The Election Commission has cautioned the opposition Congress leader Birajit Sinha for making unfounded allegations against Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, sources in the office of Chief Electoral Officer said on Saturday. ...
02:42 PM, Feb 09, 2013
Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy on Sunday shocked many with his choice of words at a party rally where he said that the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has "gone to hell" and would not be able to return from there. Roy used a Bengali slang to indicate that the CPI(M) had lost its spine and gone to hell. ...
10:08 AM, Jan 28, 2013
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has called an emergency high level meeting at Writers' Buildings to review the worsening law and order situation in the state following clashes between Trinamool Congress and Communist Party of India (Marxist) supporters. The meeting is being attended by the state chief and home secretaries as well as the state DGP and senior police officers. ...
03:01 PM, Jan 08, 2013
Veteran CPM leader V S Achuthanandan, who is the prime accused in a land controversy, on Thursday got reprieve when a single-judge bench of the high court quashed the FIR -- but the state government decided to go in appeal. ...
03:23 PM, Dec 06, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Veteran CPM leader P Govinda Pillai passed away in a hospital here after age-related health problems, his family said on Friday. He was 86. Pillai, popularly known as PG, had been admitted to hospital about a week ago. The soft spoken ideologue of the Communist Party of India-Marxist, died in a private hospital late on Thursday. A voracious reader, a popular orator and a very strong writer, PG had...
10:21 AM, Nov 23, 2012
Idukki: The dawn-to-dusk hartal called by CPM in Idukki to protest arrest of party leader M M Mani for his refusal to turn up for a polygraph test in connection with a case registered in the wake of his controversial speech, hit normal life in the high range district on Thursday. Mani was arrested and remanded to judicial custody on Wednesday for rejecting the police notice to undergo brain mapping...
03:21 PM, Nov 22, 2012
Idukki: Senior CPM leader M M Mani was on Wednesday arrested for declining to turn up for a polygraph test as part of the probe in connection with his controversial speech in which he said his party had in the past eliminated some of its political rivals in Idukki district. Mani was arrested from his house at Kunnhithanni near here and was taken to the police station at Nedumkandam. He...
09:18 AM, Nov 21, 2012
Idukki: The Kerala Police on Wednesday served notice on Communist Party of India-Marxist's (CPM) former Idukki district secretary M.M. Mani to appear for a polygraph (lie-detector) test. Mani told media persons here that he would seek legal advice on what he should do next. "I will also speak with my doctor and then decide on what needs to be done," said Mani after receiving the notice. The former Idukki district...
02:52 PM, Nov 14, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Governor H R Bhardwaj has suspended state Information Commissioner K Natarajan for allegedly intervening in the land-gift case involving CPM stalwart V S Achuthanandan. Action against Natarajan, a former DIG of police, was taken on the basis of the recommendation made by the state Government following a police probe which came across evidence to corroborate the charge that the Information Commissioner had urged a police official investigating the...
01:31 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: A day after the CPM wanted the precious jewels and priceless assets of the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple to be made a public possession, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Friday said that it cannot be and the property belonged to the temple only. "This cannot be seen as a public property, instead it is the property of the temple and its devotees. The case is being heard in the apex...
03:33 PM, Nov 09, 2012
New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram: The CPM on Sunday once again pledged support to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu -- though with a safety audit. The move has come as a setback to veteran Kerala leader V.S. Achuthanandan who is against the plant. "Yes, Achuthanandan has taken a different position but there is no question of reviewing our party decision on this issue which was taken at our party congress...
09:20 AM, Oct 15, 2012
Kanhangad: CPM on Tuesday alleged that the ruling Congress led UDF government was trying to destroy state funded Kudumbashree, the women's Self Help Group for poverty alleviation programme. Speaking after inaugurating a party office at Pollakkad near Kanhangad in Kasargod district, CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan alleged that UDF was allergic' towards Kudumbasree from the time it assumed office and was continuing that attitude. By promoting pro-congress 'Janashree mission', government...
05:40 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Kairali TV, backed by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), has declared a net profit of Rs 13.16 crore and has paid Rs 4 crore in taxes, a company official said here on Tuesday. Denying that the channel is in the red, Kairali TV's executive director T R Ajayan said in a statement: "A section of the media is weaving out baseless stories that we are having a financial...
02:01 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Aluva: Opposition Leader V S Achuthanandan on Friday lashed out at senior CPM leader M M Lawrence for continued criticism against him. Making personal remarks against Lawrence, Achuthanandan warned the former not to force his hand to reveal further truths. Lawrence is an individual who admitted his wife and daughter to a mental asylum. His second daughter came to me while I was the Chief Minister seeking help to rescue...
11:43 AM, Sep 22, 2012
Tripunithura: Opposition Leader V S Achuthanandan has criticised the right-wing politicians for the misuse of religion for political gains. He stated that the tendency of communal forces to interfere in the state administration would hamper the spirit of democracy. He was inaugurating the Chathayam day celebrations organised jointly by the Thekkumbagom branch of SNDP Yogam and Sree Narayana Dharmaposhini Sabha here on Friday. The Opposition Leader opined that one of...
12:08 PM, Sep 01, 2012
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