BRINDA Karat, senior CPI(M) leader and former Rajya Sabha MP, has written to Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, on August 6, demanding immediate intervention ...

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 ...

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 ...

The battle is thus joined. But it has to yet travel through a long, arduous path to stamp out the poison of hatred, fanatic blindness and jingoism that has been imbued in large sections of people. It ...

When independent India had refused to join any of the military alliances like SEATO and CENTO that US imperialism had formed around the world to encircle the Soviet Union, but had instead chosen to ...

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

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 ...

At the same time, there were a few analyses, including by this writer in these columns and elsewhere, who questioned the AAIB report and inconsistencies in its analysis, as well as its preliminary ...

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 ...