After roughly seven and half years in office with his domestic popularity at an all-time low, his party the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q) dysfunctional, his cabinet deprived of its ministerial authority—all indications are that Musharraf is here to stay.

The Dr. Fakhruddin led Care Taker Government (CTG) has been sworn in to state power. Some positive reaction has been created after the government’s nullification of the farcical ‘Blue Print Election’.

The KVPS (Struggle Committee Against Caste Discrimination) agitation seeking the Andhra Pradesh government’s active intervention for propagating and enforcing dalit rights in the state was a huge success.

Several mass organisations including AIDWA, AIKS, CITU, DYFI and SFI along with activists of the India FDI Watch held a militant protest demonstration in Delhi on February 22, 2007 against the visit of Wal-Mart officials to India to sign the Bharti-Wal-Mart deal.

Karl Marx began writing on India in 1853 as a London correspondent of the New York Daily Tribune, a newspaper with the largest circulation in America at the time.

The industrial policy of the Bengal Left Front government is meant to accelerate development of the state – the rural poor in particular – and it will benefit from the rapid strides made in the realm of industrialisation.

The crisis-ridden political situation in Bangladesh has reached from one extreme to another extreme. On January 11, last, President Yajuddin Ahmed declared a state of Emergency in the country banning all open activities on the political and trade Union fronts, proclaimed censorship on news media, and also deployed the army all over the country.

What we know as the largest anti-colonial uprising anywhere in the world in the 19th century, and the only widespread armed revolution in the sub-continent’s history, encompassed a series of actions that began with a Mutiny of soldiers in Dumdum, West Bengal, in January 1857, and continued into 1859, spreading across north, north-western and central provinces.

The Revolt of 1857 was born out of various features ranging from the British policy of conquest and expansion to the colonial exploitation of India. Geographically speaking, it affected north-western, north and central India.

The Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) along with other left forces of the country including the 5-Left Party, Gono Mukti Andolon organized a ‘Red Flag March’ on the 11th of January in the capital opposing the plans to stage a farcical election.

There has been extensive coverage on the stand of the Left parties on the current special economic zone (SEZ) policy of the government in these columns.

We have consolidated the success of the Left Front government set up in 1977, and we must give it a legal characteristic. Today 78 per cent of the land in Bengal is with the marginal farmers. There is no parallel instance in the whole of the country.

To assuage international concerns over cross border filtration into Afghanistan, the Pakistani government has announced a series of measures.

The first week of January has a special tryst with India’s history. This significance would be as valid in any year, but it assumes an added import in 2007.

Lies are uttered with impunity. Misinformation is spread around without fear of recrimination. Untruth is bandied about with alacrity. A brief narration of the story so far may not be out of place.

the recapture of state power by BNP-Jamat led 4-party alliance in The January 22nd elections will not only reestablish the unlimited plunder and misrule in the country, but will also enhance the danger of a government led and dominated by Jamat-e-Islami, which they have already declared to be their aim to be achieved by 2012.

The dispute over the governments decision to appoint ambassadors in 14 diplomatic missions and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) seemed to be intensifying today with the leaders of the ruling seven-party alliance (SPA) engaging in claims and counterclaims over the cabinet decision.

The two Houses of the US Congress have now passed the Hyde Act, which is going to be the basis for the final version of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal.

Smiling behind her desk, school teacher Sabita Adhikari is thrilled to see all 40 of her fourth grade students in class. "Nobody is absent anymore. It's because children feel safe to travel from their villages to attend class," said Adhikari.

The decision to deploy the Army nationwide on the lame excuse that the situation requires “law and order,” will only make the country's political scenario more difficult and deepen the existing crisis.