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Jyotinagar: No Bridge Over ‘Troubled Water’?
  • State
  • September 4, 2026

Jyotinagar offers a stark glimpse of how access to the most basic necessities can become a weapon against a politically and religiously targeted community.   Srijan Dutta   It has been 36 days since the municipal tap water supply to the Jyotinagar neighbourhood in the Cossipore area in North Kolkata, was abruptly cut off. The […]

The Next Election May be Our Last
  • Commentary
  • September 1, 2026

Donald Trump is determined to subvert the midterms. All that can save us, if he succeeds, is a national strike.   CHRIS HEDGES Aug 31, 2026   The Trump White House has put into place a series of mechanisms to fix or invalidate the midterm elections. Congress will not save us. The courts will not […]

When the Mountain Broke: Inside Nepal’s Deadliest Himalayan Flood
  • Commentary
  • August 31, 2026

The disaster exposed the extreme fragility of high-altitude Himalayan ecosystems under a shifting climate.   By Madhab Pant   At roughly 8:30 AM on 26 August 2026, a wall of water, mud, ice, and massive boulders roared down the Lhende Khola into the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli river systems. The surge struck without local rainfall or […]

200 Days of Broken Promises: Workers Warn West Bengal Government of Mass Movement
  • Labour
  • August 31, 2026

Around three hundred working people from 12 trade unions and mass organisations  from the unorganised sector across West Bengal sent a clear warning to the new State Government : Workers will not accept hunger, eviction, unpaid wages, stolen PF, insecure employment or broken promises as the price of survival. If the Government fails to address […]

SKM Says MMDR Amendment Hands Mineral Wealth to Corporates, Strips States of Revenue
  • National
  • August 31, 2026

The new mining law curbs states’ power to tax mineral-bearing land. The SKM calls it an assault on federalism and warns that the ‘neo-extractivist’ regime will hand greater control of India’s mineral wealth—and Adivasi territories—to mining corporations.   Groundxero | August 31, 2026   For communities living on India’s mineral-rich lands, the battle over the […]

How the Media Sells Genocide
  • Palestine
  • August 24, 2026

Western media, by employing double standards, censorship, deceptive language, amplifying Israeli lies and dehumanizing Palestinians, facilitates the genocide in Gaza.   CHRIS HEDGES Aug 24, 2026   The Western media manufactures consent for genocide. It normalizes Israel’s decades-long military occupation and apartheid. It erases Israel’s flagrant violations of international law. It perpetuates the fallacy of Israeli victimhood. It betrays, discredits and […]