Virtual Games, History and Economics

VIRTUAL games or all games that are played on computers, consoles, tablets, mobiles and such other devices, are a direct product of the main technology that is at present used in production process. Their origin can be traced to the military driven research and their interconnectedness. Post Second World War global developments, nuclear arms race and the US’ drive to out-pace the Soviet Union played an important role in the technological developments and innovations of this period.

Draft NEP Perpetuates Discrimination

THE draft of the New Education Policy(NEP) is profoundly regressive and overwhelmingly undemocratic. It continues to perpetuate the existing discrimination against the disabled. It fails to invoke a rights-based approach and refuses to break away from the traditional method of viewing disability.Despite ‘access’ being claimed to be a key “guiding principle”, non-availability of the draft in accessible formats, deprives large sections of the disabled an opportunity to go through a crucial document that will be shaping their lives and those of disabled children and adolescents.

Tripura: A Huge Scam in Paddy Procurement?

THE much hyped paddy procurement drive of the BJP led state government is turning out to be a totally fraudulent exercise. While the actual farmers are being deprived, middlemen are eating up the profit. Recently in Khowai subdivision, paddy procurement programme was held. It was widely circulated that the food department will procure paddy directly from the farmers. But farmers found to their astonishment that a number of non-farmers have also received 'Farmer Certificate' from the agriculture department.

60 Years of Cuban Revolution: Together We Can Defeat Imperialism

THE National Committee for Solidarity with Cuba, and the All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation (AIPSO), have organised a public meeting on ‘60 Years of Cuban Revolution and the Fight against Imperialism’ in New Delhi on July 24.Pallab Sengupta, general secretary of AIPSO, invited the speakers onto the dais. R Arun Kumar, member of the National Committee for Solidarity with Cuba, chaired the session. He introduced the speakers and spoke about the current political context of the meeting.Aleida Guevara and Fernando González addressed the meeting.

CITU Condoles Comrade A K Roy

The CITU is extremely grieved and shocked at the demise of Comrade A K Roy, the veteran leader of the working class movement and a stalwart of struggle of the downtrodden for justice. He was 81 years old and was suffering from age related diseases. Comrade A K Roy joined the trade union movement in his early youth sacrificing his career in those days as a qualified engineer. He was active in organising workers and also distressed people in newly emerging fertiliser industry in extremely backward region of the then Bihar, now in Jharkhand.

West Bengal: CPI(M) Will Forge Links with People

CPI(M) WEST BENGAL state committee has decided to redouble its efforts to forge links with the people to regain their confidence. Two-day state committee meeting on July 23-24 has also decided to initiate series of movements on peoples’ issues.CPI(M) general secretary, Sitaram Yechury, addressing the meeting said, Modi government in its second term has blatantly taken steps against the constitution, constitutional institutions, civil liberties, etc. Bills have been passed to undermine citizens’ fundamental rights. Sangh parivar has become more offensive.

AIKS Rally Flays Forest Dept Attacks on Adivasis

ON July 5, 2019, a large and angry rally of thousands of adivasi peasants led by the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) marched to the Additional Collector's Office at Jawhar in Palghar district of Maharashtra. Despite torrential rains, they laid siege to the office for four hours, with umbrellas in hand. The peasants had come to denounce the forest department officials who had demolished some houses and had dug holes in the forest lands that had been cultivated by adivasis for generations and for which claims under the Forest Rights Act (FRA) were pending.The background to this latest attack by

Fifty Years of First Moon Landing

IT was one of those seminal moments in human history, when those fortunate to have been around ask “where were you when humans first landed on the Moon.” This writer was lucky to have been where he watched that electrifying moment live on television, when US astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on to the lunar surface (followed by Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin) on July 20, 1969, from the lander named “Eagle”, the Apollo 11 spacecraft having been launched from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA, on July 16, 1969.

Fifty Years since Nationalisation: Banks Face Tough Privatisation Attack

BANK nationalisation is going to complete its fifty years glorious journey playing an unprecedented pivotal role in the all-round development of our country’s economy. Public Sector Banks (PSBs) of our country, as on March 31, 2019, hold a sum of Rs 84.86 lakh crores as deposits. 85 per cent of this amount is from small deposits by common people of our country, who keep their savings in bank accounts, mainly in PSBs to meet their future family requirements. They do not go to the stock market for earning some speculating gains.

Editorial Modi on a One-Way Street

THE image of President Trump speaking to the media in Washington in the presence of Pakistan Prime Minister, Imran Khan, about Modi’s purported request to him to mediate on Kashmir has had a shattering effect. The issue is not whether Modi actually asked Trump to mediate or not, but how this episode has revealed the fiasco that Modi’s foreign policy has turned out to be. Imran Khan’s visit to the United States was an affirmation of how the Trump administration has changed its approach to Pakistan.

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