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  CPI-M MLA, party workers arrested

  National | June 26, 2014 13:18 IST

  Dindigul (TN): CPI-M MLA Balabharathi and some party workers were today arrested when they staged picketing here demanding that authorities close down a Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC) liquor shop located in a busy

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  National parties earned Rs.991.2 crore in 2012-13

  National | June 26, 2014 8:13 IST

  New Delhi: Politics appears to be a profitable business, as six national parties together registered a total income of Rs.991.2 crore in 2012-13, while they spent Rs.648.7 crore, according to data compiled by a think

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  Seat-for-money scam: Bengal government faces heat, orders probe

  National | June 25, 2014 11:23 IST

  Kolkata: Under fire over the alleged seat-for-money scam in a West Bengal college, the state government Tuesday formed a one-member probe panel to look into the allegations, even as the ruling Trinamool Congress's student wing

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  Seat-for-money scam: Bengal government faces heat, orders probe

  India | June 25, 2014 8:21 IST

  Kolkata: Under fire over the alleged seat-for-money scam in a West Bengal college, the state government Tuesday formed a one-member probe panel to look into the allegations, even as the ruling Trinamool Congress's student wing

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  CPI-M welcomes vice chancellor's exit

  National | June 24, 2014 18:58 IST

  New Delhi: The CPI-M Tuesday welcomed the resignation of Delhi University Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh over the controversial four-year undergraduate course.The party congratulated "the teachers, students and employees of the university whose sustained and successful

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  Trinamool to hit the streets Monday against rail fare hike

  National | June 23, 2014 11:17 IST

  Kolkata: After the opposition Congress and the CPI-M, West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress would hit the streets from Monday in protest against the hike in train fares.Trinamool national general secretary Mukul Roy said his party

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  Congress, CPI(M) took to streets protesting against rail fare hike in Delhi

  National | June 21, 2014 17:33 IST

  New Delhi: Congress and CPI(M) today took to the streets in the national capital protesting the "massive" rail fare hike and demanding its immediate rollback, saying the government's decision will lead to rise in prices

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  Use all languages on social media: CPI-M

  National | June 20, 2014 16:52 IST

  New Delhi: The CPI-M Friday criticized the government decision to use Hindi as the sole medium of communication for government information on social media.A statement from the Communist Party of India-Marxist said this went "against

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  Four Trinamool activists killed, ex-minister named in FIR

  National | June 20, 2014 15:06 IST

  Kolkata: Charging the BJP and the CPI-M with conspiracy, the ruling Trinamool Congress Sunday accused former state minister and Marxist leader Kanti Ganguly of being involved in the killings of its four activists in West

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  TMC dismisses that it reached understanding with BJP

  National | June 12, 2014 20:54 IST

  Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress today dismissed that it has reached an understanding with the BJP in Rajya Sabha where the NDA does not have majority.  “There is no basis in it,” all India TMC General

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  CPI-M seeks resignation of V K Singh

  National | June 12, 2014 19:06 IST

  New Delhi: The CPI(M) today sought the resignation of Union minister V K Singh or his removal from the Council of Ministers for his “open opposition” to the appointment of the new army chief.“This new

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  Oomen Chandy defends orphanages in Kerala

  National | June 09, 2014 16:56 IST

  Thiruvananthapuram: In the wake of controversy that 455 children were trafficked to Kerala's orphanages, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Monday urged opposition parties not to generalise functioning of orphanages in the state.He asked the Left opposition

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  CPI(M) to debate on poll debacle in its Central Committee meet

  National | June 07, 2014 20:23 IST

  New Delhi: Amidst reports of some top leaders like Sitaram Yechury renewing their offer to quit, an acrimonious debate took place today among CPI(M) leaders on the party's poll debacle and the political and electoral

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  Stones pelted at Kollam MP's house in Kerala

  National | June 07, 2014 11:32 IST

  Kollam (Kerala): Miscreants pelted stones on Kollam Lok Sabha member N.K. Premachandran's house here and pasted posters threatening him.The parliamentarian, who is in New Delhi, told IANS over phone that the newspaper delivery boy first

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  Left divided and clueless over revival strategy

  National | June 06, 2014 12:20 IST

  Kolkata: With CPI(M)-led Left Front decimated in the Lok Sabha elections in the erstwhile red citadel of West Bengal, the leadership seems to be divided whether there should be a change of guard or in

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  Hear out common people, workers, Karat tells Bengal party leadership

  National | June 04, 2014 11:12 IST

  Kolkata: CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat Tuesday advised the West Bengal party leadership to patiently hear criticism and suggestions of the common people and draw lessons from them to build up movements despite the "tough

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  Democratic order has collapsed in Bengal: CPI-M

  National | June 03, 2014 11:59 IST

  Kolkata: Alleging that the democratic system has collapsed in West Bengal, the CPI-M Monday accused the ruling Trinamool Congress of unleashing violence on workers of all opposition parties and common people and urged the masses

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  Democratic order has collapsed in Bengal: CPI-M

  India | June 03, 2014 6:40 IST

  Kolkata: Alleging that the democratic system has collapsed in West Bengal, the CPI-M Monday accused the ruling Trinamool Congress of unleashing violence on workers of all opposition parties and common people and urged the masses

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  Criticism and self-criticism at CPI(M) meet in Bengal

  National | June 02, 2014 20:22 IST

  Kolkata: CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat today attended the party's West Bengal state committee meeting, where ‘criticism and self-criticism' took place to review its disastrous show in the recent Lok Sabha elections.  “There was criticism

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  'Article 370 is 'jugular vein' of the bond between JK, Centre'

  National | June 02, 2014 20:00 IST

  Srinagar: CPI(M) today described Article 370 of the Constitution as “jugular vein” of the relationship between Jammu and Kashmir and the Centre and said if the Constitutional provision is weakened the bond will also follow