IN September 2024, the US secretary of the air force, Frank Kendall told a meeting about China and the Indo-Pacific that ‘China is not a future threat. China is a threat today’. The evidence for this, Kendall said, is that China is building up its operational capacities to prevent the United States from projecting its power into the western Pacific Ocean region.

IN response to a call from the CPI(M) Central Committee, the Hyderabad City Committee organised a seminar on the ‘One Nation, One Election’ policy at Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in Hyderabad on October 22. The seminar was addressed by BV Raghavulu, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member, who warned that this policy could pose a threat to national unity.

WHAT is referred to as “mainstream economics” is a deeply ideological subject, whose objective is not to uncover the truth but to camouflage it. Karl Marx had been profoundly aware of the ideological character that economics can have, and had distinguished between classical political economy and vulgar economy.

MANY people may naively assume that, in the era of climate change, the more modern the technologies, the smaller carbon footprint they will have. We have seen, however, that in one way or another, several technologies have gained currency by cleverly disguising their polluting nature behind apparently greener garb.

BAHRAICH is an extremely poor and backward district in Uttar Pradesh.  It has a very low literacy rate and also a negative sex ratio with only 819 women to 1000 men, despite the fact that the district witnesses a fairly high rate of out-migration.  Muslims make up about 35 per cent of the total population and, in the urban areas, they outnumber Hindus.  Some of them have become fairly prosperous because of their involvement with crafts like jewellery-making, woodwork etc.The district is politically polarised with a large section of Hindus voting for the BJP while the Muslims are, in the mai