Even after a year since Revolutionary Marxist Party founder TP Chandrasekharan was murdered, the CPI(M) hasn't released its inquiry report into the case. According to former CPI(M) leader Appukuttan Vallikunnu says that Prakash Karat is betraying people by not...
CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury demands that the UPA government release the names of all those involved in the coal scam. He also said that there is no point in the Law Minister or Prime Minister resigning if the names are not revealed.
CM Dinesh Mani will take charge as the CPI(M) district secretary in Ernakulam, which is a stronghold of VS Achuthanandan. The decision to appoint Dinesh came after the Pinaryi-VS sections held talks and reached a consensus. Dinesh Mani is expected to take char...
CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury hits back at the West Bengal governor, who has sought an apology from Left parties, alleging that the attack on TMC leaders, Mamata Banerjee and Amit Mitra, at the Planning Commission office in Delhi was preplanned.
CPM leader Prakash Karat writes to the President regarding West Bengal governor MK Narayan's statement that it was a pre-meditated assault against the state chief minister Mamata Banerjee at the Planning Commission in New Delhi.
The CPI(M) state secretariat meet, which is scheduled for today, is set to discuss the troubles in CPM Kanjikuzhy branch after rebels approached the state leadership with complaints against the district leadership.
The CPI(M) state secretariat meet, which is scheduled for today, is set to discuss the troubles in CPM Kanjikuzhy branch after rebels approached the state leadership with complaints against the district leadership.
Different regions in West Bengal saw violence following clashes between CPM and TMC workers. Police have arrested a CPM leader along with 30 party workers for their role in the violence in Siliguri. Meanwhile, the doctors who examined Mamata Banerjee in Kolkat...
Violence continues unabated in West Bengal with Left and TMC supporters engaging in clashes. TMC supporters hurl stones at CPM party office at Siliguri.
Violence continues unabated in West Bengal with Left and TMC supporters engaging in clashes. TMC supporters hurl stones at CPM party office at Siliguri.
Clashes between TMC and CPM supporters erupts in the Presidency College in Kolkata. People alleged to be TMC workers storm into the campus and ransack a laboratory there.
Mamata Banerjee in her address to the media said that she is upset with the attack on her and Amit Mitra. She also alleges that the attack was premeditated and planned. She said that she is returning to Kolkata and also added that Delhi is not a safe city.
After West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was heckled in the capital yesterday by SFI activists, Trinamool Congress workers have called for nation-wide protest against the incident. In the meantime, security has been tightened outside TMC's headquarters...
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As a fallout to the incident in New Delhi where SFI activists heckled Mamata Banerjee and Amit Mitra, Trinamool Congress workers have allegedly ransacked CPM offices across West Bengal.
CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan claims that CPIM is party that is highly united. He says that even the UDF, which attempts to tarnish the image of the party, has admitted that CPIM is a party that is united.
West Bengal Chief Minister gives a clean chit to the state police, making slain student leader Sudipta Gupta's family angry. The family says that by being insensitive to their complaints, the CM has automatically lost the right to rule.
Following the death of SFI leader Sudipto Gupta at the hands of the police, the student wing of the CPI(M), as well other Left parties, have called for a complete bandh in the state, as anger against Mamata Banerjee-led state government is on the rise.
Newshour | Kolkata comes out to say goodbye to the 22-year-old Sudipta Gupta, who died in police custody. Sudipta's father is inconsolable, while the crowd pours out in support of the student who was mercilessly tortured by the police. TMC hides under the cove...
Left leader Sitaram Yechury expresses anger over Sudipta Gupta's death and says that he knew him personally. Yechury says that he had met him once and he thought he had a spark. He also criticises the Mamata Banerjee government for not handling these protests ...
'I am his father and I have no words to express my grief. It has been over 24 hours now... All I pray for is for his soul to rest in peace', says Pranab Gupta, the father of Sudipta Gupta who died in police custody.
