This Week in Parliament

TO this concluding week of parliament session the government came with a number of bills in both houses, keeping in view the forthcoming election. The food security bill, already passed in Lok Sabha, was taken up in Rajya Sabha on September 2.

On September 3 the prime minister made a statement in Rajya Sabha on the investigation of coal block allocations by the CBI. There was a hue and cry in the house on the issue of missing files, with Sitaram Yechury, leader of CPI(M) group in the house, suggesting that the government must procure the files from the CAG and also file an FIR.

Indian Bureaucrats Vote with Their Feet Against India’s Health System

A RECENT notification, dated September 25, 2013, by the ministry of personnel of the government of India is virtually a vote of no-confidence on India’s health system. The notification amends existing laws regarding entitlements available to senior government officials to receive treatment abroad for what are identified as ‘complex’ medical conditions. The amended rules make it easier for such treatment and the government also takes upon itself the responsibility to pay all the medical costs as well as the travel and related costs of the patient and an attendant.

The Executive under Neo-Liberalism

THE pursuit of neo-liberal policies necessarily means bending to the caprices of international finance capital, so that it does not take offence and leave the country’s shores. This in turn necessarily means an attenuation of democracy, for democracy means that policies should be made in accordance with the wishes of the people and not those of international finance capital.

Safeguard Our Secular, Democratic Pluralistic Social Order

THE 16th meeting of the National Integration Council (NIC) was held in the aftermath of the horrendous communal disturbances in Muzaffarnagar and in the backdrop of the continuing tensions in western Uttar Pradesh. The Resolution adopted unanimously, amongst others, resolved “To condemn violence in any form committed to disturb communal harmony and to deal with all those indulging in such violence in a prompt and resolute manner under the law.

Centenary of Ghadar Movement Observed In Vancouver, Canada

Centenary of Ghadar Movement Observed In Vancouver, Canada
Joga Randhawa

Huge Rally Marks 23rd SFI State Conference

Suseendira

CPI(M) to Launch Campaign against Policies

On Muzaffarnagar Riots

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) issued the following statement on September 9, 2013.

Protest against the US Conspiracy to Attack Syria

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Police Crushes the Genitals of Protester

In a most brutal and shocking incident unheard in the history of Kerala, a police team headed by a sub inspector unleashed violent attack on an LDF worker who participated in a peaceful protest against Chief Minister Oommen Chandy. Sub Inspector Vijayadas brutally attacked Jayaprasad, a DYFI activist from Thiruvananthapuram. He purposefully kicked the genitals of Jayaprasad, while other cops held him tight. He collapsed on the spot after the repeated kicking by the police on the groin. He was hospitalised later and his condition is still critical.

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