Since 2014, the BJP is continuously drumming its commitment towards the cause of the farmers, while on each occasion, be it in Madhya Pradesh or in Rajasthan, it didn’t blink before using batons and bullets to deal with agitating farmers. Now, when 30,000 farmers marched under the banner of Bharatiya Kisan Union to the national … Read more
While the Narendra Modi-led BJP government and the entire Sangh conglomerate is busy beating the drums of jingoism and xenophobia by magnifying the skirmishes between the Indian and Pakistani military personnel at the Line of Control in Jammu & Kashmir at a crucial time when three BJP-ruled states- Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are going … Read more
The World Hindu Congress was organised from 7 to 9 September 2018 at Chicago, where RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat and Indian Vice President, a veteran Sangh propagandist, Venkaiah Naidu participated as key speakers. Hindutva hate mongers and rabble-rousers like the notorious Zionist Israeli agent Tapan Ghosh, the CIA stooge Indian corporate tycoons, the Hindutva poster-boy … Read more
The Parliament Street of New Delhi became crimson on 5 September 2018, as a rally of more than 200,000 workers and peasants marched towards the parliament raising their just demands, opposing the anti-people, pro-corporate and predatory policies of the Hindutva fascist Narendra Modi regime. Though the Mazdoor-Kisan Sangharsh rally was organised by the parliamentary opportunist … Read more
The good news for the Modi government is that Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries posted a hopping 17.9 per cent increase in profit during the first quarter (Q1) of the financial year (FY) 2018-19. Reliance Industries earned a profit of Rs 94.59 billion in Q1 of FY 2018-19 vis-a-vis Rs 80.21 billion profit in Q1 of … Read more
JIO Institute, the proposed higher education institution of the Reliance Foundation, owned by Mukesh Ambani’s wife Nita Ambani, which doesn’t even has a blade full of grass in its kitty, forget a campus or staff, is now granted the prestigious status of “Institute of Eminence” by Modi government’s Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD). This … Read more
Thanks to Narendra Modi’s loyalty towards his long-time funder and one of India’s top-notch crony and comprador capitalist Gautam Adani that the Adani Gas Ltd has now placed bid for supplying city gas in 32 cities on its own and in 20 cities through a joint venture with state-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), as per … Read more
The Pathalgadi movement of Jharkhand is gradually manifesting itself as the largest tribal movement of India in the 21st century. The movement that started with the demand of recognising the special status granted to the residents of the Fifth Scheduled Areas by the Indian Constitution is now turning into a serious battle between the Hindutva … Read more
The Modi regime has increased the minimum support price (MSP) of 14 notified Kharif crops to fulfil the BJP’s poll promise of increasing farmers’ income in comparison to the input cost of farming by 50 per cent. This promise was reiterated during the Union Budget 2018-19 and the government announced the increase in MSP on … Read more
There was a time when the mills of Bombay were the citadel of the militant working class movement led by the communist-influenced trade unions. More than Calcutta, the militant movement of the Bombay mill workers would panic the big comprador capitalists and their foreign investors, as at the end of the day, Bombay housed all … Read more
Four of India’s top diamantaires are involved in the largest banking fraud in India’s history. Gitanjali Gems (Mehul Choksi), Ginni (Choksi subsidiary), Nakshatra Jewellers (Choksi subsidiary), Firestar Diamond (Nirav Modi, his wife and his brother are owners) looted nearly ₹11,300 crore from the public sector bank – Punjab National Bank (PNB) and fled the country … Read more
Then came Ayodhya. After India was ripped apart and ravaged by a dastardly communal carnage and a large-scale displacement of people on communal lines during the partition, the Ram Janmabhoomi controversy suddenly resurrected, after dying a peaceful death in the 19th century when the Nirmohi Akhara, promoted and funded by British colonial rulers, started a … Read more
The most popular literary festival of India, the Times Lit Fest will be organised this December in Mumbai, where, along with literary and cultural personalities, RSS’ favourite Yoga-Guru-turned-FMCG-businessman Baba Ramdev is invited as a prominent guest. This decision by India’s largest corporate media conglomerate has taken aback a lot of distinguished writers and literary personalities. … Read more
The Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi was attacked by the BJP goons, during his Gujarat tour, where we went to take stock of the flood situation that is prevailing in the BJP-ruled state. The Sangh workers threw stones at the car ferrying Rahul Gandhi and it injured his PSO. Rahul Gandhi and the entire opposition … Read more
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley cleverly slipped in several amendments to the Companies Act 2013 during the passage of the Finance Bill 2017 in the Lok Sabha. The Finance Bill 2017 was dressed as a money bill, which made it redundant to be placed in Rajya Sabha for voting, where the BJP does not have the … Read more
The session court of Gadchiroli, Maharashtra has convicted Prof. Dr G.N. Saibaba, JNU student Hem Mishra, former freelance journalist Prashant Rahi, Mahesh Tirki, Vijay Tirki, and Pandu Narote of being “Maoists” and sentenced all to life imprisonment, except Vijay Tirki, who was awarded a 10-year jail term. The case in which these six were convicted … Read more
PR Economy Desk (02/02/2017): The Union Budget 2017-18 presented by Arun Jaitley on 1st February 2017 was special due to three reasons: It became the first budget since the foundation of the Indian republic when the railway and general budgets were clubbed together into one The Union Budget 2017-18 is a slightly controlled budget because the … Read more
In a discussion with NDTV during the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, Power Minister Pijush Goyal reiterated that the entire cabinet remained in dark regarding the demonetisation drive of the Modi government and Arun Jaitley, the finance minister, kept the entire exercise secret and caught them in surprise by this decision. This is the official version … Read more
The shameful liaison between the Indian state and the exploitative corporations is nowhere more visible than in the blatant advertising campaign initiated by the Reliance Corporation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as their brand ambassador. One should also bring to light the fact that Reliance, or rather the Modi regime, launched Reliance Jio officially on … Read more
(This article was first published in March 2016 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only restore the old articles in this section) The Union budget for the FY 2016-17 presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and hailed by the corporate … Read more