India-US Deal for Predator Drones

EARLY this month, it was announced that India was on the verge of signing a deal with the US for acquisition of 30 high-end armed predator drones, 10 each for the army, air force and navy, at a total cost of around $3 billion (Rs 24,000 crore).

Who’s Winning and Losing the Economic War Over Ukraine?

With the Ukraine war now reaching its one-year mark on February 24, the Russians have not achieved a military victory but neither has the West achieved its goals on the economic front. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and its European allies vowed to impose crippling sanctions that would bring Russia to its knees and force it to withdraw.Western sanctions would erect a new Iron Curtain, hundreds of miles to the east of the old one, separating an isolated, defeated, bankrupt Russia from a reunited, triumphant and prosperous West.

All India Conference of AIAWU Calls for Intensifying Struggles

THE 10th all India conference of AIAWU concluded successfully at Howrah in West Bengal with the slogan “reach out to people, build class unity and struggle for victory”. The conference elected a general council with 155 members. The general council in its first meeting elected A Vijayaraghavan as president and B Venkat as general secretary of the union.

Murder by State-Sponsored Vigilantes

THE incidents of February 16 that began near Peruka on the border between Rajasthan and Haryana and ended in the Nuh area in Bhiwani district of Haryana, are notable not only for the barbarity and cruel violence meted out to two Muslims, Junaid and Nasir but also for what they reveal about the collusion between the Haryana police and cow vigilantes and the complete impunity with which the latter are allowed to perpetrate crimes in the name of ‘gau seva’ (cow protection).The details are well-known.

Tripura Solidarity

The Delhi state committee of CPI (M) staged a sit-in at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, demanding free and fair elections in Tripura. Among those who addressed the protest meeting were Prakash Karat, Polit Bureau Member of the CPI(M) and other leaders of the Delhi state committee

TN: Women Health Volunteers Demand Minimum Wages

The COVID pandemic has exposed the frailties of institutional based care delivery as access to drugs, dialysis facilities, palliative care, geriatric services etc were compromised during the lockdown resulting in increased morbidity due to non-COVID reasons.

The Week in Parliament

THE budget session of parliament began on January 31 with an address of President Droupadi Murmu to a joint sitting of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. On February 1, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the union budget for 2023-24. Thereafter, both the houses began the debate on the motion of thanks on the president’s address. The treasury benches praised the welfare schemes of the government while the opposition raised the Adani issue and pressed for a joint parliamentary committee probe into it.

Telangana: Struggle for Houses and House Sites Intensifies

THE struggle for houses and house sites for the poor is expanding and intensifying in Telangana since it began nine months ago in Jakkaloddi of Warangal Municipal Corporation. The struggle has spread to 23 districts now under the leadership of the Telangana Platform of Mass Organisations for Struggle. It is further expanding to some more districts. As many as 28,000 poor families have built huts in 47 centres on government lands, surplus lands and lands of outdated irrigation water tanks.

Journalists Bodies Slam BBC Office IT ‘Searches’ As Ominous

THE National Alliance of Journalists (NAJ) and the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) joins the Editors’ Guild of India in expressing concern at the ‘searches’ /’surveys’, conducted by the IT department on BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai on February 14, as ‘ominous’.They are of the firm opinion, that indeed a new era of undeclared press censorship and curbs on independent journalism is spreading to curb all forms of independent thinking aimed to numb all forms of dissent.

BBC: Intimidating Media

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 14THE Communist Party of India (Marxist) condemns the searches conducted by the Income Tax department of the BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai. This is a blatant attempt to intimidate and harass the television channel for having telecast the documentary, 'The Modi Question’.It is a standard tactic of the Modi government to intimidate the Indian media through raids conducted by the Income Tax department and other agencies. This has now been extended to a foreign media enterprise operating in

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