Hardcore Maoist held in Delhi (Lead)
June 7th, 2012 - 7:56 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) A hardcore Maoist, who took part in around 200 attacks on security forces in Jharkhand, was arrested here, Delhi Police said Thursday. He was also ... Read more...
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On May Day, trade unions at crossroads (Comment)
May 1st, 2012 - 2:53 pm ICT by IANS
Even as trade unions the world over are celebrating May Day with rallies, holidays and discussions, questions are being asked about the role of labour outfits in the changed liberal ... Read more...
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Marx becoming relevant again: Tariq Ali
April 10th, 2012 - 3:09 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) Twenty-one years after the fall of the East Bloc, Karl Marx is becoming relevant to students of politics, economics and modern history across the world ... Read more...
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Marx and Engels not untouchables: Mamata
April 9th, 2012 - 11:16 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 9 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday said her government did not regard Karl Marx or Frederich Engels as "untouchables", in the backdrop of a ... Read more...
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Trimming ‘excess’ of Marxism in favour of globalisation (West Bengal Newsletter)
April 8th, 2012 - 1:41 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 8 (IANS) Statues of Karl Marx and his lifelong friend Friedrich Engels still stand proudly in a main park of the 300-year-old capital city of Bengal. No ... Read more...
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Congress attacks CPI-M for using Christ portrait
February 3rd, 2012 - 8:26 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 3 (IANS) The state unit of the Congress party has condemned the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) for using a Jesus Christ portrait at an exhibition here ... Read more...
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Moscow questions NATO attack on Gaddafi
October 22nd, 2011 - 1:19 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Oct 21 (IANS/RIA Novosti) NATO actions preceding the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi should be scrutinised for their compliance with international law, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ... Read more...
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Fidel Castro turns 85
August 14th, 2011 - 1:20 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, Aug 14 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Fidel Castro, the charismatic leader of the Cuban Revolution, celebrated his 85th birthday Saturday.Singers and musicians from nine Latin American countries Friday night dedicated a ... Read more...
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Tripura school book drops Mahatma, Congress plans fast
May 24th, 2011 - 7:32 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, May 24 (IANS) Leaders of the opposition Congress would launch a hunger strike Wednesday protesting the replacement Mahatma Gandhi's name with Communist icon Vladimir Lenin in a Class 5 ... 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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Tucked away in library, a slice of freedom struggle
March 24th, 2011 - 9:45 am ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, March 24 (IANS) To relive the era of India's freedom struggle and hail the martyrdom of Bhagat Singh, a library here has developed a 'freedom-special' section that also contains ... Read more...
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American Ballet Theatre to return to Cuba in November after 50-yr hiatus
August 19th, 2010 - 5:06 pm ICT by ANI
New York, Aug 19(ANI): The New York-based American Ballet Theatre company will perform at the Havana International Ballet Festival in Cuba for the first time in 50 years in November.The company has ... Read more...
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Karl Marx died poor; Darwin, Dickens richer
August 12th, 2010 - 1:56 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 12 (IANS) No wonder! The enemy of capitalism Karl Marx left just 250 pounds to his name while Charles Darwin, the naturalist who preached the "survival of the fittest" theory ... Read more...
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Sir Ernest Shackleton, Karl Marx died in poverty, reveal probate records
August 11th, 2010 - 7:01 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 11 (ANI): Newly published records have revealed that one of Britain's most successful polar explorers, Sir Ernest Shackleton and well known German philosopher Karl Marx died in poverty.The records were ... Read more...
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I was a victim of CPI-M’s conspiracy: Congress leader
April 5th, 2010 - 6:57 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, April 5 (IANS) Days after his party revoked his suspension, senior Congress leader Rajmohan Unnithan Monday lashed out at the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) for "spreading canards" about him ... Read more...
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Lady Gaga posts topless birthday picture on Twitter
March 26th, 2010 - 1:44 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Mar 26 (ANI): 'Poker Face' singer Lady Gaga is said to have pulled another stunt, by posting what appears to be a topless photograph of herself on her Twitter page.Gaga, 23, ... Read more...
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Ravi Shankar flays Husain for nude painting
March 8th, 2010 - 7:54 pm ICT by IANS
Bangalore, March 8 (IANS) Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Monday expressed surprise over the "hue and cry" over painter M.F. Husain's move to give up Indian citizenship and chided him for ... Read more...
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Bolshoi’s top dancers perform in Cuba after 30 years
February 16th, 2010 - 9:57 am ICT by IANS
Havana, Feb 16 (IANS/EFE) Outstanding figures from Russian ballet with the Bolshoi Theatre performed in Havana after a 30-year absence at a gala event where they shared the stage with dancers from ... Read more...
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Nigerian Nobel Laureate says England is a ‘cesspit of Islamists’
February 2nd, 2010 - 2:10 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb.2 (ANI): Nigerian Nobel Laureate political activist Wole Soyinka has described England as a "cesspit" and breeding ground for fundamentalist Muslims.In an interview, according to the Guardian, he also accused Britain ... Read more...
