As Joblessness Grows, People Question Modi Government’s Policies

MODI government’s single biggest failure – betrayal is a better word for it – is on the jobs front. Two years ago Modi was voted to power because he promised again and again in his campaign speeches that the days of joblessness are going to be over soon, “achche din” (good times) are coming. In a country which has been reeling under ‘jobless growth’ for the past several years, and ever increasing number of people, especially youth were severely under-employed, Modi’s words were welcomed by many.

NPRD Demands Withdrawal of Notification

THE National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD) has written to prime minister Narendra Modi on May 25 urging him to withdraw the notification renaming the department of empowerment of persons with disabilities as the “department of empowerment of persons with disabilities (divyangjan)”. They had written to him earlier on January 22, 2016 urging him to shelve any plan that the government may have to use the term “divyang” to address people with disabilities.

Brazil: The Coup against the People

THE vote in the lower house of the Brazilian parliament (the Chamber of Deputies) on April 18 to forward the case for the impeachment of the president, Dilma Rousseff, to the upper house (senate), was the first big step taken by the coup plotters in ousting the popularly elected president of the Republic. Dilma, Brazil's first female president, had won reelection only eighteen months ago for a second four year term in office.

‘Condemn Intimidation by Chhattisgarh Govt’

IN a statement issued on May 24 by the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT), the signatories to which were eminent academicians, writers and artists, it has strongly condemned the Chhattisgarh government and its police force for using intimidation and threats of a criminal case against academics and political activists investigating human rights abuses in the southern parts of the state, especially Bastar and Dantewada. A fact finding team consisting of Prof. Archana Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Prof.

On Modi Led BJP Govt’s Foreign Policy

NARENDRA Modi, the chief executive of Indian democracy has been riding on the back of three horses’ – the globalised monopoly capitalist classes of India, the transnational monopoly capitalism and the Hindu Sangh Parivar of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and every important agenda of the Modi government is guided and determined by the interests and goals of these three driving forces which have guided prime minister Modi in decisions from 2014 to 2016.If on one hand, every basic economic policy followed by the Modi government during its two years of rule has been openly supportive of monop

Inhumane Working Conditions of the Loco Running Staff

THE All India Loco Running Staff Association has written to the minister of railways, Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu on the reigning hot summer in our country and its adverse effect on the safety, health and work place environment of the loco pilots of Indian railway. According to the reports of the meteorological department, an increase of about 2 degrees to 6 degrees centigrade above normal in atmospheric temperature has been recorded in our country during this summer season compared to the past and it is anticipated that the condition would prevail until the arrival of normal monsoon.

CPI(M) Wins over 100 Gram Panchayats In Nashik and Thane-Palghar Districts

IN elections held last month to a limited number of gram panchayats (GPs) whose five-year term of office were to mature in the month of June 2016, the CPI(M) won over 100 gram panchayats in its two main adivasi bastions of Nashik and Thane-Palghar districts with a clear majority. It also won four GPs in Nanded district in the two tehsils of Kinwat and Mahur, and one GP in the Taloda tehsil of Nandurbar district.In these contests, the Party trounced the BJP, Shiv Sena, Congress, NCP and MNS, who fought either separately or in bizarrely opportunistic alliances.

Some Lessons from Dr Ambedkar’s Struggle for Hindu Law Reforms

PART 1 Challenging Hindu Orthodoxy AS part of the observance of the 125th anniversary of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, the Sangh Parivar including its top leaders in parliament have willfully distorted and thereby sought to destroy the legacy of his multifaceted brilliant contributions in the making of independent India.One such aspect is Dr Ambedkar’s understanding of the subjugation of women in India, its links with the system of Chaturvarna and the urgent need for reform within Hindu laws.

FOLA-India Holds Seminar on Latin America

FRIENDS of Latin America – India (FOLA - India) organised a seminar titled “Human Rights and Democracy in Latin America” on May 13, 2016, at Prof. Anita Banerjee Memorial Hall, Jadavpur University, jointly with School of Media, Communication and Culture, Jadavpur University.

TELANGANA: Sundarayya Memorial Lecture Held in Hyderabad

THIS year, the Sundarayya Memorial Lecture was organised on the theme, ‘Health Sector – Current Situation – Solutions’. The programme was organised at Sundarayya Vignana Kendram on May 19 in connection with the 31st death anniversary of Comrade Puchalapalli Sundarayya, founder general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).Professor K Srinatha Reddy, chairman of Public Health Foundation of India, delivered the memorial lecture.

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