Beijing: China is set for "sweeping" leadership changes next year as President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao are due to retire, an official media report said without confirming the widely held view that Vice President Xi Jinping would succeed Hu. "Only the murkiest of crystal balls can't foresee that only China is certain to have a new President and Premier," state-run Global Times, which is also the official organ...
02:23 PM, Jan 09, 2012
Moscow: Just 20 years ago, they seemed consigned to the dustbin of history. At Sunday's parliamentary polls, Russia's communists drew students, intellectuals, even some businessmen in forging an opposition to Vladimir Putin's wounded United Russia party. The Communist Party (CPRF) for most Russians evokes images of bemedalled war veterans and the elderly poor deprived of pensions and left behind in a "New Russia" of glitzy indulgence. Large swathes of society...
05:58 PM, Dec 05, 2011
Kolkata: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), leader of the alliance voted out of power in West Bengal, has confessed it was unable to produce ideal Communists. "We could not groom ideal Communist leaders and workers," state CPI-M secretary Biman Bose said after an in-depth analysis of the party-led Left Front's electoral defeat in May. The election, which brought the Trinamool Congress to power, ended 34 long years of Communist...
01:53 PM, Oct 05, 2011
New Delhi: Communist Party of India-Marxist politburo member and chief of its trade union arm CITU, MK Pandhe died at the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in New Delhi a little after midnight on Friday following a cardiac arrest, party sources said. He was 86. Pandhe was admitted to the hospital around 8 pm on Friday after he complained of chest pain. His end came at 12:20 am on Saturday. Born...
08:37 AM, Aug 20, 2011
Havana: Fidel Castro marked his 85th birthday outside of the public spotlight on Saturday, with little fanfare around the aging revolutionary icon who is rarely seen in public these days but still casts a long shadow over Cuban society. There were no announced celebrations of Castro's birthday, though the previous night two dozen musical acts from across Latin America held a concert in his honor. "What we say in the...
12:47 PM, Aug 13, 2011
Jinggangshan: Bracing for key leadership changes, China's 80-million strong Communist Party is getting ready for yet another long-haul with an ideological makeover to avert a Soviet Union-style collapse which spelled doom for communism worldwide. Celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) is going through the phase of "nervous sixties" as it completed 62 years in power, according to some of the party officials. "The Soviet Communist...
07:27 AM, Jun 21, 2011
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It's actually ironic that I am in China! To understand the enormity of the purpose, you have to be born, bred in West Bengal, my ...
12:45 PM, Jun 17, 2011
Vijayawada: In the backdrop of growing demand for introduction of Lokpal Bill by August 15, Communist Party of India leader D Raja on Sunday said that the Parliament should not be bypassed as far as the discussion of the bill is concerned. "Bills are made in parliament but parliament should not be bypassed. If UPA has the will, it should consult political parties and take them into confidence and discuss...
06:49 PM, Jun 12, 2011
Beijing: Chinese movie stars gathered Wednesday to launch a blockbuster movie celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party. The Beginning of the Great Revival traces developments between the 1911 revolution that overthrew imperial rule and the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party on July 31, 1921. It is part of a series of events in China marking the anniversary. It features many of the Chinese film industry's biggest...
08:10 PM, Jun 08, 2011
Kolkata: The Maoists on Saturday said they would consider a proposal for talks with the Mamata Banerjee government if the Chief Minister spelled out her stand on junglemahal. "Immediately after the swearing-in ceremony, Banerjee said she was ready to hold talks to sort out problems in junglemahal, but she did not speak about specific plans," West Bengal state committee members of Communist Party of India (Maoist) Bikram and Bikas said...
07:17 PM, May 28, 2011
Havana: Cuba's Communist Party elected President Raul Castro on Tuesday to succeed his older brother Fidel Castro as head of the country's highest political body and only legal party. Fidel Castro made an unexpected appearance on the last day of the crucial Communist Party congress that also approved sweeping economic reforms. The two brothers, who have rarely appeared together since Fidel Castro fell ill in 2006 and was forced to...
09:53 PM, Apr 19, 2011
Beijing: China's ruling Communist Party is meeting in Beijing to draw up its next five-year plan for the economy. The meeting comes amid renewed scrutiny of human rights in China. The agenda is secret but analysts say that instead of seeking a high rate of economic growth, China’s leaders want to close the gap between rich and poor and between coastal and inland areas. Analysts will also be watching for...
10:19 AM, Oct 16, 2010
Top Maoist leader Azad was killed in an alleged gun battle with police in Andhra Pradesh. ...
10:29 AM, Jul 04, 2010
Task to kill WB CM was entrusted to Kishenji by Maoists' politburo. ...
11:57 AM, Mar 06, 2010
Padmalochan had inaugurated organising committee office of RSS. ...
04:32 PM, Feb 25, 2010
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