New Delhi: With CPM focusing on Left unity, the CPI on Sunday said it would strive to strengthen Left and democratic unity in the country as both Congress and BJP want be in power by "default". The CPI would strive for a "militant" unity to struggle on issues concerning people's livelihood with non-Congress and non-BJP parties. These political and ideological issues would come up for debate at the 21st Congress...
08:39 PM, Mar 25, 2012
New Delhi: With CPI(M) focusing on Left unity, the CPI said on Sunday it would strive to strengthen Left and democratic unity in the country as both Congress and BJP want be in power by "default". The CPI would strive for a "militant" unity to struggle on issues concerning people's livelihood with non-Congress and non-BJP parties. These political and ideological issues would come up for debate at the 21st Congress...
03:00 PM, Mar 25, 2012
New Delhi: In a bid to evolve consensus over the controversial Lokapl Bill, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday met leaders of various political parties with an assertion that his government was committed to an effective Lokpal legislation. Leaders of parties in Rajya Sabha including BJP's Arun Jaitley, BSP's SC Mishra, RJD's Ram Kripal Yadav, SP's Ram Gopal Yadav, NCP'S Tariq Anwar and CPI's AB Bardhan met at the Prime...
12:32 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: CPI stalwart CK Chandrappan, a dominant figure of Indian mainstream Left for the last several decades and former Lok Sabha member, died in a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday, party sources said. He had been undergoing treatment for cancer for the last few months and was admitted to hospital two days back after he suffered an infection. CPI's Kerala state secretary, Chandrappan (77) is survived by wife Bulu...
04:23 AM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: There seems to be no end to the woes of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government. Ever since the alliance stormed back to power in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections its tenure has been marked with allegations of corruption and the Opposition has been claiming that the second term of the Manmohan Singh regime is the most corrupt in the history of India. Even as the UPA...
11:38 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Patna: Flaying the Planning Commission's assessment that a person earning Rs 29 daily should not be deemed as poor, the CPI on Wednesday described the panel as a club of "anti-poor" people. CPI national secretary Atul Kumar Anjaan said it was "ridiculous" that the Planning Commission has described a person earning Rs 29 a day as not poor. "It will be appropriate to describe the commission as a club of...
01:42 AM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: Agitated over fresh poverty line figures, members of Parliament on Wednesday directed their ire against Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia with demands that he be removed. The Plan panel estimates pegging poverty line at Rs 28.65 per capita daily consumption in cities led to uproar in the Lok Sabha and Question Hour was scuttled as the House was adjourned. As soon as the House assembled for...
08:00 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: The UPA was cornered on Monday in Parliament as the Opposition targeted the government over the Rail Budget fiasco and Dinesh Trivedi's resignation as the Railway Minister. The Left Front raised questions saying that a minister resigning while Parliament was in session was not right. CPI(M) leader Basudev Acharya demanded that the government as well as Trivedi reply on his resignation. CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta also demanded the...
11:34 AM, Mar 19, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: A record 85.6 per cent of the electorate voted Saturday in the Piravom Assembly constituency in Kerala, officials said. The by-election follows the death of TM Jacob, the food and civil supplies minister. He was the lone legislator of his Kerala Congress (Jacob), an ally of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF). His son Anup Jacob, 34, is taking on his father's old rival, MJ Jacob of the Communist...
11:24 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Kolkata: Former Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Lok Sabha member Laxman Seth and two of his associates were arrested in Mumbai Saturday in connection with the violent incidents in Nandigram of West Bengal's East Midnapore district in 2007, the police said. "Seth and two other CPI-M leaders Ashok Guriya and Amiya Sahoo were arrested from Mumbai today (Saturday). We are trying to produce them in court and seek transit remand...
05:50 PM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: Even as Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs started their dharna outside Parliament demanding a full roll-back of the railway fares and a financial package for West Bengal, CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat lashed out at the party for "putting the Railways in the ICU". "It is the TMC who has put the Railways in the ICU. The first question Mamata has to answer is regarding the statement made by Dinesh...
10:59 AM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Inflation rose to 6.95 per cent in February because of sharp increase in food prices, especially vegetables and protein-based items. Inflation, as measured by the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), was 6.55 per cent in January. In February last year, it was 9.54 per cent. As per the official data released on Wednesday, food inflation was 6.07 per cent in February against (-)0.52 per cent in January. Pulses turned...
12:34 PM, Mar 14, 2012
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh chief minister-designate and Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav is expected to meet senior Left Front leaders in New Delhi on Tuesday, adding to speculation of the formation of a Third Front. Akhilesh is scheduled to go to the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI(M)) office to invite party General Secretary Prakash Karat for his swearing-in ceremony in Lucknow on March 15. Akhilesh will also meet Communist Party...
11:03 AM, Mar 13, 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: Arrest of a scribe in connection with the bombing of an Israeli diplomat's vehicle was condemned on Friday by CPI which alleged that there was no basis for Delhi Police to book him under such serious charges and the move was to please Israel only. Questioning the manner in which Syed Mohammed Ahmed Kazmi was arrested, CPI General Secretary AB Bardhan said, "Government has made the arrest without...
10:09 PM, Mar 09, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: In a setback to CPI-M veteran VS Achuthanandan, a probe by a Joint Legislature Committee of the Kerala Assembly has found serious irregularities and nepotism in the appointment of his son to a key post when he was the chief minister. The report of the panel, headed by Congress MLA VD Satheesan, was tabled in the state Assembly on Thursday amid protests by LDF members who wanted the opposition's...
03:02 PM, Mar 08, 2012
CHENNAI: In a significant move, AIADMK leaders led by former minister C Ponnian took part in a CPI demonstration here on Tuesday, urging the Centre to back the resolutions passed against Sri Lanka. Ponnian said they were participating in the state-wide demo organised by CPI and like-minded mo-vements as per the orders from Amma (AIADMK Chief J Jayalalithaa).Ponnian went on to say that his party would support CPI general secretary...
10:31 AM, Mar 07, 2012
Chandigarh: Despite attaining absolute majority in Punjab, the Shiromani Akali Dal and its ally BJP lost its vote share in comparison to Congress which failed to leave up to its expectations in the poll results of the 117 member Assembly. The father-son duo of Parkash Singh Badal and Sukhbir Singh Badal succeeded in convincing the Punjab electorate to give 56 seats to the SAD, but they failed to raise the...
07:36 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Imphal: In perhaps the only solace to the Congress government in the state Assembly elections 2012, the Manipur electorate gave a thumping majority to the party, helping it win 42 seats out of 60. The party scored a hat-trick and returned to power in the northeastern state, helped by a fragmented opposition. The Trinamool Congress, part of an 11-party Peoples Democratic Alliance, made an impressive debut winning seven seats, followed...
06:58 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Medinipur: CPI(M) MLA Sushanta Ghosh, facing trial in connection with the recovery of skeletons near his ancestral house at Benachapra, was injured when a man beat him up with a shoe at a local court on Tuesday. Police said the man ran towards him from a slogan shouting crowd near the court and beat up Ghosh with a shoe when the Garbeta MLA reported to the Fourth Additional Session Judge...
04:53 PM, Mar 06, 2012
