IT is widely recognised that transportation plays a critical role in any economy, making society as we know it impossible without it. According to the ministry of road transport and highways (MORTH), the road transport sector in India is responsible for transporting 80 per cent of passengers and 62 per cent of goods. This sector contributes 4.5 per cent to the GDP and employs approximately 10 crore workers, including drivers, conductors, mechanics, and booking clerks.

PERHAPS no other section in India has been more thoroughly cheated and short-changed by the Narendra Modi-led BJP-RSS regime than the crores of farmers and agricultural workers, who are truly the ‘annadatas’ of our country.

Some friends of mine have recently written a cogent statement on the violation of elementary freedoms in contemporary India, and, even though I do not, as a rule, sign joint letters, I would like to add my voice to theirs. So this is written as a general statement addressed to my fellow citizens.Under British rule, Indians were often arrested and imprisoned without trial, and some were kept in prison for a long time.

AFTER four long years of wait and struggle demanding elections, students of Jawaharlal Nehru University finally were able to elect their new student union on March 22, 2024, giving a thumping mandate to the United Left Panel consisting of SFI, AISA, DSF and AISF.The very process of conducting elections was a site of struggle between the administration and their allies – the ABVP, and the student community at large.On the one hand, the administration tried to stall the elections by arguing that they do not recognise the outgoing student union and constantly attempting to intervene in the stu

MODI government is systematically working to set up a surveillance and censorship framework for the digital domain, which seeks to undermine our fundamental rights of free speech and privacy. The genesis of many of these initiatives predated the Modi government.