Withdraw RBI Guidelines on Microfinance Loans

THE Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has come out with a master direction on microfinance loans, removing the prevailing ceiling on interest rate. This will come into effect from April 1, 2022.

Militant Struggles in the Coming Days

CPI(M) WEST Bengal state 26th conference has called upon the Party workers to be ready for militant struggles in the coming days. The Party will forge ahead with indomitable courage and highest sacrifice, deepening the link with the working people and strengthening the independent strength of the Party.The state conference was held on March 15-17, at Kolkata’s Promode Dasgupta Bhavan (Comrade Nirupam Sen Nagar, Comrade Shyamal Chakraborty Manch).

Water a Right not just a Need

Watersheds come in families; nested levels of intimacy. On the grandest scale, the hydrologic web is like all humanity ----- Serbs, Russians, Koyukon Indians, Amish, the billion lives in the People’s Republic of China-----its broadly troubled, but it’s hard to know how to help. As you work upstream toward home, you’re more closely related. The big river is like your nation, a little out of hand. The lake is your cousin. The creek is your sister. The pond is her child.

The Week in Parliament

THE second part of the budget session of parliament started from March 14. In Rajya Sabha, Jharna Das Baidya took part in the discussion on the development of north eastern region. Though several rural development programmes are underway in the northeast, there are still major challenges and gaps in the poverty and livelihood sector. The project will have three-pronged approach to livelihood strengthening for achieving sustainable development. These are: social empowerment, economic empowerment and partnership and linkages.

The Irony of Sanctions against Russia

THE juggling which US imperialism has to do to maintain its hegemony becomes more bizarre by the day. First, it kept needling Russia (“provoking the bear”) “on behalf of the western alliance” by expanding NATO to its very borders, knowing full well that Ukraine’s joining NATO would be totally unacceptable to Russia.

Appeal of the First Displaced from the Kashmir Valley

Below we reproduce the verbatim address of Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami whilst addressing a press conference in Srinagar. He was referring to the venom being spread in the guise of a film-‘Kashmir Files’, released recently. Some of the words he used are in Urdu which continues to remain in the text, however with an English translation.

APPEAL of the first Kashmiri who was displaced: Now stop it; everyone who died was a Kashmiri, stop dividing people’s tears and cashing on their tragedies.

Comrade Mallu Swarajyam: A Life of Struggles

A RED star rose to the sky in the evening on March 19, leaving behind a legacy of revolution, comradeship and fearlessness. Communist stalwart and the legendary leader of the Telangana Peasants’ Armed Struggle, Comrade Mallu Swarajyam breathed her last at the age of 91 in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. She drew courage from her mother and jumped into the battlefield of the Telangana Peasants’ Armed Struggle along with her brother, when she was only 11-years old.

Karnataka: Peoples Alternative Budget Session Held

A THREE-DAY (March 21-24) ‘Peoples Alternative Budget Session’ was held at Freedom Park, Bangalore. It was organised by Samyukta Horata Karnataka – a coordination committee of peasants, workers, dalits, students, youth, and mahila organisations. Ruling party governments do not have any pro-people orientation. No discussion or debate takes place on any vital issue concerning people in the budget session of Karnataka legislature.

Mallu Swarajyam

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on March 20

THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) expresses its deep grief at the passing away of Comrade Mallu Swarajyam, veteran leader of the Party and legendary fighter of the Telangana People’s Armed Struggle. She was 91.

NPRD Condemns Arbitrary Detention of Disabled Persons in TN

THE National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD), in a statement issued on March 22, has strongly condemned the arbitrary detention of hundreds of disabled persons while they were proceeding to Chennai from different parts of Tamilnadu to participate in a demonstration before the state secretariat demanding an enhancement in the amount of disability “pension” at the call of the NPRD affiliate, the Tamilnadu Association for the Rights of all types of Differently Abled and Caregivers (TARATDAC).Reports of police forcibly de-boarding disabled passengers holding valid tickets from tr

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