CPI-M fumes at denial of site in Agartala for rally
January 28th, 2012 - 7:21 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, Jan 28 (IANS) Tripura's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Saturday hit out at the union home ministry for its refusal to let them hold a party rally ... Read more...
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Hasina visits Tripura Wednesday to commemorate history
January 10th, 2012 - 1:36 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, Jan 10 (IANS) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina makes a historic border crossing here Wednesday with a 100-member delegation to commemorate the northeast Indian state's role in her ... Read more...
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CPI-M admits failures at all levels in Bengal
October 5th, 2011 - 7:15 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Oct 5 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Wednesday admitted it had failed to read the mood of the people, who voted it out to end its 34-year ... Read more...
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The commissars love their football, disavow ideology
September 2nd, 2011 - 6:03 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Sep 2 (IANS) They may idolise Hugo Chavez. But as Venezuela takes on Argentina in this soccer crazy city, West Bengal's Communist leaders, who ruled the state for 34 ... Read more...
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JNU scholar is Nepal’s new PM (Profile)
August 28th, 2011 - 7:25 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Aug 28 (IANS) A village boy from western Nepal's Gorkha district, that was once also the bastion of Nepal's Shah kings, Baburam Bhattarai, who was elected Sunday as ... Read more...
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Mamata orders probe into Congress workers’ 1970 killing
June 15th, 2011 - 1:04 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, 14 June (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday ordered judicial inquiry into the Sainbari case, in which four Congress loyalists were killed 41 years back allegedly ... Read more...
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Mumbai journalist’s murder touches chord in Nepal
June 12th, 2011 - 4:08 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, June 12 (IANS) Despite its preoccupation with yoga guru Baba Ramdev's protest on one hand and the Gorkhaland movement in eastern India on the other, the daylight killing of ... Read more...
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After 34 years, swearing in the name of god
May 20th, 2011 - 4:17 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, May 20 (IANS) In the first sign of change in West Bengal, most ministers in the new Trinamool Congress-led government Friday took oath of office in the name of ... Read more...
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Lenin replaces Mahatma’s name in Tripura textbook: Congress
April 25th, 2011 - 7:16 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, April 25 (IANS) The Congress Monday charged Tripura's Left Front government with replacing the name of Mahatma Gandhi with that of Lenin in a chapter of a junior school ... Read more...
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91-year-old woman takes on Kerala legislator
April 9th, 2011 - 2:32 pm ICT by IANS
Sherthalai (Kerala), April 9 (IANS) When K.R. Gowri, 91, was first sworn in as a legislator in the first Kerala assembly in 1957 and then as a minister, Sherthalai legislator ... Read more...
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Che’s granddaughter, Guzman’s son invited to Maoist do
December 7th, 2010 - 3:39 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, Dec 7 (IANS) Though he never came to Nepal, slain Cuban revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara remains one of the best-known foreign faces in the Himalayan republic that nursed ... Read more...
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Communist leaders to meet Chinese leaders Monday
October 30th, 2010 - 8:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Indian Communist leaders will meet leaders of the Communist Party of China here Monday as they visit the country to take part at a conference organised by ... Read more...
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Rajnikanth’s daughter Soundarya marries industrialist
September 3rd, 2010 - 7:36 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Sep 3 (IANS) Tamil movie super star Rajnikanth's second daughter Soundarya tied the knot with industrialist Ashwin Ramkumar here Friday.
The wedding was attended by prominent personalities from the movie ... Read more...
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Centre’s wrong policies encouraging military, communalism: AIYF
September 3rd, 2010 - 2:38 pm ICT by ANI
By Jehovah GCoimbatore, Sep 3 (ANI): The All Indian Youth Federation (AIYF) has slammed the Central Government for not tackling militancy, communalism, unemployment and Maoism effectively."The unemployed youth in the country are ... Read more...
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Former CPI-M legislator shot dead in West Bengal (Lead)
June 30th, 2010 - 12:49 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, June 29 (IANS) In an escalation of political violence in West Bengal, former Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) lawmaker Ananda Das was Tuesday shot dead by assailants allegedly close to the ... Read more...
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Nepal PM’s partymen ask him to quit
May 2nd, 2010 - 5:08 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, May 2 (IANS) Nepal's embattled Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal found himself caught in a tightening vice Sunday as his own partymen began a campaign for his ouster even as the ... Read more...
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Opposition to demand statement by PM on phone tapping
April 25th, 2010 - 6:38 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) Monday's parliament session is headed to be stormy as the opposition is planning to corner the government over allegations of telephone tapping of key political leaders ... Read more...
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Why Didi is afraid of Dada (Capital Buzz)
April 11th, 2010 - 2:22 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) It appears no Congress minister dares to talk with West Bengal's Communist leaders in the formidable presence of Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee. ... Read more...