Student leader Sudipta Gupta is being taken on a procession to the crematorium, where his last rites will be conducted. A huge crowd has gathered to pay their last respects, and even ex-CM Buddadeb Bhattacharjee was spotted. The leader died yesterday in police...
Journalist and editor Vinod Mehta reacts to TMC's comments about how the leader's death was history and that it is important to think of the future. He says that the so-called 'police goondaism' must be stopped and that the concerned officials should be punish...
TMC leader Derek O'Brien expresses condolences to the family of Sudipta Gupta, but maintains that it was an accident. He says that while it is unfortunate to see a young life being snuffed out, but it is history.
CPI(M) leader Fuad Alim says that Sudipta Gupta died in police custody and hence someone in the police force should be held accountable. Arresting the driver, who did not do anything, will not do justice to his death, says Alim. Another CPI(M) leader Mohammad ...
SFI activists have protested the death of fellow leader, Sudipta Gupta, and are demanding a probe into the incident. The police have arrested the bus driver and conductor of the bus in which Sudipta Gupta died. The SFI students were protesting the West Bengal ...
Student activists protest the death of fellow SFI leader Sudipta Gupta at the hands of the police. The SFI activists were protesting against the West Bengal government's decision to shift the dates of college union elections.
Students expressed their anger at the death of Sudipta Gupta, a 24 year-old SFI student activist who in a march carried out to protest Mamata Banerjee's decision to postpone the college union elections. Fellow student activists allege that Gupta died due to th...
CPI(M) state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan demands the resignation of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy over the KB Ganesh Kumar domestic violence row. Further on he says that Ganesh Kumar has no moral right to continue as a politician.
Newshour | A student leader belonging to the CPI(M) dies after being lathicharged by the police. The leader, identified as Sudipta Gupta was allegedly tortured by the police after being arrested during a protest demanding college union elections in West Bengal...
A student leader belonging to the CPI(M) dies after being lathicharged by the police. The leader, identified as Sudipta Gupta was allegedly tortured by the police after being arrested. An eyewitness, Debosmita Sarkar, explains what happened to Sudipta.
A student leader belonging to the CPI(M) dies after being lathicharged by the police. The leader, identified as Sudipta Gupta was allegedly tortured by the police after being arrested during a protest demanding college union elections in West Bengal.
A student leader belonging to the CPI(M) dies after being lathicharged by the police. The leader, identified as Sudipta Gupta was allegedly tortured by the police after being arrested during a protest demanding college union elections in West Bengal. However, ...
A student leader belonging to the CPI(M) dies after being lathicharged by the police. The leader, identified as Sudipta Gupta was allegedly tortured by the police after being arrested during a protest demanding college union elections in West Bengal. However, ...
The two-day CPM state committee meet which is underway is set to discuss several crucial issues concerning the party. The meet is also likely to discuss about gaining political mileage from the troubles assailing the UDF.
The two-day long CPI(M) state committee meet is all set to begin. Politburo member S Ramachandran Pillai will be part of the meet. However, Opposition leader VS Achuthanandan is unlikely to be part of this meet too.
Left parties in the state have decided to launch a state-wide agitation after their leaders were forcibly shifted to hospital last night, thus ending their hunger strike on the issue of power. The leaders whose hunger strike entered its fourth day yesterday we...
After the police forcibly moved Left leaders on fast against rising power tariff to hospital last night, TDP began its indefinite hunger strike on the same issue. Late last night, 22 TDP MLAs marched to the Old MLA Quarters in Hyderabad and began their hunger ...
Even as political leaders are making a beeline to Indira Park, where the Left leaders' fast over the issue of power enters its fourth day, the visible increase in police presence has made party activists wary. They fear that the police would swoop and forcibly...
TRS leader Harish Rao came out in full support of the Left parties' hunger strike at Indira Park in Hyderabad. Harish Rao said it was the Left that had usually taken up issues relating to power policy.
