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Statement from Trade Union Centre of India WE HAVE SUFFERED A GREAT LOSS! HIS MEMORY MOVES US ON! It is with a heavy heart that I have to inform you of the sad death of Com. Mulul Sinha this evening at around 5 pm due to complications arising out of lung cancer from which he […]

Delhi University Community against Police Repression Event: Press Conference on the abduction, arrest and torture of Dr. G.N. Saibaba. Venue: Press Club of India Date: 14th May 2014 (WEDNESDAY) Time: 3 pm. We invite you to a Press Conference condemning the abduction, arrest and on-going mental and physical torture of Dr. GN Saibaba, a well […]

Rape Victims warn Hudda against inaction Victims and activists unite in demanding One Crore compensation and rehabilitation for Bhagana’s Dalit minor rape victim girls and forcing the Haryana CM to act against the upper caste perpetrators who have brazenly been grabbing the Dalit villagers’ land PRESS RELEASE New Delhi, 11 May 2014: Hundreds of women, […]

APDR Welomes Supreme Court’s Order for a CBI Probe in the 12.000 Crore Saradha Scam. Demands Punishment of all those associated with scam and return of the money looted from the common people Large sections of the people cheated by the Saradha Ponzi Scheme operators, political parties and many others were demanding a CBI probe […]

Suniti Kumar Ghosh, revolutionary communist and ideologue of the Naxalbari movement, passed away on May 11 evening, in Asansol, West Bengal. He was associated with the communist movement in India from the time of the Tebhaga movement, and later was a member of the All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries, formed in the wake […]

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/405630/intellectuals-condemn-saibaba039s-arrest.html Intellectuals condemn Saibaba’s arrest New Delhi: May 9, 2014 DHNS Intellectuals and teachers, including Arundhati Roy, on Friday, condemned the arrest of English professor G N Saibaba on charges of alleged involvement in Maoist activities, saying it was “arbitrary and illegal” and an attempt to stifle voice of dissent. In a statement, the intellectuals […]

[“Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, a new book by French economist, Thomas Piketty, has taken the English language world of letters by storm. Built on painstaking research spanning more than a decade, Capital in the Twenty-First Century presents a a vivid picture on changes in wealth and income inequality since the Industrial Revolution. Using tax-returns […]

We invite you to a meeting on “State, Law and Detention – State of Democratic Rights in India” Friday 9 May 2014, 6.30pm at Doughty Street Chambers, 53-54 Doughty St, London WC1N 2LS Two guest speakers from India Sanober Keshwaar and Susan Abraham will talk about the Increased use of draconian detention laws and the […]

Report on deadly attack on worker activists of Gurgaon Mazdoor Sangharsh Samiti and Bigul Mazdoor Dasta May 5. Ghaziabad. Goons of owner and management of Sriram Piston attacked the activists of Gurgaon Mazdoor Sangharsh Samiti and Bigul Mazdoor Dasta who were distributing pamphlets at the Ghaziabad plant of Sriram Piston in support of the struggling […]

by Sanjeev Kumar (Antim) Gujarat saw deteriorating quality of primary education in the last decade, and declining rank in literacy from fourth in 2001 to ninth in 2011 among the 20 major states [1]. The rank of Gujarat in terms of literacy rate for children above 6 years was 19th during 55th round of NSSO […]