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Global voices join against privatisation, anti-worker policies
March 20th, 2010 - 3:52 pm ICT by IANS
By Alkesh Sharma
Chandigarh, March 20 (IANS) Workers across the world are against privatisation and capitalism and a global policy should be formed to prevent discrimination against workers, said communist leaders from European, ... Read more...
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Communism digs in, with much memorabilia, in Punjab town (With Image)
March 19th, 2010 - 10:49 am ICT by IANS
By Alkesh Sharma
Zirakpur, March 19 (IANS) Marx, Lenin and Che are certainly alive and kicking if one is to go by the accessories, posters, books and magazines on Communist ideology ... Read more...
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No concessions on China’s sovereignity, Dalai Lama envoys told
February 1st, 2010 - 5:35 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Feb 1 (IANS) China will never make any concession on the issue of its sovereignty, Communist leaders Monday told envoys of the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
A statement from the ... Read more...
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Demand for Basu’s autobiography shoots up
January 20th, 2010 - 6:05 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) Demand for former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu's "Memoirs, A Political Autobiography" has shot up dramatically following the Marxist icon's death, booksellers said Wednesday.
The 397-page ... Read more...
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Turnout proves people’s love for Basu: CPI-M
January 19th, 2010 - 8:48 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 19 (IANS) The huge turnout Tuesday proved that the people of West Bengal really loved their former chief minister Jyoti Basu, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) state secretary Biman ... Read more...
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Man who defeated Basu pays rich tributes
January 17th, 2010 - 4:12 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Jan 17 (IANS) The man who handed out Jyoti Basu his only electoral defeat acknowledged Basu's greatness Sunday, saying he was "one of the greatest Communist leaders ever born in ... Read more...
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Yechury condemns attack on IBN news channels
November 22nd, 2009 - 3:13 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Nov 22 (ANI): Communist Party of India (Marxist)'s politburo member Sitaram Yechury has condemned the vandalisation of IBN news channels in Mumbai by the Shiv Sena activists.Interacting with the media ... Read more...
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Stop stimulus, use money to help poor: World’s Communists (Lead)
November 21st, 2009 - 9:06 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) The financial bailout packages by various governments are not radical enough to pull the world out of the economic downturn, but would only help to enlarge the ... Read more...
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World Communist leaders meet in Delhi
November 20th, 2009 - 7:56 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Communist leaders from around the world met here Friday to discuss how to "intensify popular struggles".
The 11th International Meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties is jointly ... Read more...
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Communist leaders from 60 nations to attend Delhi conference
November 16th, 2009 - 5:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Communist leaders from 60 countries will attend the 11th Communist and Workers Parties' International Meeting, to be held here Nov 20-22, a senior communist leader said Monday. ... Read more...
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Nepal leader to seek India’s advice as Maoists cripple government
November 3rd, 2009 - 1:32 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Nov 3 (IANS) The chief of Nepal's ruling party is heading for New Delhi on a week-long visit Tuesday for consultations with Indian leaders after the republic's political parties failed ... Read more...
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Congress slams Maoists, asks parties to fight together
October 28th, 2009 - 8:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 28 (IANS) The Congress Wednesday slammed the Maoists for unleashing "mindless violence" against the common man, whose interests the rebels claim to espouse, and called for all political ... Read more...
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Thousands demonstrate in Yemen demanding ‘independence’
October 6th, 2009 - 11:43 pm ICT by IANS
Sana'a (Yemen), Oct 6 (DPA) Thousands of demonstrators marched in three cities in southern Yemen Tuesday demanding that visiting Arab League chief Amr Mussa support the secession of the south from the ... Read more...
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CPI-M to celebrate birth centenary of EMS, Nripen Chakraborty
September 13th, 2009 - 5:48 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, Sep 13 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) will observe the birth centenary of two legendary communist leaders E.M.S. Namboodiripad and Nripen Chakraborty in an attempt to revitalize leftist ideology ... Read more...
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West Bengal communists form human wall to observe I-Day
August 15th, 2009 - 11:27 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 15 (IANS) Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leaders Saturday formed a human chain here to observe India's 63rd Independence Day.
"We decided to take up this noble initiative of forming a ... Read more...
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Campaigning on for Tamil Nadu by-polls Aug 18
August 13th, 2009 - 5:43 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Aug 13 (IANS) Campaigning by political parties for by-elections in five assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu is in full swing.
By-polls are being held in Bargur, Thondamuthur, Cumbum, Illayangudi and Srivaikundam ... Read more...
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Lalgarh operation: Security forces capture Dharampur
July 1st, 2009 - 8:34 pm ICT by IANS
Lalgarh (West Bengal), July 1 (IANS) Security forces Wednesday established the writ of the state in Dharampur, a former communist hub that was later taken over by the armed Maoists, two ... Read more...
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