Who is afraid of Kanhaiya Kumar?

For two-and-half weeks, as Kanhaiya Kumar's Jan Gan Man Yatra opposing the CAA-NPR-NRC makes its way through Bihar, it has come under sustained violent attack.Archana Masih/Rediff.com discovers......

'BJP is unlikely to cross 80 seats'

'The BJP will be wiped out in rural Gujarat.''In urban areas, its tally may come down from 55 of the 60 urban seats it won in 2012 to 35 to 40 seats this time.' In what could perhaps be the first......

Exclusive! Medha Patkar: Land acquisition ordinance will destroy poor

The new ordinance on land acquisition will allow land grabbers to deprive millions, destroy agriculture, horticulture, rivers, forests, tree cover and mangroves to extract minerals as well as......

Amazing PHOTOS of the month: November

We bring you a presentation of some of the best photos from around the world in the month gone by. Members of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers, who are protesting for change in the process......

SEZ concept enormously destructive: Govt report

Special economic zones are nothing but special exemption zones and there is no reason to exempt these from all law. Hence, scrap these, is the recommendation of the Committee on Land Reforms and......

Pranab Mukherjee's Interim Budget speech

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who is also managing the finance ministry, presented the Interim Budget for 2009-10 in Parliament on Monday. Following is the text of the entire Budget......

Posco project: A village under siege

The village has a fence and gates, gates that are manned by a handful of men who scrutinise all visitors. They are not intimidating, just cautious. There is more security inside: a makeshift......

Condition of 349 mn workers 'utterly deplorable'

Over 394.9 million workers constituting 86 per cent of the country's labour force are in the unorganised sector and work under 'utterly deplorable conditions' with 'extremely few livelihood......