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WB:Thousand Days of Deprivation and the Fight for Justice

ON December 9, 2023, the dharna movement at the foot of the Gandhi statue in Esplanade, Kolkata marked its 1000th day. This protest is held by the deserving candidates who had successfully cleared the West Bengal State Level Selection Test (SLST) for secondary and higher secondary school teaching positions. Nearly three years have transpired since the inception of this movement.Throughout these past three years, the lives of these aspiring teachers have been marked by hardship and deprivation.

The Week in Parliament

THE winter session of parliament began on December 4 and is scheduled to conclude on December 22 after 15 sittings.The Rajya Sabha passed the Post Office Bill, 2023, to replace the Indian Post Office Act of 1898, on the first day of the session. CPI(M) member A A Rahim raised specific objections to the bill. His first point was that this bill was against the Constitution and breached the fundamental rights provided by the Constitution. Secondly, this bill was against the federal principles. Thirdly, through this bill, the government is giving up the liabilities invested upon it.

No-State Solution Becomes More and More Real as Israel’s Permanent Nakba Continues

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×IN 1948, the Lebanese historian Constantin Zurayak used the Arabic word Nakba (catastrophe) to refer to the forced removal of Palestinians from their lands and homes by the newly formed Israeli state (in his August 1948 book, Ma’na al-Nakba or The Meaning of the Nakba).

Light at the End of Tunnel: Rescuers of Silkyara Felicitated in Delhi

THE joint trade unions platform in Delhi felicitated the 12 rat hole miners who valiantly rescued 41 construction workers from the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand. The meeting started by honouring the 12 workers with a souvenir and a citation from the joint trade unions. In a memorandum to the labour ministry of the Delhi government, the trade unions demanded that all 12 of them be given Rs 10 lakhs given their hazardous working conditions and present livelihood.

A Disturbing Verdict

Enable GingerCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on December 11THE verdict of the Supreme Court dismissing the challenges to the abrogation of Article 370 and dissolution of the state of Jammu and Kashmir is disturbing and has serious consequences for the federal structure of our constitution which is one of its fundamental features.The verdict says that J&K does not retain any element of sovereignty after the Instrument of Accession was signed and hence rules that the constitution of J&K is redundant.

COP28: Small Gains, Big Losses

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×ALL COPs are important and deal with issues vital for the world. Yet some COPs stand out for their special significance, milestones, major decisions to be taken and of course for their outcomes. For instance COP3 in 1997 launched the Kyoto Protocol (KP) which shaped the architecture for the emissions control regime for almost two decades.

Polit Bureau Communique

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met in New Delhi on December 9, 2023.

Neo-Liberal Falsehoods

NEO-LIBERALISM propagates a set of outright falsehoods to present itself in a favourable light compared to the preceding dirigiste regime in India. The basic theme is to suggest that under neo-liberalism there has been such an acceleration of the growth rate of Gross Domestic Product that the people as a whole have become much better off, and vast masses of them have been lifted out of poverty (one particular enthusiast has even claimed that poverty now afflicts only 2 per cent of the population).

Glossing Over Dismal Performances through Futuristic Claims

THE euphoria on India becoming the third largest economy by 2030 or a 5 trillion-dollar economy soon backed by estimates by rating agencies assuming 7 per cent growth rate in 2026-27 and further, has been showcased as one of the great achievements of the current regime that seem to have exalted India’s position in the global scenario. To begin with some initial facts, India’s GDP in current prices is 3.39 trillion US dollars and in constant 2015 US dollar prices it is 2.95 trillion US dollars.

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