Crony ‘Haircuts’ for Crony Capitalists

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) came into effect on May 28, 2016, with the President's assent. It was introduced in Parliament as a framework to resolve insolvency proceedings between corporate giants and individuals within a specific timeframe. In 2025, certain amendments to this code were introduced and passed. Under the IBC, if a company goes bankrupt and a resolution is not possible, there are clear procedures to sell the company’s assets through an auction. This is known as the liquidation process.

Assam on the eve of Assembly Election

ALONG with Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry, Assam is going to Assembly poll in March-April this year. The ruling BJP-led front is seeking its third term. On the other side, the anti-BJP forces are gearing up to unseat the ruling parties this time.

BENEFICIARY SCHEMES

Anusuya Is a Fighter Today

ANUSUYA… she is a postgraduate. She belongs to a Scheduled Caste community at Udayarpalayam, a small hamlet in, Ariyalur district.

Subash… he too is a postgraduate. He was born into a Backward Caste community in Arunagiri village, Uthangarai, Krishnagiri district. Both Subash’s and Anusuya’s families had migrated to the industrial town of Tiruppur after failing to find employment in their native villages. Their residences in Tiruppur were close to each other.

AI and the Case for Socialism

AT the recently concluded summit at Davos where the rich and powerful of the world had gathered for their annual jamboree, there was much excitement about Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI of course is not yet so profitable as to be introduced widely, but the capitalists and their backers gathered at Davos believed that the corner would be turned very soon. The question of the unemployment it would generate was raised occasionally but generally brushed aside.

Himachal Farmers Gherao Secretariat Against Apple Import Duty Cut

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Working Class gearing up for Biggest Ever General Strike

“The Country will witness an unprecedented participation of not only workers, but of agricultural workers and peasants and other sections of the people on February 12, 2026, in the all India General Strike”, “the working class of the country will not allow their rights won through decades of fierce class battle under colonial rule and after, to be taken away by the ruling corporate communal nexus” declared the National Convention of Wworkers held on January 9, 2026.

Six points to navigate the turmoil in Iran

Iran is in turmoil. Across the country, there have been protests of different magnitudes, with violence on the increase with both protesters and police finding themselves in the morgue. What began as work stoppages and inflation protests drew together a range of discontent, with women and young people frustrated with a system unable to secure their livelihood.

SIR Chaos in Bengal

West Bengal is currently witnessing an unprecedented state of turmoil centered on the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The hearing phase in the process has become a nightmare for ordinary citizens, especially those from marginalised sections of society. Arbitrary and unilateral decisions by the Election Commission (EC) are fundamentally undermining the democratic structure.

A ‘Controversial’ Film

Nothing could be plainer to see than Israel’s colonial occupation of Palestine. Yet, every time a film shows us this plain fact, it becomes ‘controversial’. So it was that when the documentary film No Other Land (2024, directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor) won several international awards including at the Berlin Film Festival and the Academy Awards (known popularly as the Oscars), it was seen as being ‘controversial’.

How Tehran Neutralised Starlink and Foiled Washington's Colour Revolution playbook

ON JANUARY 8, 2026, something unprecedented occurred in the annals of electronic warfare. Iran activated a multi-layered digital suppression campaign that, within hours, degraded Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service from functional connectivity to what engineers described as a "patchwork quilt" of intermittent access. According to Filter.Watch, an Iranian internet rights monitoring group, packet loss in Tehran surged from 30 per cent to over 80 per cent.

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