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Concerns expressed during the final three days hearing on petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Electoral Bond Scheme case were too serious to be resolved immediately, and hence the Bench hearing the case decided not to announce the verdict instantly at the conclusion of hearing on November 2, but reserved it. In course of hearing the issue of political funding in India was found to be more complex that it was previously presumed.

Nikhil Chakravartty, a pioneering figure in Indian journalism for more than four decades of the last century, is being deeply missed by sections of the media fighting hard to protect the hard-won freedom of the press against the onslaughts of the Narendra Modi government. In the second half of the twentieth century, NC, as Nikhilda was known, was the father figure of the movement for press freedom launched by various Indian journalist organisations. Whether it was Bihar Press Bill or the restrictions during the Emergency era from 1975 to 1977, or in the case of the Defamation Bill during Rajiv Gandhi era in 1989, NC always led from the front, along with other luminaries like Kuldeep Nayar, H K Dua, S Nihal Singh. Right now, at the end of 2023, the independent media is under severe attack once again, as evidenced in the case of NewsClick, many of us are sorely missing NC's stalwart leadership of those trying days.

Since the outset of Israel’s war on Gaza, the Israeli government has been severely ramping up its crackdown on domestic dissent. Activists, members of academia, and ordinary citizens are getting hit with doxxing, job terminations, threats and arrests — especially members of Israel’s Palestinian minority.

BHOPAL: In Madhya Pradesh both Congress and BJP have found themselves in embarrassing position. For the Congress embarrassing position was caused when reports started appearing in media about the serious difference between Kamal Nath, chief of the state Congress and Digvijaya Singh who is regarded as the most important decision maker in the state Congress. Reports indicated that both were not on talking terms. The report took such a serious turn that Congress national president summoned both Kamal Nath and Digvijaya Singh to Delhi to verify the correct position and if so they should resolve their differences.

Significant segments of the non-Communist Western Left see the developing contradiction between the United States and China in terms of an inter-imperialist rivalry. Such a characterisation fulfils three distinct theoretical functions from their point of view: first, it provides an explanation for the growing contradiction between the US and China; second, it does so by using a Leninist concept and within a Leninist paradigm; and third, it critiques China as an emerging imperialist power, and hence by inference, a capitalist economy, which is in conformity with an ultra-Left critique of China.

Hezbollah Chief Hassan Nasrallah was on Friday set to roll out a path for the destruction of Israel. The spearhead of Iran’s “axis of resistance”, Hezbollah along with Hamas have been plotting Israel’s obliteration for decades. But with Hassan Nasrallah ready to break his silence after the October 7 Hamas, Iran believes the Israelis would be left quaking in their bomb-shelters for the first time since October 7. The hubris inflicting the “axis of resistance” is unbelievably astounding. The confidence also.

China's position on the Gaza conflict has left Israel disappointed. As Israeli forces have carried out airstrikes and ground operations in response to Hamas' early October attack, Beijing has consistently accused Israel of exceeding the bounds of self-defence in its retaliation. Furthermore, China vetoed a U.S.-led United Nations resolution that reaffirmed the "inherent right of all states."

Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, by seeking to make communal capital out of the bomb blasts at a Christian group gathering in Kalamassery in Kerala, has exposed the vicious nature of the campaign the BJP-RSS circles are conducting regarding Israel’s war on Gaza.

Israel has reinforced its air defences in the Red Sea region using Navy missile boats due to multiple missile and drone attacks by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, the army announced on Wednesday. The deployment of these vessels took place on Tuesday, as it was deemed necessary in response to the situation. This move is part of heightened defence measures in the area, following an incident where a missile and two drones were launched from Yemen towards Israel.

It was the largest mass involvement in the world that was engaged in Freedom struggle in our country, except the rightist forces. They had no share in it. Nor did they have any share in strengthening the secular democracy borne out of the freedom struggle or in the national reconstruction. And yet, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in his speech on October 24, once again evaded all the vital questions that his organisation faces – Why did RSS always keep away from the national movement? What role did it play in the Partition of India and in the communal violence that ensued? And why did it play a divisive politics all through its existence?