Old defensive technique, particularly if the war turns to a nuclear exchange, are no longer of value. The 1950s manuals from the United States that urged students to hide under their desks during a ...

NAZI Germany was basically defeated by the Soviet Union. The sacrifice made by the Soviet people in defence of their country in that war was utterly unimaginable. From the very beginning however there ...

The convention was inaugurated by the U Vasuki, vice president of AIDWA, and CPI (M) Polit Bureau member. She explained the situation of women agricultural and rural workers in the country and ...

On World Press Freedom Day on May 3, media organisations from across the globe released a joint statement demanding an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The full statement reads: MAY 3 marks World ...

HEAVY rains battered Chennai city and other parts of the state and has thrown life out of gear in several parts of Tamilnadu. People of these areas are having a harrowing experience under water ...

Hundreds of million Indian workers are ready to strike on May 20 to demand higher minimum wages and a rollback of BJP’s anti-worker policies. NINETY per cent of Indian workers are in the unorganised ...

THE Trump administration has launched an all-out trade war to isolate China and bring manufacturing, hollowed out through decades of outsourcing, and its associated jobs back to the US. While the ...

THE Tamilnadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association (TNPWAA) recently lost three of its most prominent cultural figures – poet-orator Nandalala (Trichy), writer Narumpunathan (Tirunelveli), and ...

THE triennial conference of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), Delhi-NCR was held on May 3-4, 2025 at Surjeet Bhavan. After the flag hoisting by Prof Indu Agnihotri, former ...

ON behalf of the CPI(M), John Brittas, leader of the Party in the Rajya Sabha attended the All Party Meeting convened by the Government of India on 8 May 2025, in the wake of ‘Operation Sindoor’. John ...

FRANCOPHONE Africa was never fully decolonised. In the name of protecting French property located in its former colonies, France insisted on, and the former colonies agreed to, the stationing of ...

A ONE-day ‘State-Level Women Agricultural Workers Conference,’ organised by the state committee of the Maharashtra State Agricultural Workers’ Union (Lal Bawta), was successfully held on April 27, ...