CONGRESS spokesman and chairman of the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) that is probing the 2G spectrum scam, P C Chacko, has admitted that the Congress is facing an adverse situation in the Lok Sabha election. Addressing a Meet the Press programme in the Eranakulam Press Club recently, Chacko said that the Congress had no scope of victory would have to sit in the opposition benches this time. 

 “THE TRUTH BEHIND THE LARGER CONSPIRACY MUST BE ESTABLISHED”Gujarat Carnage: Magistrate Order Challenged by CJP Below is the full text of the statement issued by Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) on March 18, 2014 regarding the legal developments pertaining to Gujarat 2002 riots cases.SURVIVOR of the 2002 Gujarat carnage and widow of eminent parliamentarian, Zakia Ahsan Jafri, has filed a Criminal Revision Application before the Gujarat High Court challenging the Order of the Magistrate rejecting her Protest Petition seeking to arraign powerful accused Narendra Modi, chief minister of G

THROUGH a statement issued from New Delhi on March 15, 2014, the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has denounced the anti-worker bias of the UPA government which has not yet notified the increase in minimum pension to Rs 1,000 under the EPF pension scheme and enhancement of the ceiling of contribution and coverage which has been unanimously recommended by the Central Board of Trustees (CBT) of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation on February 4, 2014 and sent to the government for immediate action on the same.

THERE has always been a tendency among non-Marxists to ignore the specificity of Marx’s perceptions in the realm of political economy, and to reduce them instead to similar but antecedent ideas that might be found in Adam Smith or David Ricardo. Economist Paul Samuelson expressed this tendency in the most blatant, if deliberately provocative, manner when he referred to Marx as a “minor post-Ricardian”.

THE latest display of imperialism’s aggressiveness in its quest for global hegemony has come following the referendum held in the Black Sea Crimean Peninsula, part of Ukraine, where people overwhelmingly voted to join the Russian Federation. In a referendum, endorsed as free and fair by many an international observer, 85 per cent of the people participated of whom 96.9 per cent voted in favour of Crimea joining the Russian Federation.