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• FTAs and Marginalized Sections | Arun Kumar

  31 May 2025, by Arun Kumar

  A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between UK and India has been announced. A day later a FTA between US and Britain was announced. India may soon conclude FTAs with US, EU, etc.. A FTA is hailed as win-win for both sides since they are supposed to lead to increased trade between the parties and thereby increase their GDP. These benefits are supposedly a result of the

• Crisis for Street Vendors and Unheard Voices of Post-Covid Recovery in Delhi | V.K.Sridhar

  31 May 2025

  Abstract
  This paper unravels the post Covid-19 impacts on street vendors, highlighting how the pandemic has exacerbated their crisis due to their informal nature of their employment and the lack of official recognition, of their status. Additionally, incomplete surveys of street vendors have resulted in insufficient data, hindering their eligibility for government assistance during the pandemic. Despite their significant contribution to the country

• Kerala Oil Spill Disaster Menaces Marine Species: Need To Ensure Ships Comply With Maritime Norms | P. Sreekumaran

  31 May 2025

  (India Press Agency, May 30, 2025) Thiruvananthapuram: Keralites woke up on Saturday, May 24, 2025 to the horrifying news of a Liberian-flagged cargo ship, MSC Elsa 3, sinking just 27 km away from the State

• The Narayanpur Massacre and the BJP’s Sinister Military Campaign for a ’Maoist-free India’ | Dipankar Bhattacharya

  31 May 2025

  Via the Facebook Page of Dipankar Bhattacharya — May 28, 2025
  Following the extra-judicial killing of CPI(Maoist) general secretary Comrade Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavaraju in the Narayanpur massacre on 21 May, the Modi government seems to be in a celebratory mode. While Home Minister Amit Shah called it ’a landmark achievement in the battle to eliminate Naxalism’, promptly endorsed as a ’remarkable success’ by PM Narendra Modi, the BJP Karnataka unit used a meme showing Amit Shah (…)

• Modi government’s offensive to wipe out the Naxalite movement | Arun Srivastava

  31 May 2025

  While the centrist-liberal Congress was unforgiving towards the Naxalites, but the right wing forces led by RSS and BJP are determined to wipe out the Maoists from the political map of the country and create a ’Maoist Mukta Bharat’ (Maoist Free India), as just they had pledged to create ’Congress Mukta Bharat’, soon after Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, which nonetheless could not be accomplished.
  Ever since rightwing Modi government came to power eleven years ago at least 1000 (…)

• P. Sundarayya

  31 May 2025, by Aditya Nigam

  The resignation letter of the first General Secretary of the CPI(M), P. Sundarayya

• We don’t want any dictator! | Suresh Khairnar

  31 May 2025, by Suresh Khairnar

  On the occasion of 61st death anniversary of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru
  On 27 May 1964, I was eleven years old when the news of Jawaharlal Nehru’s death came. There is a taluka named Shindkheda in Dhule district of Maharashtra, where I had gone to spend summer holidays at my aunt’s house. And my aunt had bought a good radio of that time from the Philips company. So, before 2 o’clock in the afternoon on 27 May 1964, I was shocked to hear the news of Jawaharlal Nehru’s death being broadcast by (…)

• Probashi

  31 May 2025, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  HE IS SUBTLE. So, he is less discussed than the younger Bollywood actors who are at best a few films old. Less written about in

• The Political Targets of Operation Sindoor |

  31 May 2025, by P S Jayaramu

  Code named Operation Sindoor, India

• After Pahalgam: Pakistan

  31 May 2025

  May 27, 2025
  From battlefield resilience to diplomatic advantage, Pakistan emerges stronger-yet lasting peace demands more than wartime unity
  by Mazhar Abbas
  Undoubtedly, Pakistan emerged stronger both on the war as well as diplomatic front following the April 22nd Pahalgam incident in Indian-held Kashmir. While war rarely brings joy, when a country faces aggression and responds decisively, it can offer a momentary sense of relief and national pride.
  As always, truth is the first (…)