AP: New State Party Office in Vijayawada

THE new office building of the CPI(M) Andhra Pradesh state committee was inaugurated in Vijayawada on February 13. On the occasion, Party Polit Bureau member M A Baby said the new office would serve as a centre for building mass movements and public agitations and protests. It would be an active platform for democratic and progressive movements.Baby said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was guided by the fascist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and that the central government was hatching a plot to usurp the powers of states.

CPI(M) Writes to EC on Home Minister’s Secret Meeting with Tripura Officials

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×CPI(M) Tripura state secretary, Jitendra Choudhury has written a letter to the chief election commissioner (CEC), Election Commission of India on February 14, regarding the issue of union home minister directly trying to influence the conduct of Tripura assembly elections.Enclosing a news-cutting of ‘Syandan Patrika’ dated February 14, 2023 with the caption “Rater Andhakare Officerder Sathe Shah’r Gopan Sabha

Karnataka Elections: Difficult Road for BJP

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE assembly elections in Karnataka are due this May. The schedule for elections is about to be announced and informally it is known that the elections will be held in the second week of May. Election process would be set in motion in March and the model code of conduct would set in by April beginning. Karnataka assembly election has attracted national attention, this being the only state in southern India ruled by the B

Govt Blind to Plight of Rural Labour Even as Real Wages Fall

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×As many as 14 crore agri-labourers make up the biggest economic class in India – and the poorestIN the recently presented Economic Survey for 2022-23, tucked away in the verbiage and data, there is a nugget of information that should shock the conscience of all Indians, whether ruling BJP supporters or not.

Finance Minister’s Misleading Statement

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×FINANCE Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made a misleading statement the other day that is not expected from a responsible member of the union cabinet. Talking about the resource transfer to the states in the recent budget, she said that the magnitude of transfer had been raised “sharply” (The Hindu February 11).

Tripura Assembly Elections: CPI(M) Delegation Meets ECI

A THREE-member delegation consisting of CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Polit Bureau Member Nilotpal Basu and Central Secretariat Member Muralidharan met the full Election Commission on February 13, 2023.The delegation apprised the Election Commission of the apprehension of violence among large section of the voters in Tripura. Such fears also arise from the fact that a large number of motorcycles have been imported into Tripura recently.

Coordination Committee of Domestic Workers Demands Prosecution of the Employers and the Agency

THE All India Coordination Committee of Domestic Workers (AICCDW), in a statement issued on February 11, has called upon the police to take the strictest of action against the employer couple who continuously subjected their young domestic worker to inhuman torture and abuse at their residence in Gurgaon. It also called upon the labour department to investigate and take action against the agency through whom the worker was placed in this household.

Why Do We Have a Balloon Hysteria in the US?

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE newsfeeds from the US seem to be completely insane. First, an F22 Raptor, the most expensive US military aircraft, is used to shoot down a Chinese balloon over the Atlantic ocean. Three more "unidentified flying objects" – definitely not balloons are shot down in three days, two over the US and one over Canada.

AIKS Calls upon People of Tripura to Defeat BJP

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AIAWU All India Conference Begins in Howrah

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE 10th all India conference of the All India Agricultural Workers Union (AIAWU) began on February 15, at Sarat Sadan, Jyoti Basu Nagar (Howrah) in West Bengal. Amidst slogans of ‘Inquilab Zindabad’, AIAWU president A Vijayaraghavan hoisted the union’s flag.

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