New Delhi: The issue of the CAG report on coal block allocation rocked Parliament for the seventh successive day on Thursday with the BJP persisting with its demand for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation but the government pushed through two bills in the Lok Sabha. Uproarious scenes were witnessed in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha after they assembled for the day, with BJP members storming the Well shouting slogans against...
02:56 PM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: As Parliament continues to be paralysed over coal blocks allocation, the Samajwadi Party, Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India(Marxist) and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leaders met on Thursday to discuss ways to break the deadlock. They have decided to seek support from non-Bharatiya Janata Party and non-Congress parties to help Parliament function. Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav called the continuing deadlock in Parliament a...
11:51 AM, Aug 30, 2012
New Delhi: The CPI on Saturday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to "face Parliament" and said the government must own up responsibility for the huge loss to the nation on the coal block allocation issue. "The Prime Minister must face Parliament especially when it is in session. Disruption does not mean that he would not come to the House," party National Secretary D Raja said in New Delhi. He said...
07:09 PM, Aug 25, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Thousands of CPI(M) workers in Kerala on Wednesday laid siege to the government secretariat during a protest that forced Chief Minister Oommen Chandy to reach his office around 5 AM, hours before a Cabinet meeting. In an unusual spectacle at dawn in a state that is too used to bandhs and protests, Chandy and four ministers had to turn up at their offices an hour before the CPI(M) siege...
02:42 PM, Aug 22, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Oommen Chandy vs Ramesh Chennithala; V.S. Achuthanandan vs Pinayari Vijayan. The more things change, the more they remain the same in Kerala politics, with an uneasy calm in place as traditional rivalries continue within the two main groupings, United Democratic Front (UDF) and Left Democratic Front (LDF). For the last three decades and more, the political pendulum has swung between the Congress-led UDF - which is ruling right now...
08:01 PM, Aug 17, 2012
Palakkad: The CPM and the CPI should stop washing dirty linen in public and try to settle differences by talking to each other since the division has only helped the UDF push through anti-people policies, said former Water Resources Minister N K Premachandran. He was speaking to mediapersons here on Monday, along with RSP general secretary A A Azeez MLA and Kovoor Kunjumon MLA, after visiting Nelliampathy on Monday. He...
12:26 PM, Aug 14, 2012
Munnar: After running into controversy again, CPI-M leader MM Mani on Sunday strongly refuted having made a speech two days back in which he purportedly said the party was involved in the murder of an INTUC leader in Idukki district. Mani's denial came a day after Malayalam television channels aired an audio of the speech purportedly made by him at a public meeting at Pathammile near Munnar last week. "This...
02:52 PM, Aug 12, 2012
Kolkata: The CPI(Maoist) central committee has expelled Sabyasachi Panda, stated to be the mastermind behind kidnapping of two Italians in Odisha, for his alleged 'inimical stand' and open criticism of the leadership 'with an evil intention'. Panda, who was in charge of the outfit's Odisha state committee, was termed a 'renegade' by CPI(Maoist) central committee which also said ''In the most abominable, crooked and conspiratorial manner, he betrayed the party...
08:57 PM, Aug 11, 2012
Kolkata: The outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist has expelled its Odisha state organising committee secretary Sabyasachi Panda from the party, accusing him of an "enemy-like opportunistic stand on the outfit as also the movement and leadership". "Our central committee is expelling Sabyasachi Panda from the party and declaring the fact to our party comrades in Odisha, the entire revolutionary masses and the revolutionary camp in our country," the Maoists said...
09:56 AM, Aug 11, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: A senior Kerala Communist Party of India-Marxist leader has been arrested in connection with the murder of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) worker Abdul Shukkoor. CPI-M leader P Jayarajan was arrested by the special police team investigating the Shukkoor murder case. The special team served a notice on Jayarajan to appear before the team at 11 AM on Wednesday for questioning. He was remanded to judicial custody for 14...
