INDIA’s ban on Chinese apps for allegedly protecting India’s data sovereignty, becomes suspicious when we see no such problem with the US companies doing exactly that: taking Indian citizens data out of the country.Ravi Shankar Prasad, the minister for electronics and information technology and communications, in a self congratulatory vein, has approvingly noted how President Trump is following India by banning Chinese apps. Trump’s attempt is to force Byte Dance to sell its assets – TikTok app – in the US to a US company.

AS we approach our 73rd Independence Day, a new national narrative is being scripted to bequeath to India’s future.  This narrative of a `New India’ suggests that on August 15, 1947, India achieved its independence; on August 5, 2019, with the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian constitution; and August 5, 2020, when the Ram temple construction was formally launched by the prime minister is the day of India’s real freedom.This new narrative is the complete negation of and the antitheses of India’s epic struggle for independence and the republic that emerged under the Indian con

OPPOSITION parties in Telangana including the Left parties, TDP, TJS, Telangana Inti party, along with mass organisations gave a joint call to protest the government’s failure to contain the spread of Covid-19 in the state. A forum ‘Rachabanda’, formed by the members of the opposition parties, met on August 3,  through online platforms to come up with a joint action plan  and has decided to hold state wide demonstrations and protests by flying black balloons and black flags on the protest day. The forum is headed TJS state president Prof.

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on August 3THE CPI(M) had all through maintained that the Ayodhya dispute must be resolved either through a mutually acceptable negotiated agreement between the contending parties, or, through a court verdict.  The Supreme Court had given its verdict and paved the way for the construction of the temple.

Flávio Dino of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB), was elected governor of the state of Maranhão with more than 63 per cent popular vote. Amidst the overall failure of the Brazilian State under the leadership of right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro to control the Covid pandemic, Maranhao stands as an exception. Led by the PCdoB coalition, the state earned plaudits for its efforts to control the pandemic and emerge as a beacon of hope in the entire country.