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
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
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
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
Thiruvananthapuram: Two days since Left leader TP Chandrashekharan was killed in Kerala there is still no clue about those who were behind the assassination. Sources say some CPI(M) leaders are involved in the killing of Chandrashekharan, which is being seen as the most brutal political assassination that Kerala has seen. Moments after the assassination of Revolutionary Marxist Party leader Chandrashekharan, rumours began that some CPI(M) members had a hand in...
09:46 AM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: The CPM, which had played a crucial role in setting up the Indian Coffee Houses across the country, is now turning a new leaf by coming up with a cool cafe in the capital " the May Day Cafe. Touted as the 'country's first left wing cafe', the cafe would be launched on May Day, thereby adding to its symbolic value. It would be run by CPM's publishing...
09:45 AM, May 01, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has come up with yet another bizarre advice. She is now advising people on what television channels they should watch. Addressing a gathering in North 24 Parganas, she told people to stop watching certain news channels and switch to entertainment channels instead. She told her cadres to avoid some TV channels and listen to music instead. She also criticised a section of the...
08:01 AM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: The controversies surrounding the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal do not appear to be ending. It is now being called the politics of intolerance in the state. However, Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien stood by the party's bizarre new diktat of not mixing socially with the Left. Talking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief, he reiterated his stand. When asked if he would mix socially with a CPM member, Derek...
08:14 AM, Apr 18, 2012
CPI(M) leader Mohammad Salim on Saturday criticised the Trinamool Congress and said the party lacked democractic values. ...
02:25 PM, Apr 14, 2012
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