Coimbatore: CPI(M) Politburo member Brinda Karat on Thursday came down heavily on Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and some other UPA allies terming them as 'hyprocrites' on various issues, including the petrol price hike. If Mamata was really concerned about the well-being of the people, why was she not withdrawing support to the Centre, Karat asked on the sidelines of a demonstration organised by CPI-M's...
12:20 AM, May 25, 2012
CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat on Tuesday lauded the efforts put in by the External Affairs Ministry over the issue. ...
02:29 PM, Apr 24, 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
Kolkata: Less than a fortnight after drawing flak for her disparaging comments on the Park Street rape victim, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday squarely blamed the Left for the deteriorating law and order condition in West Bengal. She claimed that the 30-year-old woman allegedly raped by a gang of armed robbers on Sunday too was a set-up. Mamata also hit out at the Left over the recent spate of...
08:33 PM, Feb 28, 2012
The grandparents of the children met External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Tuesday to convey their concerns. CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat accompanied them. ...
05:53 PM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: The row involving the custody of the 2 Indian children in Norway continues to drag on. The children's grandparents along with CPM Politburo leader Brinda Karat on Tuesday met External Affairs Minister SM Krishna at his residence in Delhi. A Norway court set March 23 as the date for next hearing in the case that sparked a diplomatic row. The family is trying to step up pressure on...
11:20 AM, Feb 28, 2012
New Delhi: Family members of the parents of two Indian children, who are lodged in a foster home in Norway, along with leaders of political parties on Monday launched a four-day protest demanding that the Norwegian government send the kids back to India immediately. Grandparents of the two children --Avigan and Aishwariya, their family members, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, CPI(M) MP Brinda Karat and CPI leader...
02:40 PM, Feb 27, 2012
The government on Monday sent a special envoy to Norway to discuss the custody row with the Norweigan Foreign Minister. ...
12:20 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: Seven visually impaired candidates who had in 2008 cleared the IAS examination but were denied induction, have finally received their orders following intervention by the Prime Minister, a representative group for persons with disabilities said on day. The National Platform for the Rights of Disabled (NPRD), that had taken up the cases of the nine such candidates, said that while seven of them have received orders, two were...
01:13 PM, Feb 15, 2012
New Delhi: Foreign Minister SM Krishna will be meeting the grandparents of Abhigyan and Aishwarya, the children of the Norway NRI couple Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya, on Tuesday at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi. The children were taken away by Norway's Child Welfare Services in May 2011 on grounds that the parents were not taking care of the children properly. CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat met Krishna early on Tuesday...
11:24 AM, Feb 14, 2012
New Delhi: The CPI(M) on Saturday demanded that India lodge a strong protest with the Norwegian Government and make a strong case in support of the two Indian children, who have been separated from their parents, and bring them back to the country. CPI(M) politburo member Brinda Karat today met President Pratibha Patil along with the grandparents of the children and explained to her the incident. Karat said the President...
08:17 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Brinda Karat said that Lokpal should have the authority to scrap the licenses that are given via corrupt means. ...
04:05 PM, Dec 11, 2011
New Delhi: Even as the Congress chose to stay away, the Left, the BJP and other parties spoke out their stand on the Lokpal Bill, sharing stage with anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare at Jantar Mantar on Sunday. While the political parties flayed the government and the Parliamentary Standing Committee for preparing a weak Lokpal draft, some of them also appealed to Anna and his team to be flexible in their...
01:31 PM, Dec 11, 2011
New Delhi: Accusing Narendra Modi of shielding criminals and victimising whistleblowers, CPM on Wednesday alleged that the Centre was indirectly supporting the BJP government in Gujarat by maintaining a "tacit silence" and not framing a concrete witness protection act. "It is evident Modi is trying to shield the perpetrators and victimise the whistleblowers. The Centre is indirectly supporting this by maintaining a tacit silence and dilly dallying over framing of...
01:22 AM, Nov 17, 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
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