Any meaningful measure of poverty must have a “flow” dimension covering, say, income, and a “stock” dimension covering asset ownership. Both dimensions are important. For instance if persons have the ...

The right to form a union is a fundamental right guaranteed by the constitution. It is not something to be begged from anyone ...

ONE year ago, as Israel launched its massive war on Gaza after the October 7 Hamas attack, the US government was fully aware its ally was embarking on a campaign that would end up with Benjamin ...

The rally began at the DC Office in Shimla and made its way through the bustling streets of Lower Bazaar and Mall Road, ultimately arriving at the iconic Ridge Ground, where a statue of Mahatma Gandhi ...

We are here in Meppady to meet affected families of the Wayanad tragedy. Even two months later, so deep is the trauma that none of the survivors we meet speak about the horror of that night on July ...

THE Tamil Nadu police, in an attempt to suppress the Samsung workers' protest, raided their homes and arrested more than 10 people. They dismantled the tents at the protest site in a disruptive ...

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), in a statement issued on October 9, condemned the arrest of CITU national vice president A S Soundarajan, state secretary E Muthukumar, and other Samsung ...

The approach of the high-level committee became evident from the first point in the terms of reference for its work: “Examine and make recommendations for holding simultaneous elections to the House ...

THE “inevitable striving of finance capital”, Lenin had written in Imperialism, (is) “to enlarge its spheres of influence and even its actual territory”. He was writing of course in a world marked by ...