Sports Women and the Issue of Sexual Harassment

VERY serious allegations of sexual harassment, corruption and dictatorial functioning that have been made by top Indian wrestlers against the president of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) and member of parliament from BJP, Brij Bhushan, have once again revealed the dirty underbelly of this Indian sport, characterised by a dangerous combination of political nexus and a male domination of positions of power.

Contractionary, Anti-People Budget

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on February 1THE Union Budget 2023-24 comes at a time when the Indian economy slowed down before the pandemic struck, worsened during the two pandemic years and the post pandemic recovery is adversely impacted by the global economic slowdown moving towards a possible recession.

National Convention of Workers

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE National Convention of Workers organised by the joint platform of central trade unions and independent industrial/sector level national federations/ associations representing crores of working people across all sectors, has decide to go for protracted year-long campaign and struggles to take united struggles to a higher level.

Amrit Kaal Budget Turns Venomous for People: CITU

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE union budget presented by the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is nothing but a political jumla. It does not utter a word on the grim economic situation facing the country, though the Economic Survey sought to camouflage it by presenting a rosy picture.The Economic Survey itself predicted a decline in GDP to 6.5 per cent in 2022-23.

Central Committee Communiqué

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met in Kolkata on January 28-29, 2023. It has issued the following statement on January 30ALLEGATIONS AGAINST ADANI GROUPA high-level inquiry is essential on the allegations levelled by Hindenburg Research against the Adani group, monitored on a day-to-day basis by the Supreme Court.

Budget 2023-24: Ignoring the Economy’s Basic Problem

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE most outstanding feature of the Indian economy today is the sluggish increase in real consumption expenditure. Between 2019-20 and 2022-23 for instance the per capita real consumption expenditure has grown by less than 5 per cent which is less than the rate of growth of the gross domestic product. Even the meagre recovery from the depths of the pandemic in short has been investment-led rather than consumption-led.

WB: Trinamool Will Not Confront BJP

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×“WHY is Trinamool silent in parliament when it comes to opposing the BJP?” Party general secretary Sitaram Yechury raised the question at a CPI (M) public rally at Rani Rasmani Road in Kolkata on January 30. He added that Narendra Modi is ruling the country with the aim of fulfilling the unfulfilled dreams of the killers of Gandhi. Their goal is to create a Hindutva state.

WB: Aleida Strikes a Chord in People’s Hearts

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×TO think of Aleida Guevara as just the ‘heir’ to her father’s legacy, would be to underestimate her. In one of his last letters to his young children, Che Guevara advised them to “always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.

Budget Attacks Farmers & Workers with Vengeance: AIKS

THE Union Budget 2023-24 presented by the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is a Budget for the rich, prepared at the behest of the corporate cronies; it is against the interests of the farmers, the poor and toiling masses. It was high on rhetoric and hollow on actual allocations for agriculture and rural development. The BJP government has refused to implement the minimum support prices as per the MS Swaminathan Commission recommendations of C2+50 per cent nor ensured legal guarantee for MSP, leading to increasing distress for farmers. This budget does nothing to mitigate the situation.

Budget: A Fraud on Women says AIDWA

THE All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) sees the Modi government’s last full budget before the general elections of 2024, as an attempt to hoodwink women and working people of the country in order to promote the agenda of big corporate houses. The narrative unleashed by the government in the name of the budget, is designed to perpetrate false hoods and show that all is well, and people are becoming prosperous.

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