TCS, the largest Indian company by market capitalisation has recently stated that it would restructure the organisation. This restructuring could potentially lead to the loss of jobs of around 30,000 associates of the world’s third largest employer in the technology sector according to some newspaper reports.Although lay-offs are not uncommon in the IT industry, something of this scale and magnitude is unprecedented in the recent times. What also adds to the woes is the fact that the TCS is otherwise perceived to be a very employee-friendly organisation.

THE 15th National Conference of All India State Government Employees Federation (AISGEF) was held in Chandigarh from December 20 to December 23, 2014. CITU general secretary and MP Tapan Sen inaugurated the conference. As many as 1,226 delegates and observers from 23 states representing 26 affiliated organisations attended the conference. Of them, 212 were women.

LEADERS of Delhi units of seven Left parties- Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)- Liberation, All India Forward Bloc, Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist), Revolutionary Socialist Party and Socialist Party-India held a meeting on January 13 and decided to contest the forthcoming Delhi assembly elections jointly. The following is the statement that they issued:

IN the run-up to the 21st Party Congress, a seminar was organised on “50 years of CPI(M)- Future of India”, on January 11, in Visakhapatnam.
Speaking at the seminar, Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member emphasized that Socialism is only alternative for the future of the country. The Left parties may have lost in the 2014 elections. But they alone offer a credible alternative. He said the government is passing ordinances where there is no justification for these ordinances. It is an ordinance raj and not a democratic rule, he said.

The Indian History Congress held its 75th (Platinum Jubilee) session on December 28-30, 2014 at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Over 1,500 delegates from all parts of India attended the session, and, as per the printed list of papers, 930 papers were submitted for presentation at its six major sections.                The session was inaugurated on  December 28 by Hamid Ansari, vice president of India, who, by reference to major perceptions of historiography as a craft, enjoined Indian historians to maintain both rigour and objectivity in their use of historical evidence.