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Finalise NRC Before Revising Assam Voters’ List: CPI(M)

THE Election Commission of India has started the process for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls across the country, starting with Bihar. The Assam state committee of CPI(M), in a statement issued on August 25, 2025, said that under present conditions, such hurried revision – on the Bihar model – will not produce an accurate voters’ list. On the contrary, many genuine citizens risk exclusion.In Bihar, due to the Commission’s biased and partisan role, around 65 lakh names were arbitrarily deleted from the draft list of approximately 8 crore voters.

Voices of Distress and Resistance: AIDWA’s Public Hearing on Women and MFI Loot

ON August 23-24, 2025, more than 500 women from across India gathered at Surjeet Bhawan in New Delhi to tell their stories of debt, despair, and defiance. The ‘National Public Hearing on Women’s Rising Indebtedness and Micro Finance Institutions (MFI) Loot’, organised by the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), became a platform where the silent burden of loans, harassment by MFIs, and the failure of public banks erupted into a collective cry for justice. It was not just another programme.

AP: CPI(M) Leaders Hear Stories of Misery from Polavaram Displaced

THE Polavaram National Project, touted as a “lifeline” for Andhra Pradesh, has over the years led to the large-scale displacement of thousands of families across the Godavari basin. While successive governments have promised rehabilitation, the displaced continue to live in misery –many in leaking houses, unfinished colonies, or even makeshift huts.

All-Out Authoritarianism

ON August 20, 2025, the Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill, 2025, was introduced in the Lok Sabha. Similar amendments have been proposed to the laws that govern the Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Puducherry as well. Following their introduction, the bills were referred to a Joint Parliamentary Committee for scrutiny.Being constitution amendment bills, they would require a two-thirds majority in both houses of the Parliament for their passage. However, it is very clear that the BJP nor the NDA have the required numbers at present.

Modi’s So-Called Diwali “Gift”

NARENDRA Modi’s Independence Day speech was expectedly full of blatant untruths. He talked for instance of the great strides that India had made in the manufacturing sector during the years of BJP rule, while the reality is a drastic fall over the last ten years in the share of the manufacturing sector in GDP from 17.5 per cent to 12.6 per cent, a level that had last been crossed in 1960.

TN: Fidel Castro Centenary Observed with Solidarity Pledge to Cuba

THE National Committee for Solidarity with Cuba (NCSC) gave a call in January 2025 for a grand celebration of the centenary of Fidel Castro. Since then, preliminary preparations have been underway in Tamil Nadu. It was decided to collect a solidarity fund to be sent to Cuba. The economic blockade and intimidatory tactics of US imperialism – extended even to countries maintaining relations with Cuba – have been further exacerbated by the whimsical trade and tariff wars initiated under the Trump regime.

STFI Conference Resolves to Defend Public Education

THE School Teachers’ Federation of India (STFI) has decided to launch a sustained movement in defence of public education. On the occasion of the 9th All India Conference of the Federation, held in Kolkata from August 8-10, a public rally was organised on the last day attended by thousands of teachers. Newly elected president, C N Bharti and general secretary Ravi Chava reported the decisions taken during the three-day conference.As part of the programme of action, lakhs of teachers will be mobilised during a mass contact campaign from September 1 to November 25, 2025.

Storm over Ethanol Blended Petrol

THE mainstream and online media, and social media in particular, have been abuzz with controversy and comments from the vehicle-owning or driving public, experts and different sectional interest groups over the government’s roll out in Delhi and other cities of mandatory supply of petrol blended with 20 per cent ethanol, that is EBP20 or E20, soon to be extended to the whole country.

Storm over Ethanol Blended Petrol

THE mainstream and online media, and social media in particular, have been abuzz with controversy and comments from the vehicle-owning or driving public, experts and different sectional interest groups over the government’s roll out in Delhi and other cities of mandatory supply of petrol blended with 20 per cent ethanol, that is EBP20 or E20, soon to be extended to the whole country.

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