TRS leaders Harish Rao attacks the links between private producers and the Congress government. The TRS has lent its support to the indefinite fast of Left parties against current surcharge and proposed hike in power tariff. Left leaders, CPM's BV Raghavulu an...
KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala accuses CPM of attempting to protect the killers of TP Chandrasekharan. He claims that witnesses in the case turning hostile suggest that CPM is leaving no stone unturned to protect the killers. He also praises the undertaking...
The two-day long crucial CPI(M) state secretariat meet is underway in AKG centre. Opposition leader VS Achuthanandan will skip the meet today too. VS has made it clear that he would not attend any of party's meets until P Karunakaran report against him is with...
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has lent its support to the fast by the Left party leaders - CPI's K Narayana and CPM's BV Raghavulu. The Left leaders are on fast demanding that the proposed hike in current tariff be stopped and the current surcharge adjustment b...
CPM state general secretary BV Raghavulu's indefinite fast on the power surcharge issue has entered its second day. Raghavulu talks about the reasons for the fast, moves to hike power tariff, and his demand to stop collecting fuel surcharge adjustment.
Opposition leader VS Achuthanandan skips the CPM state leadership meet which will last for five days. The meet will discuss the current political scenario in the state and the continued defiance of VS Achuthanandan.
The hunger strike by the Left party leaders -- CPM's BV Raghavulu and CPI's K Naryana -- enters its second day today. The parties are demanding that the government rollback the hike in current surcharge, and protesting against the government's failure in provi...
The two-day Politburo meet in Delhi is set to discuss several crucial issues including the date for the central committee meet in which the Opposition leadership of VS Achuthanandan will be discussed.
The Kerala High Court is set to consider the SNC Lavalin scam case today. HC is likely to consider the plea by CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan seeking early trial in the case. The court is also set to hear the bail plea in the Suryanelli gangrape case.
TRS has said it will threaten the Budget session of the Andhra Pradesh Assembly unless a motion for formation of Telangana is tabled in the Parliament. TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao said his party would field a no-confidence motion in the Assembly against the ...
CPI(M) politburo member Brinda Karat accuses the BJP and Congress of formulating policies that eventually lead to inflation. She said that the policies were not people-friendly at all and that country was sick of listening to parties bicker every single day.
CPI(M) state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, who accuses Chief Minister Oommen Chandy of hiding facts, asks the CM to make his stand over KB Ganesh Kumar controversy clear. He also demands that Chief Whip PC George be ousted if the statements that he made are fals...
It has begun, power cuts. Major cities will have two hours of power cuts daily, district centres four hours, municipalities and other urban centres will have six hours and will exceed ten hours in rural areas. On the other hand, the CPM today launched a major ...
War of words erupted between the CPM and Trinamool Congress in West Bengal after former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya called Mamata Banerjee 'dishonest'. Launching a scathing attack on the veteran CPM leader, TMC has levelled corruption charges against...
CPM, which has been receiving a cold shoulder from the minority community, has made an attempt to reach out to Muslims through a fellowship meet. However, this attempt by CPM, reportedly has met with a lukewarm response. The media was kept at bay and the party...
After a two-year-long struggle, CPM officials in Kozhikode have acceded to the demand of party workers and invited Opposition leader VS Achuthanandan to inaugurate the CPM Thekkedathu Thazam branch office in the district.
Kerala High Court has directed special investigation team to investigate if former CPM Idukki district secretary MM Mani has violated the conditions set while granting him bail. The HC has also asked the police to collect the CD of the controversial speech he ...
The CPM Politbureau may be asked to initiate disciplinary action against Opposition leader VS Achuthanandan who continues to defy the party. Meanwhile, VS is likely to stay away from the meet. Chorus is growing in the party to silence the veteran leader who ha...
The fight between ruling Congress and the Opposition in Kerala intensifies over the involvement of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman's involvement in the Suryanelli rape case. The women's wing of the CPI(M) is marching towards Kerala Assembly demanding immediate res...
Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan has come down strongly on the ban on Kamal Hassan's 'Vishwaroopam', saying that it goes against an artiste's right to freedom of expression. South Indian superstar Rajnikanth has also appealed to Muslim organisations to allow th...
The CPI(M) decision to withdraw support to the samithi, which is set to decide on environmentally fragile areas, has come as a set back to the Idukku section of the CPI(M). The party has decided not to co-operate with the samithi alleging that they didn't get ...
TG Nandakumar, who is accused of helping VS Achuthanandan to meet Supreme Court judges to implicate Pinarayi Vijayan in the SNC Lavalin case, says he got a call from Pinarayi to confirm whether he had involved in the case or not. He also claims that he has eno...
KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala alleges that the fight between the Opposition leader and the party office bearers of CPI(M) has reached its heights. He also assures that the KPCC and DCC meet, which is to be held today in Thiruvananthapuram will discuss abou...
Denying the reports by the State committee’s deliberations on VS seeking Nandakumar's help to influence Supreme Court judges to implicate Pinarayi Vijayan in SNC Lavalin case, VS Achuthanandan said the people would reject such reports with contempt. He also ...
The CPI(M) state committee has asked the party central committee to look into the report tabled by its central committee member P Karunakaran, who probed a complaint regarding VS Achuthanandan meeting Supreme Court judges with the help of a middleman. It was a...
The CPI(M) state committee has asked the party central committee to look into the report tabled by its central committee member P Karunakaran, who probed a complaint regarding VS Achuthanandan meeting Supreme Court judges with the help of a middleman. It was a...
The nest Central committee will decide on the expulsion of three personal staff members of opposition leader VS Achuthanandan, says CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat. The CPI-M state committee had earlier decided to expel Press Secretary K Balakrishnan, P...
Reacting to the statement of West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan who referred the clashes between CPM and TMC in the state as goondaism, CPM has said that goondaism is back in the West Bengal and this time around it is encouraged by the state government. Welcomi...
The clashes between the CPM and TMC in West Bengal have left several people injured. However both the parties have refused to take responsibility for clashes, choosing to play the blame game instead. Even as the situation in the state remains tense, Chief Mini...
CPM leader Brinda Karat slams RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for his comments on how rapes occur only in urban India and not in rural Bharat. She says that maximum number of rapes occur on adivasis and dalit women in tribal and rural India.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat states that rapes occur only in urban India and not in rural Bharat. He also states that the influence of westernization is the reason why women are getting raped. His comments have been criticized widely by many across the political sp...
Even as there is a huge outcry across India, demanding capital punishment for rapists, CPM has decided to go soft on the offenders as the party has opposed granting capital punishment to rapists. The party, instead, has demanded life imprisonment till the end ...
Ridiculing the protests led by the CPM, KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala has said that the party has not even been able to convince its own allies as to why it is protesting. He has also said that the party is protesting merely for the sake of protesting.
Remand period of the three accused, including CPI(M) leader MM Mani, on the Ancheri Baby murder case ends today. However, the special investigation team will petition the judicial first class magistrate of the Nedungandam court to not entertain the bail pleas ...
The all-party meeting on Telangana at the North Block office of the Union Home ministry in Delhi is over and the representatives of the eight political parties come out to brief the media. This segment has the reactions of BV Raghvulu of the CPI(M).
Communist Party's students' wings have drawn criticism by the CPI(M) secretariat. Calling the activism of DYFI and SFI lifeless, the CPI(M) leadership wants the students' organisations to work harder for social causes. The criticism came at the four-day long s...
The four-day long CPI(M) leadership meeting will begin tomorrow. The State Secretariat will hold the meeting first, and will be followed by a meeting by the State Samithi. The meet is to analyze and discuss the party decisions and matters that relate to the pa...
