THE Delhi Union of Journalists and its Gender Council, in a statement issued on February 16, has condemned the arbitrary sacking of editor Angshukanta Chakraborty by the India Today group for a personal tweet opposing hate news and fake news and demanding action against its purveyors. Her February 4 tweet said: “Promoters turning a blind eye to hate-mongering, fake news spreading anchors, editors, reporters and writers, or hiring them in the first place, must be tried in court as hate speech enablers-profiteers.

NALGONDA was the epicentre of the Telangana Armed Struggle which brought to fore the land issue.  Nalgonda which had a background of Left struggles and strong Left movement hosted the second conference of CPI(M) Telangana from February 4-7, 2018. A huge rally led by the red-shirt volunteers preceded the inauguration of the conference.The conference began with the hoisting of the red flag by Kunja Bojji, former MLA and senior leader of CPI(M), at Comrade Narra Raghava Reddy Nagar on February 4.

A PACKED auditorium with more than 650 students from southern states of India, reverberated with slogans against communalism and a determined conviction to safeguard the unity of the country The national convention ‘Aman Ka Ailan’ was organised by the Students’ Federation of India in Bangalore on February 17 as part of its nation-wide campaign against communalisation. Presiding over the convention, SFI all India president, VP Sanu said that the BJP has two agendas in our country – economic agenda and cultural agenda. They are hiding their economic agenda with their cultural agenda.

A DELEGATION of AIDWA leaders met the law minister on February 8 and submitted a memorandum regarding the Bill of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2017, bringing to his attention the concerns of various women’s organisations and individuals about it.The law minister gave a patient hearing to the views expressed by the delegation and also explained the government’s stand point.

THRISSUR, the cultural capital of Kerala is all-set to host the state conference of the CPI(M). The delegate session will be attended by 566 delegates (475 elected delegates, 87 state committee members, 4 state committee invitees) and 16 observers representing the Party units across all 14 districts. 31,700 branch conferences, 2,093 local committee conferences, 206 area conferences and 14 district conferences had been held according to schedule.