IN Kerala, there are no ‘migrant workers’ in the conventional sense; they are instead known as ’guest workers’. This framing itself reflects how the state perceives them. Nearly 35 lakh such workers are employed across Kerala, making the state their preferred destination. On the one hand, relatively high wages, steady demand for labour and safer working conditions attract them; on the other hand, unemployment, low wages and infrastructural deficits in their home states push them outward.

ALL India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) strongly protests against the inhuman and brutal lynching of Aasif Babu Multani alias Sheru Susadiya who died on September 20, 2025, at Sawai Man Singh Medical College, Jaipur. He was lynched by a gang of cow vigilante criminals in the early hours of September 16, when he was transporting cattle purchased from Lambia Raila cattle market near Bhilwara in Rajasthan to his village in Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh.According to Superintendent of Police Bhilwara, Dharmendra Singh, five people have been arrested and an FIR registered.

THE most recent revelations about Microsoft’s deep ties with Israel’s war machine have once again laid bare the central role of U.S. Big Tech in enabling the genocide in Gaza.

THE Swiss multinational Novartis and the Indian Patent Office are in the news again, as is Section 3(d) of India's Patent Act. Under the 3(d) provision, the Patent Office struck down the Novartis patent on Vymada, a heart failure drug, for lacking either novelty or an inventive step. Vymada, internationally marketed as Entresto, is a combination of two drugs: sacubitril and valsartan, and Novartis was claiming that by mixing the two, it created a "supramolecular complex", a claim rejected by the Indian Patent Office.

MODI's recent visit to Bihar has further proved his loyalty to building the empire of Adani by sacrificing the interest of the common man and inviting ecological disaster. The transferring of more than a thousand acres of land on one rupee lease, is one of the greatest tragedies that awaits the people of Bhagalpur. Adani has been offered this fertile land where 10 lakhs of green mango trees stand, to build a mega coal based power plant, as a gift to the people of Bihar on the eve of assembly election.