“THE Anganwadi Worker (AWW) is required to work as a paramedic, counselor, coordinator, public relations manager, event manager, clerk, pre-school teacher, and more… Having regard to the onerous responsibilities upon the AWW and AWH, there appears to be a clear case of discrimination in the matter of public employment since a person who is engaged to carry out multifarious activities, is being paid a very meager amount of emolument on the ground that she is appointed in a scheme…the scheme may be designed to take an advantage of the completely unequal bargaining power to an unemployed lady

THE rapid advance of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other armed factions led to the fall of Bashar al- Assad’s government in Syria. With this, the US has succeeded in toppling the last of the secular regimes in West Asia. US military interventions resulted not only in the fall of secular regimes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and now Syria in the West Asia-North African region, but also created deep sectarian fissures in the region.

Brinda Karat, former Member of Parliament and Polit Bureau member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), has written a letter to the Chief Justice of India on December 9, expressing grave concerns about a public speech made by Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav of the Allahabad High Court. The letter highlights the implications of Justice Yadav’s remarks, delivered at a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) event, which undermines the principles of judicial impartiality and constitutional values.

THE All India Lawyers Union (AILU) has issued a strong condemnation of Justice Shekhar Yadav, a sitting judge of the Allahabad High Court, for delivering a speech at a Vishwa Hindu Parishad event that is against the Constitution and is a direct affront to its basic structure of secularism and judicial independence.

THE All India Kisan Sabha, in a statement issued on December 6, has strongly condemned the repression of the farmers' movement in Gautam Buddh Nagar by the Yogi Adityanath government and demanded immediate steps to address the demands of the farmers.The ongoing farmers' movement in Gautam Buddh Nagar is being forcibly suppressed by the Uttar Pradesh government. The police are going to homes of farmers, threatening and putting them under house arrest. People are being arrested from their homes and on the roads as well.