AS a part of the nationwide protest against the disrespectful and derogatory remarks on Dr B R Ambedkar by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, meetings and rallies were organised by the Left parties in Tripura on December 30, 2024. The programme was organised jointly by the CPI(M), CPI, AIFB, RSP and CPI(ML). Besides the capital city of Agartala, rallies were organised at places like Udaipur, Belonia, Khowai, Kamalpur, Amarpur, Santir Bazar, Ambassa, Sabroom, Longtarai Valley and Gandachhera.

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on January 8THE Draft University Grants Commission Regulations 2025 contains a provision, which is a direct assault on the rights of states on the question of selecting vice chancellors in state-run universities.  The guideline gives the governor-cum-chancellor the power to appoint the three-member selection committee in which the chancellor’s nominee will also be the chairperson.  This is happening in the background of governors acting arbitrarily in appointing vice chancellors in some opposition-ruled states.

‘Bol Majure Halla BolHalla Bol bhai, halla bol…’ LIKE every year, this song of workers’ struggle echoed across Jhandapur’s Dr Ambedkar Park on the chilly winter morning of January 1, 2025. A large number of people – locals, residents of Sahibabad Site IV – gathered in the park to remember and salute Comrade Safdar Hashmi and Rambahadur on the occasion of the 36th Safdar Hashmi Shahadat Divas.

THE year 2025 has begun on an ominous note, with the shocking murder of a journalist.The National Alliance of Journalists (NAJ), the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), the Andhra Pradesh Working Journalists Federation(APWJF) and the Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ Delhi unit)  send out their first press release of the year on January 4, with grief and shock at the killing of Bastar journalist Mukesh Chandrakar on January 1, 2025.

THE National Statistical Office has recently released the fact sheet of Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2023-24. It is the second survey report of the annual series that begun in 2022-23 after a long gap since the 68th Round Consumption Expenditure Survey released by the government in 2011-12. The government seems to be comfortable to release this report this time as the Monthly Per Capita Consumption Expenditure (MPCE) has increased from Rs 3,773 in 2022-23 to Rs 4,122 in 2023-24 in rural India and from Rs 6,459 to Rs 6,996 in urban India respectively.