Manesar, 30 January: Today at around 11 am Manesar police coming in large number picked up around 100 Maruti workers from their dharna site which is continuing since 18 September 2024. The tents, placards and other stuffs were demolished. Later, the workers were taken far from Manesar to Pataudi by bus and released, but […]
28 January, 2025 Since May-June 2023, the Adivasi and Dalit communities of Tijmali, Kuturumali and Majhingimali, in Kashipur and Thuamal Rampur blocks in Raygada and Kalahandi districts in Odisha, respectively, have been protesting against the proposed bauxite mining project of Vedanta Ltd. The struggle is for the protection of their lands, forests, streams and […]
DeepSeek’s “reasoning” R1 model, released last week, provoked excitement among researchers, shock among investors, and responses from AI heavyweights. The company followed up on January 28 with a model that can work with images as well as text. So what has DeepSeek done, and how did it do it? By Tongliang Liu, University of […]
We should keep a track of this case as the perpetrator with solid political and financial background may go free after sometime. Sudarshana Chakraborty reports on the case after talking to independent journalists and activists from Bastar. The New Year started on an ominous note for independent journalists in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district. Even as the […]
Israel plays a cynical game. It makes phased agreements with the Palestinians that ensure it immediately gets what it wants. It then violates every subsequent phase and reignites its military assault. CHRIS HEDGES JAN 16, 2025 Israel, going back decades, has played a duplicitous game. It signs a deal with the Palestinians that is to […]
They may be only seeds, but that’s how new life is born. By Yanis Varoufakis Watching, on the one hand, the Israeli soldiers’ video confessions of their genocidal intent and acts and, on the other hand, the Palestinians’ livestreaming of their own deaths and devastation, it is ever so easy to throw one’s […]
The generally mild nature of the illness, the widespread detection of antibodies reflecting broad population exposure and immunity, combined with a lack of any known major pandemics in the past due to hMPV, suggests there’s no cause for alarm. By Allen Cheng, Monash University Five years on from the first news of COVID, […]
Israel and the U.S. government will continue the genocide in Gaza for many months until the Palestinians are annihilated or driven from their homeland and Greater Israel is consolidated. CHRIS HEDGES JAN 6 Joe Biden’s parting gift of $8 billion in weapons sales to the apartheid state of Israel acknowledges the gruesome reality of the genocide in Gaza. This […]
CAMPAIGN AGAINST STATE REPRESSION (CASR) has condemned the arbitrary arrest of the trade union leader Baccha Singh, calling his arrest as part of a crackdown on anti-displacement, labour, farmer and student activists to intimidate or jail them without material evidence, in a bid to suppress the people’s growing demand of a just and better society. […]
More than three thousand non-permanent (contract, trainee, apprentice, TW, CW, MST etc.) workers who have worked and are working in Maruti Suzuki plants in Gurgaon-Manesar gathered for a mass meeting in Gurgaon to demand permanent jobs, equal pay and salary increase. 5th January 2025 In a significant move, more than three thousand erstwhile […]
Three courageous individuals who chose to put their careers on the line to fight against Big Tech’s role in Israel’s genocide. CHRIS HEDGES JAN 02, 2025 The vast censorship and suppression campaign launched by American tech companies since October 7, 2023 has been both systemic and deliberate. Instagram, Facebook, X as well as […]
During this Christmas season alone, at least 14 incidents targeting Christians were reported, ranging from threats and disruptions to arrests and outright attacks, underscoring an alarming trend of rising intolerance and hostility. Groundxero | Jan.2, 2025 Christmas celebrations in India were overshadowed by violent incidents on December 25, 2024, as several states reported attacks on […]