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• Documenting the Predicaments of Bengali Migrant Workers | Arup Kumar Sen

  26 July 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  In recent times, tales of brutal treatment and eviction of Bengali migrant workers from different states in India have been reported in the media. Some Muslim workers from Murshidabad district in West Bengal, who went to Mumbai to earn their livelihood, were arrested by the police on June 9, 2025, and brutally tortured in the prison. One of them, Shamim Khan, complained that the police took away his mobile phone, voter identity card and about twenty thousand rupees that he had. Then the (…)

• Governance as if people, democracy and conservation matter | C.R Bijoy

  26 July 2025

  Governance as if people, democracy and conservation matter is embedded in social and environmental justice, expressed through ethics, morality, culture and spirituality. It is an outcome of intense political struggle for deepening democracy. The human species is the only species that organizes production. We organize society in ways that suit the way we organize production. Conservation ethics expresses itself through the ethic of natural resource allocation, their use and protection. The (…)

• Was Dhankar sacrificed on Shekhar Yadav altar? | Faraz Ahmad

  26 July 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  Was the outgoing Vice President of India Jagdeep Dhankar sacrificed at the altar of the communally surcharged hate spewing Allahabad High Court judge Shekhar Yadav? It seems that saving the skin of that abrasive unapologetic Hindutva judge, who defied the advice of the then Chief Justice of India, to apologise for his perceived misconduct, enjoyed such immunity from this Government that he chose to brazen it out.
  A little error of judgement on the part of Dhankar to give voice to the (…)

• Left to Fade: The Forgotten Faces of MP Jails | Jabali

  26 July 2025

  A long wait for justice
  For almost eighteen years, a few prisoners from Telugu-speaking regions have been locked up in different jails in Madhya Pradesh. They are far from their families, friends, relatives

• Hindutva Politics and Creeping Ascent of Violence Against Women in Odisha | Bhabani Shankar Nayak

  26 July 2025

  A female student and leading member of the BJP

• Modi Era: Old Land, New Miracles | L K Sharma

  26 July 2025, by L K Sharma

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK EXCERPT *blanc]fond noir]
  The New India, like the old one, is a land of miracles. Western visitors admired Indians for walking on water and the rope-trick. Now, they love its Nonbiological Being (NB) who claims in human voice that he is not human! Moses split the sea. Prophet Muhammad split the Moon. NB split society, a feat no less than splitting the atom.
  Indophiles, who come to explore exotica, find that the New India is not beguiled by modernity. They interview (…)

• Aadhaar Act is an Assault on Basic Structure of Constitution: India

  26 July 2025, by Gopal Krishna

  Supreme Court

• Greening The Blue Initiative: Geopolitics of ASEAN and QUAD Role in Combating IUU Fishing | Lakshmi Karlekar, Aanchal Prasad

  26 July 2025

  The Indo-Pacific region has become a pivotal geopolitical and economic hub, but it is under increasing risk from Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing. The article addresses the complex influence of IUU fishing on marine ecosystems, regional maritime security, and coastal communities’ livelihood. Case studies from Indonesia’s Lombok and Sunda Straits are examined, and local issues and responses are identified. The function of multilateral forums like the Quad countries (the four (…)

• Hindi vs Marathi and the contest over Indian identity | Mandar Oak

  26 July 2025

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  Opposition to the National Education Policy in Maharashtra isn

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  CPI concern at starvation deaths in Gaza, Calls upon Indian Parliament to Stand in Solidarity with Palestine

  26 July 2025

  Communist Party of India
  New Delhi,
  July 24, 2025
  Press Release
  CPI expresses its anguish and concern at increasing starvation deaths in Gaza, Condemns Complicity of Israel, US, UK, EU