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The Week in Parliament

The Winter Session of Parliament commenced on December 1 and will continue until December 19. The Opposition MPs have decided to raise several matters, including concerns linked to the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, equality, income, the Red Fort blast, labour codes, Delhi pollution, foreign policy, etc. On the first day of the session, the Lok Sabha was adjourned twice due to heavy sloganeering by the Opposition over SIR and “vote chori” allegations.

SFI Sweeps Pondicherry University Elections: A Decisive Blow to RSS-BJP's Campus Control

The over-a-decade rule of the BJP-RSS has marked one of the darkest periods for higher education in India, as universities across the country have been systematically stripped of their autonomy, diversity, and democratic ethos. Instead of nurturing critical thinking and scientific temper, the Modi government has pursued an aggressive agenda of saffronisation, recasting academic spaces to reflect the ideological framework of the RSS.

On The Question of ‘Engine of Growth’

Since the past three decades policy makers in India and across the developing world had been grappling with the problem of identifying the appropriate ‘engine of growth’ for future development. A recent report by the NITI Aayog seems to propose a double engine of manufacturing and services. There had been contesting views as to what ought to be the real engine in a country which has a per capita income falling within the low-middle income group although India ranks at the top of this group.

Sanchar Saathi: Cyber Security or Cyber Prison?

AFTER concerted pushback from users, privacy groups and mobile phone manufacturers, the Modi Government has withdrawn its directive to compulsorily install its "modified" Sanchar Saathi app on all mobile phones. The app, initially intended for tracking stolen or lost phones, would have turned the mobile phone into an instrument for tracking the user and monitoring who he or she was talking to, their emails, and whatever was stored on the mobile.

A New Imperial Offensive Against Venezuela

THE United States has opened yet another dangerous chapter in its long history of interventions in Latin America. Under the name “Operation Southern Spear,” Washington has launched a series of lethal strikes in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific, backed by the largest US naval deployment in the region in decades. More than 80 people have already died in these attacks, most of them on small boats that the US claims were connected to drug trafficking. Needless to say, the claims were made without any evidence.

Citizenship Verification: A Bureaucratic Hell A West Bengal Perspective

When the state demands proof of a citizen's existence, the process becomes a bureaucratic hell of paperwork. The cost of this grand endeavour, meant to identify a few 'infiltrators', a fictional enemy, is not merely in crores of rupees — it is written on the coffins of the many who died. The stated objective was to catch infiltrators, but its result was the tragic death of ordinary citizens and election workers. Who is responsible for this? The one and only Election Commission of India.

Himachal Unites for Peace and Harmony

DOZENS of democratic and progressive organizations from Shimla city organized a meeting under the banner of the Himachal for Peace and Harmony Forum at Rotary Town Hall, Shimla, to strengthen peace and communal harmony in the state. During the seminar, the representatives took an oath to protect the country’s communal harmony, secularism, and the Constitution. The forum announced that a state-level convention for peace and harmony will be organized in Shimla on March 25, 2026.

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