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2010 Is The Year Of The Tiger, According To Chinese Astrology
January 1st, 2010 - 9:06 pm ICT by GD
By Gina Gomez
Jan.01, (THAINDIAN NEWS) According to Chinese astrology, the year 2010 would be the Year of the Tiger and the cycle would begin on February 14, 2010 and would come to ... Read more...
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Leaving East Germany - as easy as Alpha, Bravo, Charlie?
October 23rd, 2009 - 9:25 am ICT by IANS
By Helen Maguire
Berlin, Oct 23 (DPA) In the winter of 1962, just months after the Berlin Wall was built, bus driver and war veteran Hans Weidner decided he was fed up with ... Read more...
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Here’s how Einstein, Darwin would use e-mail
September 26th, 2009 - 12:49 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, September 26 (ANI): The way Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin wrote letters in a pattern similar to the way people use e-mail today, according to a Northwestern University study.Published in ... Read more...
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Emails, letters written the same way: Study
September 26th, 2009 - 11:39 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 26 (IANS) Letter writers of yore had some of the same correspondence patterns as e-mail users today.
A new Northwestern University study of human behaviour has determined that those who wrote ... Read more...
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Maoists continue with their Foundation Day anniversary celebrations in Bihar
September 23rd, 2009 - 9:24 pm ICT by ANI
Gaya (Bihar), Sep 23(ANI): Members and activists of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) continued with their Foundation Day anniversary celebrations in several parts of rural Bihar for the second day on Tuesday. ... Read more...
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Owen chooses burial spot, may pay $22,500
September 20th, 2009 - 1:38 pm ICT by IANS
London, Sep 20 (IANS) Hollywood star Clive Owen knows where he wants to be buried after his death and may even shell out $22,500 for his favourite spot.
He wants to be laid ... Read more...
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Social scientist Friedrich Engels dubbed ’sexual predator’ in new book
June 1st, 2009 - 2:10 pm ICT by ANI
New York, June 1 (ANI): Renowned social scientist Friedrich Engels has been dubbed a 'sexual predator' in a new biography."Marx's General" by Tristram Hunt reveals that Engels loved hookers and hated homosexuals.Hunt ... Read more...
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Venezuela offers to accept Guantanamo prisoners
April 2nd, 2009 - 5:57 am ICT by IANS
Cairo, April 2 (EFE) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said that his country "would have no problems in receiving" prisoners released from the detention centre for suspected terrorists at the US ... Read more...
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China plans new stage show on Karl Marx’’s Das Kapital
March 18th, 2009 - 6:40 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 18 (ANI): China is reportedly planning to adapt Karl Marx''s Das Kapital into a new stage show.Though revolutionaries have disregarded the bourgeois art form, the show''s producers insist ... Read more...
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Nepal Maoists flay Buddha for getting berth beside Marx, Lenin
February 16th, 2009 - 3:48 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Feb 16 (IANS) After fighting over the Buddha, the apostle of peace and non-violence, Nepal's former guerrilla party, the Maoists, are now blowing cold towards the world icon, flaying his inclusion ... Read more...
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Cuban ballet to perform in Egypt, Canada
January 14th, 2009 - 11:34 am ICT by IANS
Havana, Jan 14 (IANS) Cuban ballet Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba will perform its show "Fuerza y compas" (Force and Beat) in Egypt and Holland, Cuban news agency Prensa Latina reported Wednesday.It will ... Read more...
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Nepal PM ready for junket as nation reels under power crisis
December 19th, 2008 - 5:54 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Dec 19 (IANS) As Nepal reels under its worst-ever power crisis with the government imposing a nine-hour outage daily and readying to declare an energy emergency, Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal ... Read more...
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Roman Abramovich polled archetypal Englishman by Serbians
November 21st, 2008 - 6:39 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 21 (ANI): A poll by residents of a Siberian city has named Roman Abramovich as their idea of an archetypal Englishman.The owner of Chelsea Football Club pipped Winnie the ... Read more...
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Kerala chief minister admits he is ‘old fashioned’
November 12th, 2008 - 5:31 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 12 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan Wednesday lashed out at noted Malayalam writer M. Mukundan, who in an article had called the former an "outdated saint", and admitted that ... Read more...
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Obama campaign cuts TV stations cord over Joe Biden grilling
October 27th, 2008 - 12:42 pm ICT by ANI
Orlando, Fla, Oct 27 (ANI): Barack Obamas campaign has pulled the plug on a Florida news stations access to the presidential candidate after an anchorwoman angered Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe ... Read more...
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Prachanda to visit Marx’’s birthplace
September 21st, 2008 - 4:47 pm ICT by ANI
Kathmandu, Sept 21(ANI): Nepal Prime Minister Prachanda will visit the birthplace of Karl Marx, whose writings have inspired communist revolutions all over the world on September 30.
The house where Marx was ... Read more...
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