Beijing: India is ready to write a new chapter of its relationship with China and the two countries should align their positions in many areas despite differences, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said on the eve of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to India. "This visit is special because it is the first visit abroad by the Chinese premier since he assumed office in March. The relationship between our two countries are now sound and good," Khurshid told Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua in an interview on Saturday.
Khurshid believed the two neighbouring countries, despite their differences, have a lot in common and should "align their positions in many areas." "India is ready to write a new chapter of our relationship with China," he said. The upbeat tone is shared by Sitaram Yechury, a senior leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and a member of the upper house of the Indian parliament. "This will be a very important visit for India. It will not only strengthen but also multiply the ties between the two countries," said Yechury, noting that the two countries are registering enviable growth rates while many other economies are struggling in recession or slowdown.
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03:05 AM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wants to know why Delhi University was "in a hurry" to extend the three-year bachelor's degree programme to four years and will get the matter examined, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said on Tuesday. Singh assured a delegation of Left and other MPs that he would "get the matter looked into," Yechury told reporters here after the meeting in Parliament. When the delegation submitted a...
08:40 PM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: CPI(M) on Tuesday demanded sacking of Law Minister Ashwani Kumar after Supreme Court observations against the government in the coalgate and asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to place facts before the nation. "Supreme Court's scathing remarks regarding the sharing of the CBI's coalgate report with the Law Minster has made his continuance in office totally untenable. The Law Minister must resign or be removed from office forthwith," CPI(M)...
04:58 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Vijayawada: CPM politburo member Sitaram Yechury said in Vijayawada on Sunday that the UPA government should reveal the names of those involved in the coal scam. "The government should reveal the names of the people involved in the coalgate scam. The resignation of either Prime Minister Manmohan Singh or Law minister Ashwani Kumar would not serve any purpose unless names of the people involved in it come out," Yechury said....
12:14 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: The shock over gruesome rape and brutality of a five-year-old girl on Monday resonated in the Rajya Sabha with members cutting across party lines pressing for stern action, including death penalty, to deal with such crimes even if it needs a relook at the new anti-rape law. The House took up an impromptu discussion on the issue during which members also suggested an all-party meeting to find ways...
07:18 PM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Sitaram Yechury on Sunday said his party is open to discussing the possibility of death penalty for rapists. "This is a very serious matter. We are willing to discuss and consider this because what happened in this Delhi rape case is gruesome," he said, to a query if CPI-M agreed with Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj's demand for death penalty for...
04:55 AM, Apr 22, 2013
New Delhi: BJP leader Sushma Swaraj's demand for death penalty to child rapists on Sunday got the backing of CPI(M) which said it was open to the idea. "We are willing to discuss and consider this because what happened in this Delhi rape case is gruesome. There is something seriously wrong in the society and there is no fear of the law," CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury told reporters outside Parliament...
03:31 PM, Apr 21, 2013
CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat wrote a letter to the President against the Governor's statement condemning alleged violence by Left parties and seeking an apology for the attack that took place in the capital. ...
08:17 PM, Apr 11, 2013
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Thursday said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) searches at Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) leader MK Stalin's residence came within 24 hours after the party withdrew support to the UPA government and claimed it was a "clear signal" to the parties supporting the ruling dispensation. Senior party leader Sitaram Yechury also termed the agency as "Congress Bureau of Investigation". ...
08:35 PM, Mar 21, 2013
CPM leader Sitaram Yechury said it is not right to order an independent nation's probe into the affairs of Sri Lanka. "No independent country can interfere in the affairs of another sovereign nation. Just last week we condemned Pakistan Assembly's resolution on Afzal Guru's hanging," he said. ...
03:58 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The return of the CPI(M)-led Left Front in Tripura and Forward Bloc wresting the Nalhati seat from Congress in West Bengal reflects "re-emergence" of the Left parties, senior CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said on Thursday. "We congratulate the people of Tripura to have given us two-thirds majority for the seventh Left Front government in the state and sixth in a row," he told reporters when his reaction was sought on...
04:03 PM, Feb 28, 2013
CPM leader Sitaram Yechury has said that the vote on FDI in Parliament revealed the hypocrisy of political parties BSP, SP and the DMK. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Yechury insisted that the vote revealed the instability in Indian politics and shattered investor confidence. Below is the transcript of the interview. Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to the Devil's Advocate. Did the government outsmart the opposition over FDI...
08:20 PM, Dec 09, 2012
New Delhi: CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury has accused the UPA government of using unfair means to defeat the Opposition's motion against bringing FDI in retail. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Yechury charged the government of bribing its way to secure a majority against the motion. Below is an excerpt of the interview: Karan Thapar: Gurudas Dasgupta, who is the CPI leader in the Lok Sabha, he said...
07:29 AM, Dec 09, 2012
Bhubaneswar: CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury on Saturday said that the Trinamool Congress, which has announced moving a no-confidence motion against the UPA government, "stated something and did something else". "The track record of TMC has been such that they say something and do another thing. So till something happens tangibly, we won't be able to decide," CPI(M) politburo member and MP Sitaram Yechury said. "If something like that happens...
02:13 AM, Nov 18, 2012
New Delhi: With Congress forming a panel headed by Rahul Gandhi for the next Lok Sabha poll preparation, CPI(M) on Friday said the general election could be advanced as the ruling party would want to "cut their losses" in major states where it is in power. "Their (Congress) house in not in order. All the states where they have more MPs are in a state of crisis, like in Andhra...
02:51 AM, Nov 17, 2012
New Delhi: From Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wife Gursharan Kaur to Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi to celebrities like Nandita Das and Imtiaz Ali, the Dawat-e-Walima (wedding reception) of star couple Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor here Thursday saw the who's who from politics and Bollywood in their finery. Dressed in elegant sherwanis and colourful ghararas, lehengas and saris, some of the country's noted personalities attended the grand event,...
11:54 AM, Oct 19, 2012
Thane: CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday said the country needs a change in policies and not the government. "By just changing the government the problems will not be solved. What is needed is change in the policies that can go a long way in the interest of the country and its people," Yechury said, after addressing a tribals' rally in Talasari taluka of Thane district. The country is presently...
01:54 AM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: With the political battle lines clearly drawn for the next Lok Sabha elections, the Left Front on Thursday asked Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to take the lead in forming a Third Front to challenge the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance and the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance. During a protest rally taken out jointly by the Left Front and the Samajwadi Party in New Delhi on...
06:03 PM, Sep 20, 2012
Agartala: Frightened by the economic growth of China, the US is planning to deploy over half of its naval fleet in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea, CPI(M) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury said on Saturday. "America has become frightened by the economic growth of China and decided to deploy 60 per cent of its naval fleet in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea to deal with China," Yechury...
01:23 AM, Sep 02, 2012
New Delhi: CPI(M) on Thursday said it would decide its strategy on the coal block allocation issue on the basis of a statement Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may make in Parliament on the matter. Unlike the principal opposition BJP, CPI(M) has demanded a clarification from Singh after CAG said the coal block allocations by the government had led to extending undue benefits of Rs 1.86 lakh crore to private parties....
04:56 PM, Aug 23, 2012
