KPCC president Ramesh Chennithala asks CPI(M) state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan to clarify his statement about Congress leaders assisting the Left parties.
Newshour| The JPC Report which was leaked yesterday has come in for a lot of controversy as the BJP party leaders allege that the report was made in favor of the Congress Party. They also allege that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was given a clean chit while a...
In a bizarre twist to the Presidency college violence, the Kolkata police have now registered a case against two students based on a complaint by Trinamool Congress leader's complaint. The students surrender at a nearby police station after the complaint was f...
Left party cadres are now on a protest in Kolkata against the vandalism shown by Trinamool Congress workers yesterday. The leaders have questioned Mamata government for allowing her party workers to go on a rampage in Presidency College in Kolkata. TMC workers...
Police had to resort to use of force to disperse clashing cadres of the Left and Trinamool Congress, after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was heckled in the national capital in Siliguri. The political fighting spilled on to the streets, causing dam...
Hours after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was heckled by SFI activists in the national capital, violence erupts in West Bengal between TMC workers and Left cadre. TMC ransacked the offices of the CPI(M) and attacked the Left leaders. Violence spil...
People across the country are staging protests against the death of SFI activist Sudipto Gupta in Kolkata. WB CM Mamata Banerjee remains in denial and questions as to where the protests are being held for Sudipto. The joint police commissioner of Kolkata Javed...
The Kolkata police have said that the investigation on the death of SFI activist Sudipta Gupta is being done in a transparent manner. They have refused to share the details of the autopsy report, but have said that they want the truth behind Sudipta's death to...
The joint police commissioner of Kolkata Javed Shamim says that the police will reveal details about the death of SFI activist Sudipta Gupta once they are given instructions from the higher authorities. Shamim says that the police have recreated the scene of c...
Newshour | If the police act as agents to quell political dissent then where is Indian democracy headed? Why should India look away when a 22-year-old student leader is killed for demanding a college election? On what basis do politicians expect the police to ...
Hundreds of students, including politicians gather to pay their last respects to SFI leader Sudipta Gupta. The 22-year-old will be cremated shortly. The activist died while he was in police custody. The Left and Congress have been questioning the 'police bruta...
Claiming that the Kolkata police had no role in the death of SFI student Sudipta Gupta, Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien said that the CCTV footage suggested that it was an accident. Earlier, CPI(M) alleged Gupta died of injuries suffered in a lathicharge w...
Thousands have hit the streets of Kolkata protesting and mourning the death of slain SFI leader Sudipta Gupta. The CPI(M) alleges that Gupta was killed in police custody. The Left and Congress have been questioning the 'police brutality'. The postmortem of his...
Protesters from the SFI are carrying out the funeral procession of student leader Sudipta Gupta in Kolkata. The body of the 22-year-old will be cremated in a while. The Left has been demanding a judicial probe into his death, alleging that the Mamata Banerjee ...
A huge uproar has broken out in Kolkata over the death of SFI leader Sudipta Gupta. According to eyewitnesses, the 22-year-old was brutally beaten by the police after he was taken into custody. Angry students hit the streets demanding justice for Sudipta. The ...
Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tiwari says it is time we rise above politics and ensure justice in the death of SFI leaders' death in Kolkata.
Tweeting on the dead of student leader in Kolkata, Manish Tiwari slams the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal, and says he's saddened by the incident.
Political passions are flaring in Kolkata over the death of a 22-year-old SFI student even as there are conflicting versions from the government, the police and the colleagues of the student leader.
There is massive outrage over the death of an SFI leader in Kolkata. The 22-year-old student, Sudipto Gupto, died after violent clashes broke out between the police and university students. The police claim the death was an accident, but a bitter political war...
In a shocking incident that reveals the atrociousness of police in West Bengal, a Left student leader, who was taken into custody, was allegedly tortured to death by the state police. The police, which refuted all the allegations, claim that he was killed in a...
CPI leader D Raja says that the Prime Minister's needs to clarify what he means by uncertainities with the government. However, Raja refuses to divulge his party's stand about an early election.
Left leaders boycott the Presidential address over the issue of price rise. Stating when the entire workforce of the country has boycotted work, Left parties, too, cannot work and attend Parliament. CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury says that the governm...
Stepping up the attack against Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien who is embroiled in the Suryanelli gangrape controversy, Left leader Sitaram Yechury says that Kurien has no moral authority to sit on the chair.
Trinamool Congress MLAs clash with Left MLAs in the West Bengal Assembly over chit-fund schemes. The Left party legislators allege that the Trinamool Congress leaders 'misbehaved' in the Assembly. The legislative members then staged a walk-out of the Parliamen...
Many prominent Left leaders attend the funeral of veteran CPM leader P Govinda Pillai. Thousands of party activists too have gathered at Shanthi Kavadam in Thiruvananthapuram to pay last respects to the late communist ideologue.
At a press conference in New Delhi, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury attacked the Centre and its reform policies. The Left party leader said that they would demand a vote in the Parliament winter session on FDI in retail. Yechury also slammed the governement's su...
At a press conference in New Delhi, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury attacked the Centre and the way it has gone about attacking the fresh auction of 2G spectrum. Even though the Leftist party would demand a vote in the Parliament winter session on FDI in retail,...
Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya slammed Mamata Banerjee over the law and order situation in the state. He also accused Mamata of favouring her own party MP's company over an international consortium's cargo handling company at Haldia, ...
The JPC meet on the 2G spectrum case has proved inconclusive. In the stormy JPC meet, the Left parties as well as the right-wing opposition took a strong stand against the Congress. The two groups of politicians in the JPC have demanded that the Prime Minister...
