IT’s been five years. The devastating images of migrant workers walking back to their villages to escape the COVID-19 crisis have been buried under the apathetic rhetoric of “Viksit Bharat.” The haunting images of homebound workers struggling to find food, transportation, shelter, medicine, oxygen cylinders, hospital beds, and even the dignity of a proper burial or cremation have slowly disappeared amid the ever-changing content in mainstream broadcast and social media.

SHOCKING as it may sound, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) initiated in Bihar by the Election Commission of India (ECI), when seen contextually, would actually unravel graver implications which have now come out in the open. When the process was initiated on June 25, within a few days it became obvious that the exercise was aimed far beyond the scope of purifying the electoral rolls.Three special features of the exercise stood out. Firstly, the exercise would put the burden of proof on the citizen to prove that he/she is a legitimate voter to appear in the electoral rolls.

Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has condemned the dismissal of S. S.

A DELEGATION of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), led by the General Secretary, M A Baby visited the bereaved family members of Y Puran Kumar, IPS (ADGP, Haryana), who died by suicide. After the visit, M A Baby, wrote a letter to Shri Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, demanding a judicial enquiry into the suicide of Y Puran Kumar, IPS (ADGP, Haryana).

The All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) has condemned the insensitivity of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee towards the sexual violence committed on a medical student in West Bengal. A female student from Odisha studying in a private medical college in Durgapur city was gang-raped on Friday. Instead of accepting the failure of the TMC state government to protect women in West Bengal, the CM tried to shirk her responsibility by holding the victim herself responsible for the brutal gang rape.