Love Jihad: RSS Unleashes Weapon of Hate

Pichhle saal dange hue, khoob hui khoon ki barish.Agle saal achhi hogi fasal matdaan ki.-Gorakh Pandey(Last year there were riots, an ample monsoon of blood.Next year will bring a rich harvest during elections.)IT has been a long standing strategy of the BJP and the RSS to try and divide the society on communal lines and use the dogmatic thinking and blind-fold ignorance of some people as side-kicks to gain electoral success. One of the latest ploys for polarisation framed by some communal Hindutva outfits is a myth called ‘Love Jihad’.

KARNATAKA: Thousands March Demanding Land Rights and Action against Land Mafia

BANGALORE was a sea of Red on October 13 as more than 20,000 peasants, agricultural workers and rural masses came from across Karnataka and marched for land rights for the landless, rights over the Bagair-Hukum land and forest land being cultivated by over 16 lakh poor peasants, homestead land for the homeless, and against corporate takeover of land. As the unprecedented mobilisation rose up over the Anand Rao Circle Flyover and descended to reach the Freedom Park with thousands of Red flags fluttering high it was a sight to behold.

November Revolution and its Significance Today

IN line with certain glaring trends of' global socio-ethical degeneration which basically, apart from many other concomitant factors, have facilitated the emergence and also the impact of what might be termed the Gorbachev phenomenon in the erstwhile USSR, in August 1991, when a somewhat phoney attempt at a coup d'e'tat was overcome with suspicious case, Gorbachev, yielding reluctantly to a more blatant, if also slippery accomplice, Yeltsin, said: "My mission is fulfilled".

SFI Organises All India University Students’ Convention in Hyderabad

THE Students’ Federation of India has organised an all India convention of university students from October 17-19 at Osmania University in Hyderabad.On the first day, a huge rally of students was organised, which started from Osmania NCC gate to Arts College, where it took the form of a public meeting. Cultural activists of Praja Natya Mandali led the rally in their traditional attire, symbolising the heroic legacy of the Telangana Armed Struggle that continues to inspire people’s struggles even today. Prof.

Problems of Jute Cultivation and Jute Industry

JUTE is the oldest cash crop of eastern India. It is a natural coarse fibre, made from the stems of a tropical plant and used for making rope/yard and woven into sacking, hessian, etc. Raw jute, as it is known in trade, comprises jute and mesta fibres. Jute fibre is obtained from two plants species, such as Corchorus Capsylaris (white jute) and Corchorus Otitoruus (tossa jute). The plant species Hibiscus sabdariffa var, altissima yield mesta fibres. Besides, there is another type of fibre known as bimli but not in the same species of jute.

Dilma Rousseff’s Victory

THE American “mainstream” media have tried to play down Dilma Rousseff’s victory in the presidential election in Brazil by emphasising the “narrowness” of her victory-margin, even though they would never be grudging in their acknowledgement of Bush Jr’s victory which was by a far narrower margin.

Necessity of Electoral Reforms

RESULTS of recently held elections to the 16th Lok Sabha preceded by high decibel and most expensive campaign underline the dark side of largest democracy in the world. We may take note of few facts to understand the malaise in our electoral process. USE OFMONEY POWERThe pernicious influence of big money in derailing the democratic process was noticed by the Vohra committee.

WEST BENGAL: Police-TMC Nexus Led to Massacre in Parui

RECURRING clashes, murders and kangaroo courts have promoted Parui in Birbhum district to the headlines for a number of times in the last few years. On October 27, a clash in Makhra village in Parui has claimed three lives. The clash came as continuation of events starting from the recovery of 800 bombs from a Government Health Centre and attack on police personnel. The clash occurred as Trinamool Congress miscreants were mobilised to establish their domination in the village after erosion in their rank and file. The incident exposed the ‘peace’ settled in Bengal villages.

U-turn ki Sarkar

The CPI(M) has begun a campaign on Facebook www.facebook.com/cpimcc which is focussing on the U-turn of Modi Sarkar under the slogan "ab ki baar U-turn ki Sarkar". The campaign has started today and will run for ten days.

AIKS Condemns Brutal Attack on Its leaders by TMC Goons in Bengal

The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has issued the following statement on October 18.

THE Paschim Banga Krishak Sabha has conducted an intense jatha campaign from October 15-19 in Bengal and reached out to the peasantry spread across over 38,000 villages with a ten-point demand charter and mobilised them in protest against the anti-peasant policies of the BJP-led central government and the TMC-led state government.

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