Growth Estimates with Incongruent Trends

THE first quarter year-on-year estimates of GDP for the current FY 2025-26 turns out to be higher than the last year’s quarter one figures. But these are estimates and hence need to be dissected and seen in relation to other official estimates provided by the government. At the outset a 7.8 per cent growth rate in the first quarter of 2025-26 is higher than all the four quarterly year-on-year growth estimates of the previous year. This is important particularly when lot of uncertainty emerges in the global trade relations.

National Convention of Workers, Peasants And Agricultural Workers

A National Convention of workers, peasants and agricultural workers was jointly held on September 16, by CITU, AIKS and AIAWU at HKS Surjeet Bhavan, New Delhi, to strengthen the worker-peasant unity to fight the corporate-communal nexus.

Prime Minister's Manipur Visit: Empty Rhetoric, Zero Empathy

THE prime minister recently made an inordinately delayed visit to Manipur after 28 months – 864 days to be precise – of internecine ethnic violence that was presided over by the then BJP-led government in the state under chief minister Biren Singh. The visit itself was a desperate move to try and retrieve lost political ground in the state.

Central Committee Communique

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met from 13-15 September 2025 at HKS Surjeet Bhavan, New Delhi and issued the following communiqué on September 16, 2025THE economic policies of the BJP-led union government continue to push the country into crisis. People are suffering from rising prices, stagnant wages, and widening inequalities.

Bihar: Fight for Democracy Intensifies

THE grand culmination of the successful Voter Adhikar Yatra in Patna, attended by most opposition leaders of the INDIA Alliance, gave a significant boost to the ongoing movement to protect the democratic and secular character of the Indian republic that is under constant threat from the RSS-backed Modi regime.

Assam: Land Grabbing: The Corporate-BJP Nexus

WHILE the tribal belts and blocks were envisaged by the government of Assam immediately after independence as an effective mechanism to protect land – especially for various tribal communities of the Brahmaputra Valley – the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution was framed for the administration of the hill tribes of erstwhile Assam.

GST Rate Reforms Must Benefit People - States Demand Fairness and Transparency

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi announced a drastic change in the GST rates on August 15 during his Independence Day speech at the Red Fort, calling it a ‘Diwali Gift’ to the people of India. In fact, the responsibility for decision-making related to GST rates constitutionally rests with the GST Council, comprising the union finance minister and the finance ministers of all states.

Argentina: Students, Teachers, Workers Hold Mass Protest Against Milei

Following Milei’s veto of a law that seeks to improve conditions in university education, thousands of students, teachers, and workers will take to the streets in protest across Argentina.TENS of thousands of students, teachers, and workers will march in the streets in cities across Argentina on September 17, for the Federal University March.

Defend Education: Scrap LOCF Now

ON August 20, 2025, the University Grants Commission (UGC) released the draft Learning Outcomes-based Curriculum Framework (LOCF) for anthropology, chemistry, commerce, economics, geography, home science, mathematics, physical education, and political science. In its public notice, the UGC stated that this draft was shaped in line with the recommendations of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The BJP and organisations affiliated with the RSS were the only ones to welcome NEP 2020.

Urban Flooding and Climate Change

FLOODING due to heavy rainfall in major urban centres, which used to be witnessed once in a while, has of late become commonplace, occurring almost annually.

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