Hyderabad: The CPI on Thursday demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reply to charges of irregularities in allocation of coal blocks instead of evading an answer over the issue. "The CAG report submitted to Parliament says that the losses incurred by government due to the allocation of coal blocks to private companies is higher than even the 2G scam. The CAG said the coal blocks were allotted when the portfolio...
05:05 AM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Kerala Police on Monday registered a case of murder against CPM leader MM Mani after his remark that the CPM had a history of killing its political rivals. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said that Mani's statement will be probed. Meanwhile, a case of murder, abetment to murder and concealing information has been filed against the Idukki district leader. Sources say that the CPM will deal with...
05:00 PM, May 28, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala police have registered a case against CPM leader MM Mani after his controversial speech about the alleged killings of rebels within the party. The police have registered a case of murder, abetment to murder and concealing information. Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy had said the CPM leader's statement would be probed. CPM leader MM Mani, who is considered close party state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, alleged that the...
10:27 AM, May 28, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Former Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan has hit back denying that political rivals were eliminated in the CPM during his term as the state secretary. This came after party leader MM Mani, who is considered close party state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, alleged that the CPM had killed political rivals in the past and would continue to do so. The party is scrambling to limit the damage caused by its...
08:45 AM, May 28, 2012
Mumbai/Thiruvananthapuram: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asked the Kerala CPI-M to explain the controversial speech of Idukki District Secretary MM Mani, where he stated that there had been instances of the Left eliminating its political rivals. Mani, at a public meeting at Thodupuzha in Idukki district on Saturday evening, reminded his audience of how some of the rivals of the party...
03:55 PM, May 27, 2012
Kolkata: The CPI(M) on Saturday carried out a road blockade across Kolkata, bringing the traffic to a grinding halt, in protest against the fuel price hike. The youth wing of the party, Democratic Youth Federation of India, organised 'chakka jams' at major intersections across the city. The Left parties are allegedly holding a six-day protest, which will culminate in rallies on May 31. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is also...
05:33 PM, May 26, 2012
New Delhi: With the steepest ever hike in petrol prices, the Left parties on Wednesday strongly opposed the move and called upon their units to immediately launch "powerful" protest actions all over the country. "It is a cruel blow on people who are already suffering from severe price rise. The Left parties have called upon all party units to immediately organise powerful protest actions," CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat said....
08:09 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Left Front met in the national capital on Wednesday to decide on their choice of a Presidential candidate. But they have decided to wait for the UPA government to announce their candidate first before taking a decision on who to support. Presidential hopeful PA Sangma met CPM Politburo leader Prakash Karat on Tuesday to gather support but the CPI says supporting Sangma at this stage is tantamount...
03:25 PM, May 23, 2012
CPI's D Raja said that the Indian economy and security are both in shambles and that the UPA government has no reason to celebrate. ...
08:59 AM, May 23, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: In an emotional post on his blog on his birthday, Malayalam superstar Mohanlal has said he feels scared to live in a place where people kill or "hire goons" to eliminate fellow-beings. Referring to the brutal murder of Revolutionary Marxist leader TP Chandrasekharan at Onchiyam in Kozhikode district on May 4, he wondered if Kerala was turning into an asylum. In the note titled 'Ormayil Randu Ammamar (Thinking of...
03:06 PM, May 22, 2012
A furious Mamata Banerjee walked out of CNN-IBN's show when confronted with questions about the arrest of Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra and increased rate of crime against women in her state. ...
04:39 PM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: Factional fight in the CPI(M)'s Kerala unit flared up yet again on Sunday with the Leader of the Opposition VS Achuthanandan threatening to quit. In a letter addressed to party supremo Prakash Karat, Achuthanandan asked for a leadership change in the state. He also asserted that "criminalisation of politics" could not be accepted. The move came against the backdrop of a long-drawn rivalry between Achuthanandan and the State...
03:21 PM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: During her interaction with Kolkata's students and others on CNN-IBN, West Bengal Chief Minister bristled at every question that brought up the issue of intolerance and insensitive statements from the authorities. She branded most of these as 'Maoist' or 'CPI(M)' questions. However, two specific questions incensed her to a point where she openly accused the questioners " both of them university students " of being 'Maoists' and 'CPI(M)...
02:23 PM, May 20, 2012
A furious Mamata Banerjee walked out of CNN-IBN's show when confronted with questions about the arrest of Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra and increased rate of crime against women in her state. ...
12:02 PM, May 20, 2012
CPI-M leader Mohd Salim says democracy means dialogue, discussion, debateand not domination. In a TV show, there will be questions and not all will be according to one's liking. ...
02:37 PM, May 19, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday stormed out of a CNN-IBN show on one year of Trinamool Congress rule, after accusing the audience, which consisted of students, to be Maoists and CPM cadre. The Trinamool Congress chief lost her cool and stormed out of the interactive TV session when members of the audience questioned her on the arrest of Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra and increased rate...
07:30 AM, May 19, 2012
New Delhi: Had internet been there, the Emergency of 1975 would have been a "fiasco", said Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley on Thursday as the Upper House of Parliament took up a debate on a motion to annul a set of government's rules on internet. A motion to annul the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules, 2011, moved by P Rajeeve of the Communist Party of India-Marxist...
04:07 PM, May 17, 2012
Washington: Terming her trip to Kolkata as remarkable, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was all praise for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee saying despite being a woman, she successfully ended 34-year-old Left rule in the state. Hillary was on a 3-day visit to India from May 7. This was the first-ever visit by a US Secretary of State to Writers' Building to hold a meeting with a chief...
10:33 AM, May 11, 2012
Asansol: Former Asansol Mayor and CPIM MLA Bamapada Mukherjee's son Arpan Mukherjee was shot dead on Thursday morning. The incident happened at the Burnpur stadium in Asansol in West Bengal. Arpan had gone for his morning walk when some people came and shot several bullets at him. He was taken to the IISCO hospital where he was declared brought dead. ...
09:16 AM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: India's decision to defer the implementation of the General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR) by one year "is a meek surrender to finance capital ... and the US", the CPI(M) said on Tuesday. The decision on GAAR "and diluting many of its provisions is a meek surrender to finance capital, MNCs and the US administration", the Communist Party of India (Marxist) said. "The US Treasury Secretary had personally lobbied with...
05:57 PM, May 08, 2012
