JUST weeks after the terror strike in Pathankot, Pakistan was hit by an even more deadly attack. Before that, in the same fortnight, there were major terror attacks in Istanbul, Jakarta and Ouagadougou. Terrorists, belonging to a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, attacked the Bacha Khan University campus in Charsadda near the city of Peshawar in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. The university is named after Abdul Ghaffar Khan, who was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi.

A two member delegation of the CPI(M) consisting of general secretary Sitaram Yechury and central secretariat member Nilotpal Basu met the chief election commissioner on March 2,  to draw attention of the commission to some serious concerns with regard to the forthcoming elections to the West Bengal legislative assembly.

Rich in Rhetoric; Poor in Substance, says CITU Union Budget 2016–17 presented by the union finance minister Arun Jaitley is nothing but a grand exercise in rhetoric, totally devoid of anything substantial that provides relief to the common people and workers. The finance minister sought to camouflage his government’s drive to provide further benefits to the corporate sector by resorting to high sounding words.

THE Left parties, CPI(M) and CPI, have jointly embarked on a 14 day-long ‘Rayalaseema Bus Yatra’ to focus on the issues of backward region and with a demand that a comprehensive package of Rs1,000 crore be announced for the development of Rayalaseema districts.The ‘Rayalaseema Bus Yatra’ was formally flagged off from Tirupati on February 20 by Prakash Karat, Polit Bureau member of the CPI(M) and CPI National Secretariat member K Narayana .The yatra continues  up to March 5, during which period the Left party leaders plan to visit the nook and corner of the region.Addressing a public meeting

THE union budget for the year 2016-17 presented to parliament by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on February 29, has been termed “pro-poor” and “pro-farmer” by the media. Nothing else could be further from the truth.