Writing the Human Genome

A BOLD new project has been recently announced by a strong group of UK universities supported by the Wellcome Trust, which has more than £1 billion in funds. Its objective is to synthesise the human genome, or in other words, to write what is called the code of life. With an initial investment of £10 million, the Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) aims to create the means to construct human chromosomes – and eventually entire genomes – from the ground up.

Opening the Door to Foreign Ownership of Banks?

THE Reserve Bank of India has a limit of 15 per cent on ownership by non-residents of the equity of an Indian bank, a limit that is augmentable on a case-to-case basis but remains on the statute books to this date. And yet in 2018, the Mauritius-based Holding Company of the Canadian company Fairfax was allowed to purchase 51 per cent of the equity of the Catholic Syrian Bank of Kerala.

Strengthening the Socialist Cause: A True Tribute to Com Yechury

IT has been a year since Comrade Sitaram Yechury left us. But even today, we have not fully emerged from the deep void his departure created. His absence continues to echo in the movement, reminding us of the clarity, commitment, and revolutionary zeal he embodied.Born into an upper-caste, privileged family, Comrade Yechury made a conscious and unwavering choice – to stand with the oppressed, the exploited, the silenced, and the working people of India. His life was an affirmation of the Marxist understanding that class and caste oppression are interlinked and must be fought together.

On the Situation in Nepal

IF your house is not clean, then the ants will come through the door and draw in the other, more dangerous animals.The crisis in Nepal escalated in early September, bringing down the centre-right government of Prime Minister K P Oli. The immediate spur was the regulation and banning of social media on September 4. Protests over this action was met by police firing, which resulted in the killing of 19 protestors.

Growth Estimates with Incongruent Trends

THE first quarter year-on-year estimates of GDP for the current FY 2025-26 turns out to be higher than the last year’s quarter one figures. But these are estimates and hence need to be dissected and seen in relation to other official estimates provided by the government. At the outset a 7.8 per cent growth rate in the first quarter of 2025-26 is higher than all the four quarterly year-on-year growth estimates of the previous year. This is important particularly when lot of uncertainty emerges in the global trade relations.

National Convention of Workers, Peasants And Agricultural Workers

A National Convention of workers, peasants and agricultural workers was jointly held on September 16, by CITU, AIKS and AIAWU at HKS Surjeet Bhavan, New Delhi, to strengthen the worker-peasant unity to fight the corporate-communal nexus.

Prime Minister's Manipur Visit: Empty Rhetoric, Zero Empathy

THE prime minister recently made an inordinately delayed visit to Manipur after 28 months – 864 days to be precise – of internecine ethnic violence that was presided over by the then BJP-led government in the state under chief minister Biren Singh. The visit itself was a desperate move to try and retrieve lost political ground in the state.

Central Committee Communique

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met from 13-15 September 2025 at HKS Surjeet Bhavan, New Delhi and issued the following communiqué on September 16, 2025THE economic policies of the BJP-led union government continue to push the country into crisis. People are suffering from rising prices, stagnant wages, and widening inequalities.

Bihar: Fight for Democracy Intensifies

THE grand culmination of the successful Voter Adhikar Yatra in Patna, attended by most opposition leaders of the INDIA Alliance, gave a significant boost to the ongoing movement to protect the democratic and secular character of the Indian republic that is under constant threat from the RSS-backed Modi regime.

Assam: Land Grabbing: The Corporate-BJP Nexus

WHILE the tribal belts and blocks were envisaged by the government of Assam immediately after independence as an effective mechanism to protect land – especially for various tribal communities of the Brahmaputra Valley – the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution was framed for the administration of the hill tribes of erstwhile Assam.

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