The LDF has organised a group of like-minded people to protest against the proposed airport at Aranmula in Pathanamthitta. Inaugurating the Aranmula Samrakshana Sangamam, Leader of the Opposition VS Achuthanandan says that eventhough the airport project was cl...
Left leaders have stormed out of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the 2G scam, demanding that Finance Minister P Chidambaram be questioned over the issue. Nonetheless, no major development is expected from this meet that is underway.
The Left leaders have stormed out of the JPC meet on 2G after asking for the Finance Minister P Chidambaram to be examined. The Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party have allegedly backed the demands made by the Left leaders. CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta ...
The coverage on the Coalgate scam began with the delay in tabling the CAG report on coal allocations in Parliament. This was followed by a 1000-page expose on the Screening Committee's report on the matter. In time, the links of nepotism and impropriety were u...
Facing the heat over Coalgate, so far the government's defence has been that the critical decisions regarding the controversial coal block allocations were being taken in continuation of the policies of previous governments including the NDA government. Howeve...
Hour by hour, session by session, the entire Monsoon session is washed out due to the Coalgate debate. The ruckus and disruption in Parliament have cost the taxpayer an additional 30 crore rupees, if the 1.87 lakh crore rupees loss estimated in the coal alloca...
BJP Spokesperson Prakash Javadekar lashes out at Union Minister Jairam Ramesh for dragging BJP President Nitin Gadkari's key aide into the 'Coalgate' battle. Rubbishing the allegations, the BJP calls Jairam's comments a diversionary tactic and promises to agit...
RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav speaks out regarding the logjam in the Upper House of Parliament over the SC/ST reservations in promotions Bill. Reiterating the necessity of clearing the Quota Bill, the RJD Chief takes on both the ruling UPA government and the BJP...
The government attempts to table the SC/ST reservations in promotions Bill in the Upper House of Parliament amidst absolute chaos. The BJP-led NDA opposition stubbornly refuses to relent, even temporarily, on its attack against the government. The BJP is deman...
Headlines Today exposes the massive hole in the government's 'zero-loss' theory with regard to the coal allocation scam. Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram questioned how any loss could be incurred if not even a single block of coal had been mined. This expo...
The CBI probe unearths documents into the coal allocation scam that have raised many political eyebrows. All coal block allocations made during the UPA government's tenure in 2004, were reportedly signed off by the then Coal Minister, Manmohan Singh. Prime Min...
The Congress-led UPA government seems to have pulled off a masterstroke as far as the SC/ST reservation in promotion Bill is concerned. The quota Bill is scheduled to be introduced in the Rajya Sabha again tomorrow. The Congress is attempting to put the BJP on...
A new revelation into the Coalgate probe has raised eyebrows. All coal block allocations made during the tenure of the UPA government's tenure in 2004, were reportedly signed off by the then Coal Minister, Manmohan Singh. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was...
The Congress has also called for a probe into the allegations made by the BJP. the Congress MPs are expected to approach the Central Vigilance Commission with a petition soon. The Congress has now sought an expansion of the CBI probe now going on in the alloca...
The Rajya Sabha is adjourned yet again as the BJP holds the Parliament hostage until their demands, in connection with the coal allocation scam, are met. The impasse in Parliament now enters the third consecutive week. The BJP and the Congress have both harden...
In an attempt to end the logjam in both Houses of Parliament, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is now taking matters into his own hands. The Prime Minister has called a meeting with all senior UPA leaders to formalize a strategy to combat the BJP's stubborn attit...
BJP Spokesperson Ravishankar Prasad reiterates the opposition's stand against the government in connection with the coal block allocation scam. The BJP has three demands. They have called for the resignation of the Prime Minister because he was the Coal Minist...
BJP leader Ravishankar Prasad claims that the Opposition is not to blame for the logjam in Parliament. He blames the arrogance of the UPA government for the washout of the entire monsoon session of Parliament. The BJP has three demands. They have called for th...
The CBI teams fanned out in over ten cities raiding those companies named in their primary FIRs, which are said to have illegally benefited from nepotism in coal block allocations. Meanwhile, Union Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal reiterated that the policy fo...
BJP leader Sushma Swaraj takes on the government for being 'stubborn' and not conceding its 'obvious' role in the massive coal allocation scam. The Opposition continues to stall proceedings in the Parliament, as the standoff enters the third consecutive week....
Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal addresses a press conference and rebutts some of the charges made by Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj. The BJP-led opposition continues to hold the Parliament hostage, creating an uproar in the Parliament as...
BJP Spokesperson Prakash Javadekar lashes out at the Congress government in the state of Andhra Pradesh and the Centre for the misuse of law and order personnel. The BJP demands an answer from the Congress, as to why the Telangana protestors were lathicharged ...
The BJP-led opposition continues to hold the Parliament hostage, creating an uproar in the Parliament as the impasse enters the third consecutive week. The BJP and the Congress have both hardened their stand on the issues brought to light by the controversial ...
CPI, CPI(M) and other Left parties today held a 'chalo secretariat' march against the surcharge on power tariff being imposed by the Andhra Pradesh government. Will this agitation and the struggle solve the problem? In the studio is CPI(M) state secretary BV R...
CPM leader Sitaram Yechury flays the government for not heeding to the party when it tried to raise the issue of illegal allotment of coal blocks in Parliament.
The nation saw acts of vandalism and violence with protesters torching buses and pelting stones to enforce the bandh called by the Opposition to protest against petrol price hike.
India TV reports ten incidences in which the common man is hassled and troubled due to the Bharat Bandh called by the Opposition to protest against the hike in petrol price.
Aaj Tak captures the different faces of the nationwide bandh called by the Opposition to protest against petrol price hike across the country on camera.
CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury hit out at UPA II as it completed three years in office, saying the government had failed to curb corruption, inflation and unemployment.