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Puducherry: Persisting Struggle for Reopening Ration Shops

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceTHE Puducherry CPI(M) state unit has initiated a prolonged and widely supported struggle on February 19, 2024. The coalition government of NR Congress and BJP has persistently refused to reopen ration shops across the state since their electoral victory in 2021, causing significant distress to the poor, downtrodden, and middle-class people of Puducherry.

Telangana: House Site Movement Activists Continue to Face Police Wrath

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceTHE poor in Telangana, who have been waging struggles for houses and house site pattas for the last three years, are now looking towards the Revanth Reddy-led Congress government with high expectations. In this background, a state convention was held on February 20 in Hyderabad with the activists of the ‘hut centres’ (centres where landless poor demanding house pattas have erected huts).About 250 activists representing 69 centres in 19

WB: Mass Civil Disobedience Despite Police Atrocities

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceRESPONDING to the call of mass mobilisation, civil disobedience and grameen bandh given by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), and the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions/Federations/Associations and various other mass organisations of the state, Bengal erupted in a wave of protests on February 13.

AIKS Demands Safeguarding the Interests of Farmers in the WTO Negotiations

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceTHE All India Kisan Sabha, in a statement issued on February 28, said the on-going 13th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) at Abu Dhabi clearly demonstrates that its entire mechanism is inherently against the interests of the developing countries in general and against the interests of farmers and the poor producing classes in particular.

Clarification on Electoral Bonds

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 16, 2024REPORTS have appeared in some sections of the media that the CPI(M) has received various amounts as contributions through electoral bonds. The Party wishes to clarify that these reports are false and baseless.  The fact is that the CPI(M) has refused to accept electoral bonds on principle.  That is why it did not even open a designated State Bank of Indi

Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code: A Majoritarian Code

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceTHE Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code adopted by the Uttarakhand assembly is a good example of why the 21st Law Commission headed by Justice S B Chauhan had termed the UCC “neither necessary nor desirable.” The code as adopted by the Uttarakhand assembly is not just flawed on many counts, in some respects it is retrograde and eliminates existing rights.

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