NOTWITHSTANDING the tall claims made by the BJP government in Jammu and Kashmir about normalcy and economic development post 2019, the truth remains that there is a depressing scenario prevalent on multiple fronts in the state.First of all, there is a dire political vacuum in the state in the absence of elections and popular government. The statehood has been denied in the most unconstitutional and brazen manner. This is a blatant infringement on the basic constitutional and democratic rights of the people of the state.

THE true meaning of ‘Amrit Kaal’ is unfolding with the relentless attacks on the Muslim minorities accompanied by hate speech and glorification of Gandhiji’s killer, Godse. In Maharashtra, the Shinde-BJP government has gone on a spree of renaming cities which have Muslim names. Aurangabad has become Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Osmanabad is now Dharashiv, Ahmednagar district has been declared to be Ahilyabai Holkar Nagar. These changes were accompanied by majoritarian triumphalism and the demonising of Muslim rulers and historical figures.

AT the invitation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), a five-member CPI(M) Central Committee delegation headed by general secretary, Sitaram Yechury including Jogendra Sharma, member, Central Secretariat, CS Sujatha, Hira Lal Yadav and Deblina Hembram, all  members of the Central Committee, visited Vietnam from June 7-10, 2023.This short visit was packed with  very intensive programmes that included five major discussions with Party leaders; paying revolutionary homage to Com Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum and a visit to an industrial park and discussions with th

SINCE the global financial crisis, investment growth has not recovered to its pre-crisis level worldwide. India despite being a fast growing economy, the growth in gross fixed capital formation shows a declining trend in the past two decades. In the post-crisis period, the governments introduced various institutional reforms in the rubric of ‘ease of doing business’, also corporates could have greater access to finance and external borrowings and public investment was geared to crowd in private corporate investment.

Enable GingerCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on June 3The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) considers the recommendations of the Law Commission on tweaking the Sedition clause of the Indian Penal Code to be inconsistent with and negating the Supreme Court’s observations.The Supreme Court had stayed the operation of the Sedition Act until the union government takes appropriate legislative steps to remove this anachronistic law from the statute books.The Law Commission, however, appears to have further strengthened the provisions of the Sedition law b