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TAMIL NADU: CPI(M) Plans for a Padayatra “My land – My Right”

SINCE May 22 which has become a black day for the people of Tamil Nadu, following  the brutal killing of 13 innocent protestors against the “all powerful” Sterlite Industries, a unit of Vedanta Group, the state police has started defending its ‘stooge behaviour’ across the state. It has unleashed a reign of terror among the people of Tuticorin through a series of raids and arrests upon the people, completely disregarding the rule of law along the way.When the CPI(M) had planned to organise a protest meeting against the police massacre, permission was denied to organise it.

National Protest by Left Parties on July 24: Murder of Democracy in West Bengal and Tripura

AN open daylight murder of democracy is taking place in the states of West Bengal and Tripura. Human rights and political freedom have come under severe strain. This is increasingly being seen all across the country as, for example, in the brutal suppression of dalit protests as well as use of draconian laws against human rights activists.

City’s Vision for the Future: Sustainable, Inclusive, Resilient and Safe

THE attention of global forces representing cities is keener to know how the planet earth will be shaped for the future. The COP-21 climate change talks had set a target of keeping the rise in global temperature to less than 2 degrees centigrade. And for that, all the nations will have to play a major role in reducing their carbon footprint.Historically, the developed capitalist world has taken the largest carbon space by massive production and changing the lifestyles of its people.

For All Workers Including Scheme Workers: Minimum Wage of Not Less Than Rs 18000

BECAUSE of the ever rising prices, the family budgets of workers across the country, in all sectors, are being squeezed. Whatever meagre increases they achieve through their struggles are offset by the rising prices. In effect, this means that for the same money, workers are able to buy less and less amounts of the commodities.The situation has become even more difficult for the lakhs of contract and casual workers who are not even paid the statutory minimum wages. Their wages are not even linked to the consumer price index (CPI).

Meanwhile in Tripura

Irregularities in Medical Seat AllotmentA MAJOR irregularity surfaced in the seat allotment in the MBBS courses of the two medical colleges. At least nine students who had not fulfilled the state domicile criteria were allotted seats though their name was not present in the state domicile list prepared by CBSE Neet. After the issue came to surface, the director of medical education was forced to declare that these nine were not eligible to get the letter of nomination for admission on July 7.

MAHARASHTRA: Huge Mobilisations Planned for Aug 9 Jail Bharo Stir & Sept 5 Mazdoor Kisan Sangharsh Rally

THE AIKS and CITU in Maharashtra will mobilise over one lakh peasants and workers in the nationwide jail bharo struggle on August 9; over 3,000 women in the AIDWA central rally in Delhi on September 4 and over 10,000 people in the Mazdoor Kisan Sangharsh Rally organised jointly by the CITU-AIKS-AIAWU in Delhi on September 5.

KERALA: Prime Accused Arrested in Abhimanyu Murder Case

THE prime accused in Abhimanyu murder case was arrested on July 18, by the Kerala police. Maharaja’s college unit president of Campus Front of India and third year BA Arabic history student Muhammad was arrested from Kerala-Karnataka border. Four others, who helped Muhammad to get shelter somewhere in Goa have also been arrested.The police said that the conspiracy to kill leaders of SFI including Abhimanyu in Eranakulam Maharaja's college was hatched and the gruesome murder was executed by Muhammad. He had asked other accomplices to reach the college on the intervening night of June 30.

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