2023

Dear Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres and President of the World Bank Ajay Banga,
RE: Setting serious goals to combat inequality
As a group of economists and leaders in the fight against extreme inequalities from around the world, we write to request your leadership towards ensuring that the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank back vital new strategic goals and indicators, that can redouble efforts to address rising extreme inequality. (…)

13th July 2023
Press Release
BSNL employees are rightfully demanding Justice
We, the Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions, have come to know the non- executive employees of BSNL are planning to launch agitations to press their long pending demands. They had a massive dharna at Jantar Mantar on 7th July and resolved to take up campaign forward. They have every right to do so.
We are witness to the discriminatory policy followed by the Central Government towards BSNL in not offering (…)

ALL INDIA BANK EMPLOYEE ASSOCIATION (AIBEA)
Press Release
by C.H. Venkatachalam, Gen Secretary, AIBEA
WE HAIL 55TH BANK NATIONALISATION DAY – 19TH JULY 1969 – 2023
Nationalised Banks are Nation building institutions Privatising Banks is anti-people
18-7-2023
19th July, 2023 marks the successful completion of 54 years since the major privately owned Banks were nationalized in our country. Thus, 19th July, 2023 marks the 55th Bank Nationalisation Day. It is an important occasion (…)

It is crystal clear that it is the March 27 ruling of the Manipur High Court to award ST status to the majority Meitei community (mostly Hindu) that led to mass protests by Zo-Kukis in early May which in turn led to violent attacks by Meitei vigilante groups and then a spiral of violence on both sides but with the Kukis easily the principal sufferers. Not the least reason for this being that the ruling BJP government and its Chief Minister Biren Singh have in various ways favoured the (…)

CPI Parliamentary Party Leader Shri Binoy Viswam serves notice under Rule 267 to have a discussion on the disturbing developments in Manipur
Communist Party of India Parliamentary Party Leader and National Secretary Shri Binoy Viswam served a Notice under Rule 267 of Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Rajya Sabha to have a discussion on the disturbing developments in the state of Manipur over the last three months.

Forgotten Refugees, Two Iraqi Brothers in India
by Nandita Haksar
Speaking Tiger Books LLP
2022
ISBN- 978-93-5447-311-1 __0__
Nandita Haksar is an eminent human rights lawyer who has left her own imprint and set a precedent in the arena of human rights law. Apart from that she is a renowned campaigner and teacher. Both in Indian courts and international fields she fought tirelessly for the rights of refugees whether they were internally displaced people or refugees evicted from (…)

BOOK REVIEW
Reviewed by Animesh Chatterjee (Greenhouse Centre for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger)
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Creativity from the Periphery: Trading Zones of Scientific Exchange in Colonial India
by Deepanwita Dasgupta
University of Pittsburgh Press 2021. 312 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8229-8802-1 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4656-4.
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Outlining her arguments, Deepanwita Dasgupta writes that the purpose of Creativity from the Periphery: Trading Zones of (…)

* Logic and Necessity of Anti-Conversion Laws in Tribal Dominant Areas in India | Chhotelal Kumar
* Manipur: Women and Children in Conflict | Lily Sangpui
* Malerkotla: An Opportunity to Reimagine the Educational Experiences of Muslim Girls Using a Community-Based Approach | Gupta & Kaur
* PUCL Statement — Manipur Govt Criminalising Human Rights Work — FIR Against NFIW fact-Finding Team

Northern India has been battered by heavy rains, causing flooding, landslides, and mudslides in the past week. The States of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, parts of Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi have been affected by these floods. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated. In our national capital, the river Yamuna has breached the danger mark, and major sections of the city’s arterial ring road are submerged under water, and so is Rajghat, Mahatma Gandhi’s resting place, and famed (…)

July 18, 2023
India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, in a special letter to Chief Ministers written on 9th September 1948, observed, “We must, at all costs, and with all our strength prevent any communal deterioration in any province”. “The consequence of this,” he said, “will be harmful to us in many ways”, Cautioning that “Nationally, this will impede our effort and produce complications,” he warned that “Internationally, it will not only injure our good name but may have (…)