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Delhi CPI(M) protest against Assam CM’s objectionable video tweet

The Delhi State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) organised an immediate protest demonstration today at Jantar Mantar against the objectionable video released from the official Twitter handle of the Bharatiya Janata Party, featuring Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. In the video, he is seen firing a gun while targeting the minority Muslim community.

An Unequal Treaty Reminiscent of the Colonial Era

THE Indo-US Trade Agreement, even leaving aside specific provisions, has two unusual features that mark it out as an Unequal Treaty, of the sort that imperial powers used to impose on countries of the global south that they did not directly rule. The first is the stipulation that, leaving aside commodities excluded altogether from the purview of the agreement, while the U.S. would impose 18 percent import duty on Indian goods, India would impose, according to Donald Trump’s rough description, zero import duty on American goods.

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.

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