ON the 50th anniversary of the Internal Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi on June 25, 1975, the CPI (M) in Tripura organised hall meetings and discussions across various sub-divisions to reflect on ...

Thus, the general strike on July 9 is certainly going to be the largest ever general strike the country has witnessed till today with unprecedented participation of all the producing sections of the ...

THE Nehru-Mahalanobis strategy which broadly underlay the entire dirigiste period is now being intensely vilified, not just by the Modi crowd, but even by neoliberal elements within the Congress and ...

In all this, it is not surprising that the compromise and surrender by RSS leaders during that period finds no place. This sordid chapter has been buried under the barrage of chest thumping ...

The roots of the deadly coalition of military, industry and academia were first examined by sociologist C Wright Mills, who prophesied the shift of US to a "permanent war economy" in which military ...

The Election Commission is also responsible for preparing electoral rolls and conducting these elections. Over the last 75 years, the electoral system has operated with a fair degree of integrity, ...

UNDER the heavily fortified Polavaram Multi-Purpose Irrigation Project, a clandestine operation is underway, marked by widespread and unprecedented violations of labour laws. The site, transformed ...

NILOTPAL Basu, Polit Bureau member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), has written to the Chief Election Commissioner expressing strong opposition to the "Special Intensive Revision" of ...