Bangalore: The Centre was addressing two issues over which some states have opposed the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) and the row would be resolved, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said. A majority of state chief ministers had accepted NCTC and some other chief ministers have reservations over two issues saying it would infringe upon the states' powers, he told reporters in Bangalore. "Some chief ministers have...
01:41 AM, Jul 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that the Presidential reference in the 2G spectrum case to review the apex court's order cancelling 122 licences was not maintainable. The CPIL said that the review of the Supreme Court's verdict in the 2G scam was not permissible by way of a Presidential reference. The Attorney General for India, however, argued that the apex...
02:26 PM, Jul 10, 2012
New Delhi: The CPI(M) has shared its views on the upcoming Vice Presidential election with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who called CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat to discuss the matter. "He (Singh) spoke to me about three days ago. He wanted my opinion and I gave my opinion on the matter," Karat told PTI here. Though some names are understood to have been discussed during the telephone conversation, Karat refused...
02:24 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Ludhiana: The Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) have decided to abstain from voting in the Presidential poll as the economic policies of the Congress led UPA-II government were allegedly anti-people. Stating that both the CPI and RSP would not vote, CPI general secretary Sudhakar Reddy asserted, "the author of the economic policies was Pranab Mukherjee. The wide chasm created between the rich and poor...
07:55 PM, Jul 07, 2012
Kolkata: At a time when relations have soured with its ally over the presidential polls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday accused Communist Party of India (Marxist) of trying to drive a wedge between the Trinamool Congress and the Congress and said that her party would not fall into the trap. Amidst repeated interruptions while replying to the debate on the budgetary demands for grants for the Home...
07:52 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Kozhikode: In a significant development, police on Friday took into custody a prominent district leader of the CPI(M) in connection with the probe into the murder of Marxist rebel and RMP leader TP Chandrasekharan. According to police, P Mohanan, CPI(M)'s Kozhikode district secretariat member, was taken into custody from Quilandy near Kozhikode and was taken to the camp office of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) at Vatakara. His wife KK...
01:05 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Communist Party of India Marxist(CPI-M) in Kerala, which is going through turbulent times, on June 24 expelled senior leader and former legislator Gopi Kottamurikal on grounds of moral misconduct. The decision was taken at the party's state secretariat meeting in the morning and ratified at a state committee meeting later, said top CPI-M sources. The allegation against Kottamurikal, 64, were of moral misconduct. The controversy erupted last year...
11:44 AM, Jun 25, 2012
Kolkata: Young CPM leader Prasenjit Bose quit the party protesting against the Politbureau's decision to back UPa's Presidential candidate Pranab Mukherjee. Bose said that the move to support Pranab was a 'grave error'. In an open letter, Bose said, "I protest against the decision by the Polit Bureau to support the candidature of Pranab Mukherjee. I consider this to be a grave error which will harm the party and disturb...
10:18 AM, Jun 23, 2012
New Delhi: Left parties were on Thursday divided on the Presidential election with CPI(M) and Forward Bloc deciding to support UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee while CPI and RSP opting to abstain from the voting. The four parties could not arrive at a consensus at an hour-long meeting attended by top leaders of the parties, including Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury (CPI-M), AB Bardhan (CPI), TJ Chandrachoodan (RSP) and Debabrata Biswas...
06:38 PM, Jun 21, 2012
Communist Party of India (Marxist) will vote for UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee while Communist Party of India (CPI) will abstain. ...
05:26 PM, Jun 21, 2012
Agartala: Eight months ahead of the crucial assembly polls in the state, the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist(CPI-M) on June 15 retained the Nalchar seat by increasing its victory margin from the previous polls. "CPI(M) candidate Tapan Chandra Das, who secured 18,001 votes, defeated Congress nominee Dwijendralal Majumder, who got 13,224 votes, by a margin of 4,777 votes," returning officer Sankar Chakraborty told IANS on phone. The CPI-M's victory margin...
04:13 PM, Jun 15, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Dealing a further blow to CPI-M, ruling UDF in Kerala on June 15 wrested the Neyyattinkara Assembly seat from it in the hotly contested by-election. Congress candidate R Selvaraj defeated CPI(M)'s F Lawrence by a comfortable margin of 6,334 votes in the June 4 bypoll whose outcome has come as a morale-booster to the one-year old Oommen Chandy Ministry. Selvaraj had resigned as CPI-M member of the assembly in...
10:48 AM, Jun 15, 2012
New Delhi: The CPI on Thursday said it favoured a Dalit woman as the next President of India, but did not spell out any name for the top Constitutional post. Top CPI leader AB Bardhan said Congress or UPA have not spoken with the Left parties or come out with any name for the Presidential elections. "Mahatma Gandhi has said one good thing...among many other good things that a Dalit...
08:05 PM, Jun 14, 2012
Kolkata: The Left parties will decide their stand on the presidential poll issue only after the UPA formally announced its candidate. "Left parties are ready. As soon as they will declare the name of the candidate (for the presidential poll), the four parties (CPI(M), CPI, RSP and Forward Bloc) will hold a meeting and decide their stand," CPI(M) Politburo member and the Left Front chairman Biman Bose. Meanwhile, Union Finance...
05:19 PM, Jun 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Left on Wednesday rejected the candidature of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee for the presidential poll, which were proposed by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh. The Left also said that it won't support any candidate proposed by the Congress and its allies. "We are opposed to any candidate put up by the Congress and its...
08:52 PM, Jun 13, 2012
Chennai: Voting in the by-election for the Pudukottai assembly constituency began at 8 a.m. on Tuesday. The by-poll in Pudukottai, 350 km from here, was necessitated following the death of CPI legislator S.P. Muthukumaran in a road accident in April. It would be a straight fight between the ruling AIADMK and DMDK, with DMK and others boycotting the polls. The DMK had charged that the opposition parties will not get...
11:44 AM, Jun 12, 2012
Kolkata: Former Communist Party of India-Marxist(CPI-M) parliamentarian Anil Basu, who had acquired infamy for his lewd comments against Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, has been expelled on the charge of "grievous indiscipline and anti-party activities". The decision to expel Basu from the party comes after he was slapped a three-month suspension for indulging in corruption and nepotism. A defiant Basu, during his suspension period had called a media conference with...
03:57 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Kolkata: Despite a controversy ridden first year in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress swept the civic polls on Tuesday. It has won four of the six municipalities that went to the polls - Panskura, Dhupguri, Naihati and Durgapur. The Congress and Left have come in second with one municipality each. The Congress has won Coopers Camp, the Left has won Haldia. The Left Front captured 15 out of 26 wards...
01:42 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Kolkata: The results of the civic polls held in six municipalities in West Bengal have slowly started coming in. The Trinamool Congress has won Panskura, Dhupguri and Naihati and was leading in Durgapur. Meanwhile, the Left has won Haldia and the Congress has won Cooper's Camp. The polls are a big test for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as these are the first major elections after the 2011 Assembly...
11:21 AM, Jun 05, 2012
Kolkata: Six municipalities across West Bengal are going to polls on Sunday. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Congress are contesting separately in these polls. The civic polls are a testing ground for both parties for the larger panchayat elections next year. The virtual split in the alliance was attributed to bitter relations between Congress and Trinamool Congress which jointly fought the 2011 Assembly polls. Congress alleged that its candidates...
11:22 AM, Jun 03, 2012
