Kozhikode: Prakash Karat was on Monday re-elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M). Karat, 68, has headed the CPI-M since 2005. He said a new politburo and a central committee was also elected on Monday. ...
02:14 PM, Apr 09, 2012
New Delhi: Two Trinamool Congress (TMC) activists were arrested on Sunday night in the Burdwan double murder case. CID is hopeful to soon crack the murder case of two CPI(M) leaders allegedly by a mob on February 22. The CID arrested Mantu Ghosh and Nabakumar Roy from the Mirzapur area of Burdwan, close to where the murders took place. CID has taken up the case of the killing of former...
04:27 PM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: The CPI(M), which has accused the UPA government of "subterfuge and sabotage" in not allowing voting on Lokpal Bill in Rajya Sabha, on Monday said Trinamool Congress was part of the "orchestration" that helped the government. "They (Trinamool) have been running with the hare and hunting with the hounds. They should have opposed it in the Union Cabinet of which they are a part. They should have opposed...
03:47 PM, Jan 02, 2012
New Delhi: CPI (M) leader Basudeb Acharia on Tuesday advocated that Lokpal should have an independent investigative agency. He said that the government wants to weaken the constitution with this bill. "We attended 3 all-party meetings, we gave many suggestions. If Lokpal does not have its own investigative agency, what will Lokpal do? We will just end up with another piece of dysfunctional body. The government should have open mind,...
04:01 PM, Dec 27, 2011
CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat said that his party wants to ensure that Lokpal has an independent investigation wing. ...
04:31 PM, Dec 21, 2011
New Delhi: Lashing out at the UPA government for hiking petrol prices, the Left parties on Friday asked all their state units to launch nationwide protests saying the move was a major factor responsible for fuelling prices of essential commodities. "Government's deregulation of petrol pricing is responsible for fuelling hike of essential commodities and inflation," the CPI(M) Politburo said in a statement. "The hoax of the pricing according to the...
02:19 PM, Nov 04, 2011
Veteran quiz master and Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Derek O'Brien recently delivered a lecture at Ivy League Yale University on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's ascent to power, her struggling years and what he terms as the people's movement to oust a Communist government that ruled the state for over three decades. IBNLive:The communists had been in power in West Bengal for decades. How did your party take...
11:35 AM, Oct 15, 2011
CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury on Sunday said that Narendra Modi's fast was tactic to distract attention from the Supreme Court judgment which is actually a step ahead ...
02:27 PM, Sep 18, 2011
CPI (M) leader Brinda Karat slammed the Trinamool Congress saying that if they were honest and not just political grandstanding, they should take a decision that they are against the deregulation of prices and demand a reversal of it. ...
02:19 PM, Sep 16, 2011
Chennai: AIADMK's ally CPI-M on Tuesday described as barbaric, the police firing at Paramakudi on Sunday, in which seven people were killed and said it would stage state-wide protest on Saturday to demand action against the guilty police officials. The police could have averted untoward incidents if they had anticipated the situation and planned accordingly, CPI(M) state unit secretary G Ramakrishnan said in a statement. While Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has...
09:47 PM, Sep 13, 2011
Kolkata: Months after forming the West Bengal government by defeating the communists, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has received an invitation from Harvard University to give a lecture on the politics and culture of the state, officials said. Sources close to Banerjee said the formal invitation from the hallowed institution was received at the chief minister's secretariat on Saturday. Banerjee has been requested to speak on either the 'Culture and Politics...
06:13 PM, Sep 04, 2011
New Delhi: Former national security adviser MK Narayanan on Sunday came out in support of the UPA government saying that they were serious about extraditing 26/11 accused David Coleman Headley. He also told CNN-IBN that a chargesheet against Headley will be filed soon. Slamming criticism from the Opposition, Narayanan said that he could not comment on communications which took place between US officials with regard to Headley. "Ask these questions...
05:14 PM, Sep 04, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: After his controversial comment on the head of Travancore royal family, CPI(M) leader VS Achuthanandan has deplored the adoration of erstwhile princes and princesses six decades after Independence. "Even politicians and ministers speak in a ceremonial language of respect and fear when they address royal family members. This shows their slave mentality," he said. He was addressing a seminar on 'Democratic Kerala and treasures of the Padmanabhaswamy temple' organised...
05:10 PM, Aug 28, 2011
New Delhi: CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury on Saturday spoke in Rajya Sabha and said he has met Team Anna and discussed the three conditions - inclusion of lower bureaucracy, Lokayuktas in all states and citizen's charter for public grievances. "We must be able to make out difference between the civil society and the uncivil society, " said Yechury. Commenting on the time that has been spent on the Jan...
03:28 PM, Aug 27, 2011
Kolkata: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Sunday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of misleading the masses by making false promises during her stint as railway minister and felt that she is still pursuing the politics of gimmicks in the state. "For two years she went on laying one foundation stone after another. Before the (April-May) assembly polls she started claiming repeatedly that she has made provision...
07:46 PM, Aug 21, 2011
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