Enable GingerCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on September 15THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) expresses grief at the passing away of Comrade Kanai Banerjee, veteran trade union leader and former member of the Central Committee of the Party.Kanai Banerjee joined the freedom movement and later the Communist Party in his student days.   He became a railway employee and made a lifelong contribution to the development of the railway trade union movement.  He became a central office-bearer of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions and made important contri

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×LET’S begin with a truism: the Russian invasion of Ukraine will be ended either by defeat of one side or by a diplomatic settlement. That much at least should be beyond debate. A defeat is simply not on the cards, since the west will not allow Ukraine to be totally defeated, and Russia – a major nuclear power – cannot be defeated without the prospect of the introduction of nuclear weapons into the conflict.

THE CBI and the ED are covering up crimes instead of arresting the main culprits. It has been 10 years since the Saradha chit fund scam happened. Eight years have passed since the Narada scam. Still the culprits have not been prosecuted. In other cases too, dilly-dallying is going on. Even the court is being forced to take this dismal failure seriously. To protest against this, the CPI(M) West Bengal state committee has decided to organise a massive march to the CBI office located at the CGO Complex in Salt Lake on October 5.

THE Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front (TNUEF) organised a special convention on September 3 in Chennai, on “Issues of social discrimination and violations of reservation norms in central universities and IITs." Addressing the convention, Subhashini Ali, vice president of Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch (DSMM) noted that democratic spaces are shrinking within our academic halls and  emphasized that inequalities persist and expand within our educational institutions.Inaugurating the convention, Sukhdeo Thorat, former chairperson of the University Grants Commission said, ragging was once r

AS the struggle for house sites in Telangana intensifies, so does the oppression by both the police and goondas against the fighting people. In Chennur, a horde of over hundred goondas launched an attack, setting fire to the humble dwellings of poor people.