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  Supreme Court Observations in UGC Equity Rule and Domestic Workers Cases Reflect Myopic Attitude | CPIML

  1 March

  Statement
  29 January, 2026
  CPIML Liberation denounces the Supreme Court

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  CPI Statement condemning the visit of the Prime Minister of India to Israel and his address to the Knesset

  1 March

  Communist Party of India
  February 26, 2026
  Press Release
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (February 26, 2026):
  The Communist Party of India strongly condemns the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Israel and his address to the Knesset, held at a time when relentless military operations continue in Gaza Strip and violence and forcible displacement are intensifying in the West Bank.
  This visit cannot be projected as a (…)

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  NFIW Statement Against the Legalisation Of Domestic Violence by the Taliban In Afghanistan

  1 March

  National Federation of Indian Women
  February 20, 2026
  The National Federation of Indian Women strongly condemns the reported penal code introduced in Afghanistan under the Taliban rule and authority of Hibatullah Akhundzada, and stands in solidarity with the Afghan women in their struggle for justice.
  The new code is the

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  Attack on Director of Education and ruling party supporters in Uttrakhand | Statement by Uttarakhand Humanity Forum

  1 March

  [Feb 25, 2026]
  Press note
  Beating up of the Director of Education, the ruling party’s irritation.
  Dehradun
  Uttarakhand Humanity Forum strongly condemns the fatal attack on the Director of Primary Education and described the incident as the result of the brutality of the ruling party supporters. The forum has demanded strict action against the attackers.
  In a press note, the platform said that going to the government office with the crowd and damaging government property by fighting (…)

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  Music: March of the Jobless Corps

  1 March

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  March of the Jobless Corps by Daniel Kahn - Topic https://youtu.be/mVZlh4WC8Js?si=oWpZ95Wt3tA9tdC4
  March of the Jobless Corps

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  Documentary: For the People Despite the People: The Ataturk Revolution

  1 March
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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Vol 64 No 5, Feb 15, 2026

  15 February

  * SIR in West Bengal | Arup Kumar Sen
  * Disaster Management funding: 16th Finance Commission report |G.V.Venugopala Sarma
  * Savarkar

• India’s AI Deficit The World’s Largest Engineering Pipeline Produces Workers, Not Innovators | Varna Sri Raman

  15 February, by Varna Sri Raman

  Why the US invested 94 times more in AI than India last year, why 62% of India’s top engineering talent emigrates, why every semiconductor fab proposal keeps collapsing, and what this means for an IT sector already shedding tens of thousands of jobs to the very technology India cannot build.
  IN DECEMBER 2025, India’s IT Minister proudly tweeted that India had

• SIR in West Bengal: A Tool of Mass Exclusion | Arup Kumar Sen

  15 February, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has become a contested terrain in West Bengal on the eve of the assembly elections in 2026. Already the names of a large of voters in the State have been deleted in the electoral rolls through this exercise. To put it in the words of The Hindu (February 9, 2026):

• Disaster Management funding: 16th Finance Commission report | G.V.Venugopala Sarma

  15 February, by G.V.Venugopala Sarma

  Many lofty principles are pronounced on how disaster risk management is holistic, not confined to response alone, has several activities before, during and after a disaster strikes and so on. The report of the 16th Finance Commission with reference to disaster management, recommends allocations to the tune of Rs 2.83 lakh crore for this sector for the period between 2026-27 and 2030-31. The following points are worth noting:
  (i) It recommends enhancement of funds at the State level from Rs (…)