ACCORDING to a report issued by the secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea on October 24, 2013, a South Korean conservative group has urged the country’s ministry of justice, often considered to be a pliant body, to form a "team of experts to take measures against political parties and organisations violating (the) constitution," and has staged the farce of making a legal examination to facilitate the disbanding of the Unified Progressive Party.

THE SPECIAL Air India plane carrying a six-member delegation headed by President Pranab Mukherjee, to attend the international memorial service for Nelson Mandela on December 10, landed in the midst of heavy rain at the Waterkloof military airbase, Pretoria, South Africa. This was once a notorious military base for the apartheid South African government that mounted its oppressive air attacks against the non-white South African people whom they mercilessly exploited and segregated.

A RUMOUR was spread that a dalit boy teased a caste Hindu girl. Without waiting for anything, more than 100 people barged into the dalit area and torched six houses and damaged more than fifty houses. This is not an odd incident that can be brushed aside as some eve-teasing and reaction case. In Dindigul district, Nilakottai taluk, there are two villages called Nadupatti and Kariyampatti. Dalits live in Nadupatti and the caste Hindus live in Kariyampatti. On November 25, a rumour was spread that a boy from Nadupatti had teased a girl from Kariyampatti.

AGARTALA, the capital of Tripura, witnessed a massive rally on December 3, 2013, organised by Tripura Tapashili Jati Samanway Samiti, as the organisation met the chief minister of the state to hand him over mass signatures for forward transmission to the prime minister. The organisation has been demanding more stringent legislation to prevent atrocities against dalits.

TERMING Narendra Modi as a representative of communal and corporate forces, CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat asserted that the Left parties will fight to thwart the attempt of BJP to come back to power.
Addressing a massive rally in Sahid Minar maidan organised by the Kolkata district Left Front on 06th December, the CPI(M) leader said the convention called by the Left and other regional parties recently in Delhi had decided to stop communal forces at any cost and unify secular and democratic forces.