2025

Communist Party of India
Central Office
New Delhi
PRESS RELEASE: New Delhi,
September 10, 2025
CPI Expresses Concern over the Situation in Nepal,
Calls for Unity of Progressive Forces and Defence of Democracy
The National (…)

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:
On Nepal Turmoil
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its deep anguish over the loss of 20 precious young lives during the GenZ protests in Nepal. These protests reflect the widespread anger stemming from the growing grievances of the people, particularly the youth, against the repeated failures of successive governments to resolve their genuine problems and meet their aspirations. (…)

Socialist Party (India)
Website: spi.org.in
Press Release
Kuki National Organisation and United Peoples Front, both Kuki-Zo organisations, reached a renegotiated agreement on 4 September 2025, with the Government of India to extend the Suspension of Operations, which was first signed in 2008. As part of this agreement, Kuki militants are required to stay in designated camps and their arms are kept under lock. In return, they get a stipend from the government. The Coordinating Committee (…)

September 10, 2025
National Alliance of Anti-Nuclear Movements (NAAM)
42/27 Esankai Mani Veethy
Nagercoil 629 002
Tamil Nadu
India
Email: koodankulam[atyahoo.com
Mobile: +91-98656 83735
Mr. Masato Kanda, President of the ADB
Mr. Priyantha Wijayatunga, Senior Director, Energy Sector Office
ADB Board of Directors
Asian Development Bank
6 ADB Avenue
Mandaluyong
Metro Manila
Philippines
Re: Concerns and Demands of Indian CSOs and Activists Challenging ADB

CPI-ML Liberation statement on France:
Hundreds of thousands of workers, students, trade unions, and citizens have taken to the streets of France in a massive wave of strikes, marches, and blockades against President Macron

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Strange Library
by Haruki Murakami
Harvill Secker
January 1, 2014, ? 88 pages
ISBN-10: 1846559219
ISBN-13: 978-1846559211
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Haruki Murakami

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Notes from Willingdon Island: The Past, The Present, and The Future of Cochin Port and its Hinterland
by N. Ramachandran
Konark
Pages: xxvi + 334; Price: Rs 900
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This is a beautiful and straight-from-the-heart account of the Cochin Port

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Abortion in Mexico: A History
by Nora E. Jaffary
University of Nebraska Press
Series: Engendering Latin America
2024, 163 pp.
(paper), ISBN 978-1-4962-4021-7
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Reviewed by Katherine E. Bliss (Global Policy Center, Center for Strategic and International Studies)
In this new volume, historian Nora E. Jaffary examines how and why legal approaches to abortion in Mexico have changed over time. In particular, she seeks to (…)

* Earthquake in Afghanistan: When Customs Kill More Than the Quake | S N Tripathy
* Dadabhai Naoroji at 200: The Grand Old Man . . . | Santhosh Mathew
* Trump

The recent earthquake in Afghanistan was merciless. A 6.6-magnitude tremor, followed by powerful aftershocks, reduced villages to rubble, killing at least 2,200 people and injuring more than 3,600. Yet while the seismic waves destroyed homes, it is centuries-old customs and rigid gender restrictions that have deepened the tragedy. Women, already the most oppressed under Taliban rule, were left among the last to be rescued-or not rescued at all-as Taliban rules barred unrelated men from (…)