One of Kerala's most notable successes is its gender parity in higher education. In fact, it has surpassed parity: of the 1.3 million students currently enrolled in higher education in the state, over ...

THE General Strike on July 9 gave a glimpse of the anger of the workers and the toiling people against their worsening ...

In addition, higher officials must carry out rationalisation and rearrangement, finalise the proposed restructuring of ...

Since the turn of the millennium, the share of developed countries in global foreign direct investment (FDI) has fallen below 50 per cent, while the developing South has emerged as a major destination ...

This argument thus denies the need for imperialism by assuming in effect that imperialism already pervades the world. Or, to put it differently, it postulates that there is no distinction between the ...

In the 21st century, with finance-driven globalisation, conflict-induced displacement, and transnational labour flows, migration has taken on new urgency. Yet, alongside this trend, the rise of ...

THE farmers’ struggle against forced land acquisition in the 13 villages of Channarayapatna Hobli, Devanahalli Taluk, in Bangalore Rural district, has ended in victory after 1,198 days of continuous ...

THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its profound grief at the death of V S Achuthanandan, an outstanding leader and veteran of the communist movement. V S ...

The 17th BRICS Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro on July 6-7, the first summit with the expanded membership of eleven countries. Soon after, US President Trump threatened to impose 10 per cent tariffs ...

Since 2012, the central authority of the Syrian state has been weakened from the edge of the Golan Heights through the city of Daraa to the villages of As-Suwayda forming a belt along the southern ...

It points to the fact that back then itself VS had understood that political struggles ought to have a cultural angle too. It is a well acknowledged fact that Kerala’s standard of living is higher ...

THE much awaited Preliminary Report (PR) of the investigation by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) into the horrendous crash of Air India flight AI-171 at Ahmedabad on June 11 this ...