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Twelve Years After The Maruti Manesar Violence, Workers Still Restive
By Tanishka Shah More than twelve years after an incident at Maruti Plant in Manesar, which led to the death of an HR manager, the dismissal of over five hundred workers and numerous arrests, on November 7, 2025, Gurugram’s Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court issued a judgment denying reinstatement to a...
Trump’s War On Latin America Must Be Stopped By Global Intervention
By Branko Marcetic NEW YORK: Any hope that Donald Trump would be an “antiwar” president went out the window almost as soon as he won the 2024 election, when he filled his administration with a coterie of warmongers. After a year in which Trump backed Israel’s war with Iran,...
Khaleda Zia’s Death Is Helping BNP In February 12 Polls Through Sympathy Wave
By Nitya Chakraborty In the neighbouring Bangladesh, the political developments take unpredictable course many times, but the latest alliance between the NCP, the party of the students body which led the July Revolution and the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami, has shocked the progressive forces who supported the uprising that led to...
USA Invades Venezuela, Bombs Facilities Defying All International Norms
By Satyaki Chakraborty In a repeat of George Bush’s Iraq invasion in 2003 on the basis of fake allegations, Donald Trump ordered invasion of Venezuela on early morning of January 3 beginning the New Year 2026 with the implementation of his National security strategy announced last month. Trump claimed...
Law By Itself Won’t Do; It’s The Application Of Law That Is Most Crucial
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court’s judgment affirming that the mere pendency of criminal cases does not disentitle a citizen from obtaining a passport carries significance well beyond the narrow facts that triggered the ruling. At one level, the verdict reiterates settled law. The right to travel abroad, subject...
Zohran’s Mayoralty Can Advance The Cause Of Socialism In America
By Nick French NEW YORK: On January 1, what to many on the Left felt like a pipe dream less than a year ago is became a reality: democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City. It will not be an easy job. The...
Centre Okays 22 More Investment Proposals Worth Rs 42,000 Crore Under ECMS
NEW DELHI: The government cleared 22 more applications with investment proposals worth ₹41,863 crore under the Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS) on Friday. With these approvals, the total number of companies that have received the government’s nod under the ECMS has now reached 46, with a cumulative investment of...
Manufacturing Sector Growth Falls To Two-Year Low In December
NEW DELHI: India’s manufacturing sector activity witnessed the weakest improvement in the sector in two years in December on account of softer expansions in new orders, prompting firms to limit input purchases and job creation, a monthly survey said on Friday. The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’...
Govt Announces Rs 7,295-Crore Export Support Package To Improve Exporters’ Access To Credit
NEW DELHI: The government on Friday announced a Rs 7,295-crore export support package, comprising a Rs 5,181-crore interest subvention scheme along with a Rs 2,114-crore collateral support, to improve exporters’ access to credit. Both measures will be rolled out over a period of six years (2025-31). Additional Secretary in...
Govt Panel Reviews Foreign Banks’ Plans To Open Branches In India
NEW DELHI: The inter-departmental committee (IDC), chaired by Department of Financial Services (DFS) Secretary M Nagaraju, on Friday considered the proposals received from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for foreign banks seeking to open branches, representative offices or subsidiaries in India. According to the official press statement, the...
Insurance Players Upbeat On Growth Pick-Up In 2026
CHENNAI: Life and health insurers expect 2026 to mark a return to stronger growth, buoyed by the GST rate cut and the passage of the Insurance Amendment Bill. According to industry players, the two developments could address both demand- and supply-side constraints. “Over the last quarter, GST relief has...
Pushing The Financial System Towards A Dangerous Direction
By Prabhat Patnaik The BJP-led government has just got parliament to pass a legislation permitting up to 100 percent foreign equity-ownership in India’s insurance sector. This, the Prime Minister has announced, marks the beginning of a major “reform” in India’s financial sector, towards presumably much greater private, including foreign,...
BJP’s Cruel Politics Of State-Led Deprivation And Racist Otherisation
By Krishna Jha Power is faceless when it is on its own. It acts only when someone takes its reigns. But when it is made to act by those that are driven by their divisive designs, it gets authoritarian. The year is at its end, and there are attacks,...
The Communist Party Has Long Struggled For Indian People’s Rights
By Dr. Soma Marla The communist movement in India is now a century old. Soon after independence, although, farmers and workers played an active role in freedom struggle, their aspirations were not addressed by the ruling classes. The Communist party took the task of organizing the workers, poor farmers,...
From Indore To Punjab, Media Questions Irk Governments
By Jag Mohan Thaken When a journalist asked questions to BJP leader and Madhya Pradesh Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya, over the death of 10 kids in Indore by drinking contaminated water, he snapped at the reporter, saying, “Don’t ask a worthless (fokat) question.” With the reporter pressing for answers, Vijayvargiya,...
The Modi Doctrine: India’s Navigation Through Global Turbulence
By T N Ashok In the chancelleries of power from Washington to Moscow, a singular question has preoccupied strategic minds throughout 2025: how has India, under Narendra Modi, managed to preserve its economic momentum and political leverage whilst others faltered? The answer lies not in fortune but in a...
Murmurs Of Organisation Reform In Congress Get Louder, Irk Bosses
By Rahil Nora Chopra After poll routs in Maharashtra, Haryana, Delhi and poor performance in the assembly elections of Bihar, the voices for organisational reforms within the Indian National Congress have grown far stronger. The latest in the long line of such voices is senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh....
CAG State Finances Report 2023–24: Revenue Capacity Continues To Vary Widely Among States
NEW DELHI: States’ Own Tax Revenue (SOTR) continued to be the single largest source of income for Indian states in 2023–24, underscoring its growing importance for fiscal autonomy even as sharp inter-State disparities persist, according to the State Finances 2023–24 report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India...
