Symposium on Self-Reliance: Report

THE symposium on ‘Self-Reliance in Science & Technology (S&T) and Development’, organised by the Delhi Science Forum (DSF) is association with the All India Peoples Science Network (AIPSN) and held in P Ramamurti Bhavan in Delhi on November12-13, was an eye-opener in more ways than one.

Puducherry: ‘Double Engine’ Rule is Ruining Development

THE CPI(M) state organising committee of Puducherry organised a special conference on November 13. This special conference, which was the first major public programme being held in Puducherry after it was given recognition as a state committee by the Party Central Committee, witnessed an unprecedented mass gathering of Party members and public, at the Kamban Kalai Arangam Auditorium.This was preceded by a colourful rally led by hundreds of red volunteers, who marched with flags to the sound of the thappattam – the drum beat of the oppressed.

Kerala Raj Bhavan March: Stop Misuse of Governor's Post

THOUSANDS of people in Thiruvananthapuram marched towards Raj Bhavan on November 15, to register their protest against Governor Arif Mohammed Khan's persistent interventions in the functioning of universities of Kerala.

The New Cold War Endangers The People of Northeast Asia

ON November 13, 2022, US President Joe Biden met with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The focus of their public remarks was North Korea. ‘For years’, Biden said, ‘our countries have been engaged in a trilateral cooperation out of a shared concern for the nuclear and missile threats North Korea poses to our people’. Kishida concurred, worrying that the tension in the Sea of Japan would continue.

CPC 20th Congress: Only a Good Blacksmith can Forge Good Steel

THE first group study session of the CPC Polit Bureau held on October 25 (two days after the conclusion of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China) deliberated on the regulations for strengthening and safeguarding the Party Central Committee's ‘centralised, unified leadership’, and the detailed rules for the implementation of the eight-point decision on work conduct.The very next day (October 26), Xi Jinping led members of the Standing Committee of the Polit Bureau to visit Yan'an, an old revolutionary base in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

Comrade Manik Biswas

COMRADE Manik Biswas, CPI(M) Tripura state committee member, secretary of Udaipur sub-divisional committee and a dedicated leader of peasant and agricultural workers died on November 14, 2022 at GBP Cancer Hospital, Agartala. He was 71 and unmarried.Comrade Manik Biswas was diagnosed with cancer in 2016.

Kerala: BJP Governor against the LDF Govt

“With the Narendra Modi-led government at the centre...some governors are behaving like independent agents, although their role is to be advised by the executive and to discharge fixed duties.” The Telegraph, October 28“Kerala Governor’s...words and actions do not behove the office he occupies.

Workers’ Party Korea: Five Aspects of Party Building in New Era

ON October 17, Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and president of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, gave a commemorative lecture at the central cadres training school of the WPK on the ‘Orientation of the Building of Our Party in the New Era and the Tasks of the Central Cadres Training School of the Workers' Party of Korea’.

Gujarat: SFI Holds State Conference

AFTER a long hiatus of 33 years, the state Conference of SFI's Gujarat state unit was held on November 6, 2022 in Ahmedabad and it was SFI Gujarat's third state conference. The second conference of SFI Gujarat was held at Sidhpur (Patan) on January 31-February 1, 1989. The third conference was inaugurated by V P Sanu SFI, all India president and Nitheesh Narayanan, SFI central secretariat member. Arun Mehta, CITU Gujarat state secretary and Hitendra Bhatt, AIIEA joint secretary, Satish Parmar, CITU Gujarat state president had extended revolutionary greetings to the SFI conference.

American Democracy in Doldrums

DESPITE inflation hovering above 8 per cent, the American voters have not really focused on the performance of the sitting president in the 2022 US mid-term elections. Breaking away from the norm of punishing the sitting president’s party, the electorate has voted tactically to defeat the possibility of the return of Donald Trump.

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