CPM state general secretary BV Raghuvulu says his party would be represented by MLA Julakanti Rangareddy and himself at the all-party meeting called by the Centre on December 28 on the issue of Telangana. Raghuvulu says their party's stand was clear and they w...
CPM leader Brinda Karat has demanded the Prime Minister to answer questions that have come up because of the Delhi gangrape case. She also feels that the Prime Minister has to take the blame for the Delhi Police's action against the protesters over the weekend...
CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan, who visited former CPM Idukki district secretary MM Mani who is in jail in connection with the murder of Anchery Baby, has said that there are many in the judicial system who express their opinions without having any subst...
Thodupuzha Sessions Court has turned down the bail plea of former CPM Idukki district secretary MM Mani who is in prison in connection with the murder of Anchery Baby.
Senior CPM leader P Jayarajan has warned the police, saying that the police officers who used third degree torture on party workers will be brought to book.
The Opposition raised a ruckus and staged a walkout when Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan was clarifying the Government's stand on the TP Chandrashekharan murder case and the case in which CPM leader MM Mani is believed to have been involved. Despite ...
The remand period of CPM Idukki former district secretary MM Mani and two others who were arrested in connection with the murder of Ancheri Baby has been extended till December 31.
The Thiruvananthapuram special CBI court has postponed the verdict on the petition filed by CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan in the SNC-Lavalin case to December 24.
Opposition leader VS Achuthanandan has met his former loyalist and former CPM Idukki district secretary MM Mani who is in jail in connection with the murder of Anchery Baby. Speaking to the media after the visit, Achuthanandan has said that the party has denou...
Opposition leader VS Achuthanandan is scheduled to visit his former loyalist and former CPM Idukki district secretary MM Mani who is in jail in connection with the murder of Anchery Baby. The party appears to be confused about this visit as VS is visiting Mani...
Congress lawmakers wore helmets to the West Bengal Assembly today, to protest the free for all in the House that took place yesterday, which sent four MLAs to the hospital. The Speaker had suspended three CPM MLAs - Amjad Hussain, Najimul Haq and Sushanta Besr...
The CPI(M) is reportedly warming up to the PDP, as indicated by CPI(M) Politburo member MA Baby, who was inaugurating the 'Malabar Sangamam' organised by the PDP at Puthenathani, near Valanchery in Malappuram yesterday. This brought back memories of a LDF elec...
CPM activists led by BV Raghuvulu organised an agitation against inflation and policies of UPA government that have hit the poor. They gheraoed the sub-collector's office in Vijayawada. Many activists, include women, were injured in the melee, with some of the...
Reacting to Opposition Leader VS Achuthanandan's allegations that Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and State Industries Minister PK Kunhalikutty are conspiring to remove him from the post of the Leader of Opposition, CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan says that ...
A court has directed vigilance to incriminate Opposition leader VS Achuthanandan in connection with an alleged illegitimate transfer of land to one of his relatives. Vigilance has been intimated that there is no legal restriction in incriminating the veteran C...
Thodupuzha Principal Sessions Court will look at ex-CPI(M) district secretary MM Mani's bail application on Monday. The CPI(M) leader was arrested on November 21 in connection with the Ancheri Baby murder. Mani's bail application was rejected by Nedumkandom Ju...
CPM has called for hartal in Idukki to protest arrest of party leader MM Mani. Mani was arrested in connection with the murder of Anchery Baby. He will be charged with criminal conspiracy, murder and concealing the design to commit the crime. Meanwhile CPI has...
Speaking on the arrest of CPM leader MM Mani, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said that there is only one law and one justice system in the state and that is equally applicable to everyone. Taking on the CPM, which is unhappy about the arrest of its leader, C...
A special investigation team arrested Idukki district CPI(M) secretary MM Mani in connection with Ancheri Baby murder case. Mani's arrest occurred at his house Kunjithanni in Idukki at 5.50 am on Wednesday. State home minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan said ...