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AIDWA welcomes landmark Supreme Court judgement on menstrual hygiene

The All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) has welcomed the landmark judgment of the Supreme Court of India, which has rightfully recognised menstrual hygiene as a fundamental right under the Constitution. By linking menstrual health to the Right to Life, Dignity, and Education (Articles 14, 21, and 21A), the bench of Justice J.B. Pardiwala and Justice R. Mahadevan has addressed a long-standing systemic barrier that has historically forced girl students into absenteeism and becoming dropouts.

The Perverse Strategy of the Budget

 SINCE even the highest bourgeois oracle, the IMF, has cast doubts on the veracity of India’s GDP estimates, the precise budget figures based on the assumptions of a certain level, and growth rate, in nominal GDP, mean very little; in fact, the current budget, while announcing several tax measures, has not even bothered to give estimates of how much revenue loss or gain they would cause.

Politics of Displacement and Reclamation of Citizenship: Loka Kerala Sabha as a Socialist Model

TO grow up in Vengara, a quiet geography in the Malappuram district of Kerala, is to witness the paradoxical nature of global capitalism from the front row. I do not write this from the perspective of an expatriate family; my own lineage remained rooted in the soil of Malabar. Yet, as an observer born into this historic cradle of Gulf migration, I have watched my village transform.

‘Fiscal Prudence’ at the Cost of Common People

THE finance minister Ms Nirmala Sitharaman presents her ninth budget for the financial year 2026-27 with an estimated GDP of the economy pegged at Rs 393 lakh crores, 10 per cent higher than the GDP of Rs 357 lakh crores estimated for the current financial year. Before the budget, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released the First Advance Estimate of GDP for the year 2025-26 on January 7, 2026 and the Economic Survey 2025-26 was tabled by the Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran on January 29.

An Imbalanced Trade Deal

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on February 03, 2026.

The announcement of a trade deal between the US and India has generated euphoria in the corporate media. But this is completely misplaced as the details of the agreement are not yet available. It is only when the full scope and details of the trade deal are available, one can make a proper assessment.

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