12:14 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Mumbai: The Maharashtra unit of CPI on Tuesday sought amendments to the Food Security Bill introduced in Parliament last year. "Since there are some loopholes in the proposed bill, with the possibility that the legislation will infringe upon the rights of state governments, amendments should be made to it," CPI member Prakash Reddy said. He said the Left parties; including the CPI, CPM and Forward Bloc (FB) have been staging...
02:37 AM, Aug 01, 2012
Purulia: Top Maoist leader of West Bengal identified as CPI (Maoist) state committee member Arnab Dam alias Bikram alias Surya, who was arrested from Purulia last week, was produced in court on Tuesday and was remanded in judicial custody till July 31. Dam's lawyer claimed that he was not actively involved in the Maoist operations and was only a theoretical leader. The lawyer also claimed that the seizure list that...
06:21 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Chennai: The Communist Party of India on Monday protested in Chennai against the killing of an Indian fisherman from Tamil Nadu by a US Navy ship off the coast of Dubai last week. In the aftermath of the incident, the US had justified the use of lethal force saying the fishing boat had not heeded warnings and instead charged towards the US ship. The fishermen, however, maintained that the firing...
03:49 PM, Jul 23, 2012
Agra: The Communist Party of India on Sunday said it would stage a sit-in from July 30 till August 3 near Parliament House to oppose price rise, food shortage and the "failure" of the UPA Government to control inflation. "UPA II has failed to check the price rise and control inflation, as a result people are suffering," CPI state secretary Girish told reporters in Agra on Sunday. Price rise, high...
07:40 AM, Jul 23, 2012
Shimla: The Consumer Price Index based inflation for agricultural and rural labourers increased to 8.03 per cent and 8.54 per cent in June, due to rise in prices of essential food commodities including, rice, vegetables and fruits. The Consumer Price Index numbers for agricultural labourers and rural labourers (base 1986-87-100) increased by eight points each to 646 and 648 during the month, respectively from 638 and 640 in May, a...
09:57 PM, Jul 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre is keen on a probe to find out if the violence in the Maruti plant in Manesar has any Maoist link. Though no Naxal link has been found prima facie, official sources said there was a need for a thorough probe to find out the truth into it. Sources said there were intelligence reports of CPI (Maoists) setting up urban bases in different cities, including Gurgaon....
09:35 AM, Jul 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre is keen on a probe to find out if the violence in the Maruti plant in Manesar has any Maoist link. Though no Naxal link has been found prima facie, official sources said there was a need for a thorough probe to find out the truth into it. Sources said there were intelligence reports of CPI (Maoists) setting up urban bases in different cities, including Gurgaon....
08:20 AM, Jul 20, 2012
Purulia: Security forces on Monday achieved a major success in the anti-Maoist operations when they captured a Maoist leader accused of killinga CID inspector and two political leaders. The top Maoist leader of West Bengal identified as CPI (Maoist) state committee member Arnab Dam alias Bikram alias Surya was arrested from Biramdih Railway Station, 15 km from Purulia town, on the West Bengal-Jharkhand border. He was arrested by a joint...
02:32 PM, Jul 17, 2012
New Delhi: The CPI(M) on Monday denounced US President Barack Obama for asking India to allow Wal-Mart to operate in Indian retail trade and asked the government not to succumb to American pressure. The Communist Party of India-Marxist said it "objects to the remarks by Obama that India open the doors to Wal-Mart for retail trade and other American investments in India. "The statement is a brazen attempt to pressurize...
02:23 PM, Jul 16, 2012
Kolkata/New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday night stepped up efforts to drum up support for Hamid Ansari for a second tenure in the post of Vice President, elections to which are scheduled for August 7, as he spoke to Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and CPI leader AB Bardhan. Singh rang up Mamata but there was no official word on what transpired between the two leaders while CPI...
12:26 AM, Jul 12, 2012
