Thiruvananthapuram: Forget Left unity, the two Communist parties in Kerala have been at each other's throats for a while now. It has reached a crescendo with the smaller of the two, the Communist Party of India (CPI) warning "big brother" Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) to immediately stop abusing it. "Don't provoke us, we give you an ultimatum that please stop uttering abuses against us. We will not take it...
12:27 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Pinarayi Vijayan's uninterrupted reign at the top continues, with him being re-elected on Friday as secretary of the party's Kerala unit for the fourth successive time. The election was a mere formality at the last day of the 20th edition of the CPI-M state party conference. It was in 1998, when as minister of power in the E.K. Nayanar government, Vijayan first...
03:16 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Kolkata: The Writers' Building in Kolkata is in the eye of a brewing storm. State Government employees are on a protest after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's government proposed to debar them from forming unions or going on strike. The earlier Left Government had allowed government employees to strike. But the present dispensation says this is simply unacceptable. Labor Minister Purnendu Bose said, "We are of the view that government employees...
08:59 PM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: A 52-year-old extreme athlete from South Africa is running 4000 kms across the country to raise funds for children born with cleft lips. And believe it or not, this man who runs almost a marathon a day, is an asthma patient. David Greir, a celebrity chef from South Africa, in the last 6 years, has run through several countries like, Madagascar, South Africa and China. Always looking for...
09:16 AM, Jan 18, 2012
Tamluk: Claiming that anarchy prevailed in West Bengal in the seven-month rule of the Mamata Banerjee government, former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Friday said that industrialists have turned away their faces from new investment and farmers are not getting right price for their produce. "Anarchy prevails in every field, be it industry, agriculture, electricity or education. Not a single new investment has come during the seventh-month tenure as industrialists...
06:14 PM, Jan 06, 2012
The Trinamool Congress has accused the congress of being hand in glove with the Left. ...
11:39 PM, Jan 05, 2012
The Trinamool Congress has accused the congress of being hand in glove with the Left. ...
10:56 PM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) Chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday lashed out at the Congress. Mamata accused the party of working in tandem with the Left against her party. "The CP(M) and the Congress are blocking the road together. Everyday Congress supporters are abusing me on the streets. But I have never said anything against the PM or Sonia Gandhi and I would never do...
08:56 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday accused the previous Left Front government in the state of indulging in "extreme corruption" and claimed it had hidden several important files. "As each day passes, we are discovering that more files are missing. To hide these files is big crime. In many cases, money had been spent on projects without floating tenders. We are having to conduct audits into it....
06:28 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Kolkata: As the Congress in West Bengal on Tuesday threatened to intensify its agitation over the proposed renaming of Indira Bhavan at Salt Lake, Trinamool Congress Chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged the Congress was colluding with the CPI(M) to attack her party. "In West Bengal, the CPI(M) and the Congress are working together. Our partymen are being attacked at places like Keshpur and Garbeta," Banerjee said...
05:50 PM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Friday indicated that it was unhappy with the way Rajya Sabha Chairperson Hamid Ansari had conducted himself during the last few minutes of the session on Thursday when the Lokpal Bill was being discussed but restrained itself due to respect for the high office. Vice President Ansari, who is ex-officio chairperson of the Upper House, had adjourned the Rajya Sabha stating there was total impasse...
06:58 AM, Dec 31, 2011
New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Thursday debated the Lokpal bill that was passed by the Lok Sabha two days ago. Here are some of the quotes - Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley: "If you are creating history, let us not create bad history. We will be leaving a lot of task for the next generation to do. Let us create an institution which is constitutionally...
08:21 PM, Dec 29, 2011
New Delhi: The Opposition parties came down heavily on the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government for bring in a Lokpal Bill which is "weak", "ineffective" and "unconstitutional" during the debate in the Rajya Sabha and demanded several amendments in the legislation to give it more power. The attack on the UPA was led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and supported by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Communist Party...
04:03 PM, Dec 29, 2011
New Delhi: It's going to be a battle for numbers in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday when the Lokpal Bill is taken up for be debate and voting in the House. For now it seems that allies like the Trinamool Congress and regional parties like the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will play a crucial role. Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday...
07:04 AM, Dec 29, 2011
New Delhi: It's going to be a battle for numbers in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday when the Lokpal Bill will be debated. For now it seems that allies like the TMC and regional parties like the RJD, Samajwadi Party and the BSP will play a crucial role. The Congress leadership is cracking the whip on erring MPs who were absent from the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. It's also trying...
10:18 PM, Dec 28, 2011
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