A non-RSS face of BJP ruling Bihar is proving himself more loyal to the RSS mandated politics to run Bihar than the true blue Shakha trained RSS pracharak can be. Just after being declared as the Chief Minister of Bihar, Mr Samrat Chowdhary started copying the bulldozer style of governance of Yogi ji next door.
A MASSIVE wave of public resistance surged through Madurai as thousands of people gathered at the Palanganatham roundabout on July 3 for a historic state-level special conference organised by the Tamilnadu Minority People’s Welfare Forum.
The CPI(M) in Maharashtra held a three-day state camp for social justice and against communalism on July 3-5, 2026 at Kavthemahankal in Sangli district of western Maharashtra. It was attended by 252 comrades from 24 districts, 31 of them women. A 90-page booklet of the notes of this camp was given to all participants. After the flag hoisting by veteran leader Narasayya Adam and floral tributes to martyrs, CPI(M) state committee member Umesh Deshmukh welcomed all the participants.
INDIA has had for some time one of the largest public distribution systems in the world for foodgrains. Its core is the Antyodyay Anna Yojana (AAY) which covers around 75 percent of the rural population and 50 percent of the urban population, and provides 35 kilogrammes of foodgrains per month to each beneficiary household at subsidised prices.
THE fast of the activist educationist Sonam Wangchuk has completed more than two weeks. Without accountability and sensitivity of the government, his life faces a serious risk. There is growing support and solidarity from various student groups and the broad democratic and secular sections of the society. The fast has achieved the objective of bringing to focus, the dire state of Indian education. Resignation of the Education Minister is naturally the focal demand.
John Brittas MP has written to the Chief Election Commissioner challenging the legality of the Election Commission's introduction of a mandatory declaration in the online Form 6 through the ECINET portal.
The scoreline read: Argentina 3 – Egypt 2. But who won? For seventy-eight glorious minutes, Egypt had done the unthinkable. They led by two goals to zero against the reigning world champions, and it seemed as if it was going to be curtains for the greatest footballer of our time, Lionel Messi.
But the score, even in those seventy-eight minutes, should have been 3–0. Egypt’s second goal was disallowed for an alleged foul at the other end of the ground, half a minute previously.
IN the recently held assembly elections, the Left Democratic Front’s defeat in Kerala, the BJP coming to power in West Bengal with an absolute majority, and the BJP alliance winning again in Assam and Puducherry reveal a dangerous trend. It is essential to understand the factors behind these outcomes and confront this danger.
THE brutal rape and murder of an 11-year-old schoolgirl in Baruipur, South 24 Parganas, in the first week of July, has exposed a harrowing breakdown of law and order and the deeply entrenched criminalisation of politics in West Bengal. On a Saturday afternoon, the Class VI student stepped out to buy a birthday gift for her friend. She never returned.