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During the last few years, villages of Manika Block in Latehar District have been terrorised by Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad (JJMP), a police-sponsored outfit allegedly aimed at countering Maoist influence

A vicious attack was launched by BJP MP, Anurag Thakur in the Lok Sabha in Zero Hour on April 27 and in a section of the media on India’s Struggle for Independence, a book published in 1988, 28 years ago, by Bipan Chandra, K.N. Panikkar and the three of us. Deliberate misrepresentation of Bipan Chandra’s views on Bhagat Singh is being done by saying that he used the term “revolutionary terrorism” to denigrate the martyr

Message from an Indian girl whose father died in the Kargil war

Beyond the Government’s role in ensuring that workers are able to form trade unions, the global brands have a key role to play here. When asked what brands could do, workers consistently said that brands should only source from factories where there exists a trade union or give preference to companies who have a worker formed trade union in place.

Editorial commentary from newspapers in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan on the continued target killings by fundamentalist groups in Bangladesh.