iconic status. However, Birsa’s contribution went far beyond. His intellectual and philosophical imagination introduced a larger world view from the tribal traditional life and livelihood standpoint. This analysis throws light on these aspects.

EMPLOYMENT across the world is undergoing changes. The changes are multi-dimensional, driven by shifting nature of labour contract by skill grades, impacted by uncertainty and shocks in supply chains. However, the tendencies are neither uniform across countries nor do they show uniformity in direction of change. In some advanced countries, as reported by the ILO in a recent report, unemployment rate has fallen although market sentiments are sluggish.

THE Bihar assembly election is a watershed in the electoral history of our country. Conducted against the backdrop of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) announced on June 25, it laid out a new set of ground rules for adult franchise.The debates in the Constituent Assembly, which framed the Constitution, had envisaged a democracy which was to be ‘by the people, for the people and of the people’. Electoral democracy was its cornerstone. It was premised on the legacy of the freedom struggle which underpinned the role of the citizen as its bedrock.

THE 16th Conference of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), Tamil Nadu, concluded with a clarion call to the workers of the state to campaign and participate in the Road Roko Agitation in January 2026 against the communal, divisive policies of the Modi-led BJP government, for repeal of the four labour codes, to safeguard the rights of the working class, to regulate the work of the scheme workers like Anganwadi, Asha and Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam, for regularising contract workers, to ensure the eight-hour workday and to increase the benefits to the beneficiaries of the social security

On October 1, 2025, BSNL completed the silver jubilee of its formation. It is indeed 25 years of glorious service to the nation. The government formed this corporation on October 1, 2000, by converting the Department of Telecom Services and the Department of Telecom Operations. The idea was to quickly start disinvestment and then to ultimately privatise it.