The EC had shifted the goalpost midway when it waived the requirement of any of the11 documents before closing of the ...

THE 17th death anniversary of Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjeet, internationally renowned CPI (M) leader, former general secretary of the CPI (M), founder of the Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna Trust, and ...

What is new is using citizenship as an instrument in disciplining the working class. Power is not always explicit in matured capitalist democracies because brutal use of power and exclusion can hardly ...

Seventy-seven years after independence, the federal principle enshrined in the Constitution, the separate spheres of jurisdiction listed between the centre and the states, and the constitutional basis ...

IN the last one and half decades, West Bengal has borne witness to a chilling surge in gendered violence. From the shadowed alleys of Park Street to the sterile corridors of R G Kar Medical College ...

CONSIDERABLE time has gone by since the Air Accidents Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released its Preliminary Report (PR) on July 12 into the crash of Air India flight AI-171 a month earlier. The flurry ...

IT is ironical that on the 78th anniversary of the victory of the Indian people’s struggle against British imperialism, US imperialism is openly bullying India into obeying its diktat. But that, it ...

WE are into the independence week. Spirit of celebration is in the air! Is it really so or a hallucination. But in our journey towards the 79th Independence Day, it will be useful to revisit those ...

A LARGE protest rally and gherao of the Dahanu office of the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (Mahavitaran) ...

THOSE who are committed to believe in, and steadfastly practice India’s constitutional morality, are certainly ‘dismayed and disappointed’ over the Special NIA Court’s verdict acquitting all seven ...

In this context, Dr B R Ambedkar, while speaking during the Constituent Assembly Debates on December 10, 1948, discussing ...