CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on October 11, 2025THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) welcomes the implementation of the first phase of the ‘peace deal’, whereby a ceasefire has come into place and which provides for the exchange of prisoners and hostages between Israel and Hamas.We have witnessed Israel’s violation of an earlier ceasefire agreement, and such breaches must not be allowed to recur.

THE game of cricket has changed in the past fortnight or so, and for the worse. The cascading effects of what happened during the Asia Cup in Dubai are here: at the subsequent ICC Women’s World Cup in Sri Lanka, Indian cricket team players refrained from shaking hands or greeting the Pakistan players during their game on October 5. The women just mirrored their male counterparts' act of diluting the sanctity of cricket with jingoist fervour. 

ON October 11 in New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi advised Indian farmers to grow more “export-oriented crops”. This amounted to saying that Indian farmers should move away from growing foodgrains, and the country should import foodgrains instead. This is precisely the advice that institutions like the World Bank, and Indian economists who generally echo its positions, have been giving for some time; and it is what the imperialist countries have been demanding.

People across the country continue to be spellbound and gripped by shock since October 7, the fateful day a senior Haryana IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar ended his life at his Chandigarh residence. He would not have taken this step had the top bureaucracy listened to his complaints pertaining to the unending caste discrimination meted out to him by his seniors.

THE decoupling of the world’s major economies is now gathering pace.