Modi visit to Russia:
Reaffirming strong ties of Indian ruling class with Russia

The visit took place at a time when the US is trying its best to build a coalition of powers to isolate Russia. In fact, around the same time as Modi’s visit to Russia, a summit meeting of NATO was being held to condemn Russia and pledge support for Ukraine. Modi’s decision to visit Russia at this time, and as the first state visit of his third time in office, shows the importance that the Indian ruling class places on maintaining and strengthening its relations with its long term ally, Russia

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NATO Summit in Washington:
NATO is the premier weapon of US imperialism’s aggressive warmongering strategy worldwide

From its inception, NATO has been a weapon in the hands of US imperialism to realise its agenda of complete world domination. The end of the Cold War has only made US imperialism and NATO more greedy for absolute power and more aggressive. All countries and peoples who value peace and security, and the freedom of all nations to chart their own course must strongly condemn NATO as an enemy of mankind.

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Economic Notes

Every year, as the time for presenting the Union Budget approaches, there is lot of talk about what should be done with tax rates. Most of this talk refers to direct taxes – namely, the personal income tax and the corporate income tax. Very little is said about the rates of indirect taxes, which constitute the biggest tax burden on the masses of working people.

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Inhuman working conditions of track maintainers of Indian Railways due to huge vacancies

Report by Kamgar Ekta Committee correspondent

In the wake of the on-going agitation of loco-pilots of Southern Railways, the large number of vacancies of loco-pilots has become an important issue. The agitation has created an intense pressure on the Indian Railways as a result of which very recently the Railway Board has announced that more than 16,000 vacancies of Assistant Loco-pilots will be filled up.

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