Bengal: CPIM suspends party leader Tanmoy Bhattacharya after woman journo accuses him of misconduct
Oct 28, 2024, at 05:17 am
Kolkata/IBNS: The CPI(M) Sunday suspended its party leader and former MLA Tanmoy Bhattacharya following an allegation by a woman journalist that he had misbehaved with her.
CPI(M) appoints party veteran Prakash Karat as interim coordinator after Sitaram Yechury's death
Sep 30, 2024, at 06:29 am
New Delhi: Veteran CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat has been appointed as the interim coordinator of the party’s Polit Bureau and Central Committee until the 24th Party Congress, which is scheduled for April next year, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) announced on Sunday.
Marxist stalwart and CPI-M veteran Sitaram Yechury dies at 72
Sep 12, 2024, at 10:30 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) General Secretary and former Rajya Sabha MP, Sitaram Yechury, passed away on Thursday at the age of 72 after a prolonged illness, a statement by his party confirmed.
Aug 15, 2024, at 03:40 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Amid massive criticism and nationwide protest over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday said the state police will assist the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in all manners to ensure the highest punishment for the perpetrators but was quick to slam the opposition parties for 'indulging in vulture politics.'
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee: The life and time of a Red Romantic
Aug 09, 2024, at 07:07 pm
“Patria o muerte” (Homeland or Nothing)! This is how Ernesto Che Guevara had ended his historic address (in Spanish) before the 19th United Nations (UN) General Assembly in December, 1964. The non-negotiable willingness to defend its sovereignty, the Argentine guerrilla leader had shaken the world with a romantic resolve, as the then Industry Minister of Cuba.
Aug 08, 2024, at 05:41 pm
Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, whose bold attempts at economic reforms in the decades-long rule of the communists in the state saw their ouster over farmers' protests, died on Thursday at age 80, ending one of the illustrious yet politically incomplete journeys of a reformist Marxist in India.
Jul 01, 2024, at 01:02 am
Chopra, West Bengal/IBNS: A video clip of a woman being beaten up mercilessly along with another man in an instance of what seemed like a "kangaroo court justice" by an alleged Trinamool Congress strongman in North Dinajpur district of West Bengal has gone viral, triggering an outrage with the Opposition launching a blistering attack on the Mamata Banerjee government.
Kerala: Two CPI-M workers injured in bomb blast in Panoor
Apr 05, 2024, at 05:27 pm
Kannur/UNI: Two Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) workers sustained injuries with one nearly losing a limb when an explosion occurred while making country-made bombs at Muliyathode near Panoor early Friday.
LS polls: MK Stalin's DMK clinches seat-sharing deal with Left in Tamil Nadu
Mar 01, 2024, at 03:28 am
Chennai/IBNS/UNI: The ruling DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance in Tamil Nadu Thursday clinched a seat-sharing agreement with its allies, the two Left parties CPI and CPI(M) for the ensuing Lok Sabha polls.
Calcutta HC grants bail to ex-Sandeshkhali CPI(M) MLA Nirapada Sardar, raps govt over his arrest
Feb 28, 2024, at 04:43 am
Kolkata/IBNS: The Calcutta High Court Tuesday granted bail to former Sandeshkhali CPI(M) MLA Nirapada Sardar, who was arrested by the Bengal Police, for his alleged involvement in the violent protests in pockets of the North 24 Parganas district.
Sandeshkhali row: Calcutta HC cancels prohibitory order, opposition intensifies movement
Feb 14, 2024, at 06:02 am
Kolkata/IBNS/UNI: The oppositions-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), CPI(M) and Congress-on Tuesday intensified their movement separately on the Sandeshkhali issue in Bengal where the women were allegedly being tortured by some TMC local leaders, even as Calcutta High Court set aside the prohibitory order imposed by the state administration under section 144 Cr PC at the troubled-torn area in North 24 Parganas, official sources said.
Feb 12, 2024, at 07:56 am
Agartala: Tension gripped Tripura after tribals backed by the Tripura Students Federation (TSF) threatened to block the National Highway and Railway services from Monday for an indefinite period.
Tripura: CPI-M moves ECI accusing ruling BJP of election code violation
Aug 18, 2023, at 06:11 pm
Agartala/UNI: The opposition CPI-M lodged a complaint with the Election Commission of India alleging gross violation of the model code of conduct by the ruling BJP with indulgence from election officials during the ongoing by-election to two assembly constituencies—Dhanpur and Boxanagar.
Tripura: CPI(M) Samsul Haque MLA dies of cardiac arrest
Jul 19, 2023, at 06:08 pm
Agartala/UNI: Tripura CPI(M) MLA Samsul Haque from the Boxanagar Assembly Constituency died of cardiac arrest on Wednesday in the wee hours at Agartala Govt Medical College (AGMC).
Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress sweeps Bengal Panchayat elections, BJP ranks distant second
Jul 12, 2023, at 07:09 am
Kolkata/IBNS: After days of sporadic violence, West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress swept the state's all three-tier Panchayat elections as results kept pouring in from several districts till late Tuesday night amid tight security of central forces and the state police.
Calcutta HC orders deployment of central forces in Bengal Panchayat poll
Jun 14, 2023, at 06:25 am
Kolkata/IBNS: The Calcutta High Court Tuesday ordered the West Bengal State Election Commission to ensure the deployment of central paramilitary forces for the July 8 Panchayat polls in the state.
'Does a match end in only one innings?': Congress leader Lakshman Seth on his second marriage at 77
Jun 03, 2023, at 03:56 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Former Left heavyweight and current Congress leader Lakshman Seth has recently hit the headlines not for political reasons but for one of his decisions in personal life.
Madras High Court dismisses plea seeking ban on release of 'The Kerala Story'
May 05, 2023, at 12:55 am
Chennai: The Madras High Court has rejected a petition seeking a ban on the release of the controversial film "The Kerala Story," media reports said
Tripura: CPI-M-Cong alleges TIPRA Motha spoils their prospect, Pradyot feels reverse
Mar 18, 2023, at 05:51 pm
Agartala/UNI: When CPI-M and Congress said the victory of BJP in the Tripura assembly election because of TIPRA Motha candidates, the latter party chairman and royal scion Pradyot Kishore Debbarman claimed the reverse saying BJP could have won around 50 seats in the 60 -members assembly if Motha was not in the fray.
Tripura polls by and large peaceful, over 85 percent voters' turnout recorded: EC
Feb 17, 2023, at 01:22 am
Agartala/IBNS/UNI: Over 85 percent of the electorate exercised their democratic rights amid high security as the Tripura Assembly polls remained by and large peaceful barring a few stray incidents of violence on Thursday.
Tripura polls: CPI-M moves ECI against deployment of Assam and Gujarat police in the state
Feb 11, 2023, at 04:52 pm
Agartala/UNI: A few hours before the campaign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in poll-bound Tripura, the opposition CPI-M reached the Chief Election Commissioner of India, accusing the BJP of deploying state police of Gujarat and Assam claiming them as central paramilitary force with an ulterior motive.
Tripura: 7 injured in CPM-BJP clash in poll-bound state
Feb 11, 2023, at 04:45 pm
Agartala/UNI: At least seven people were injured in a clash between BJP and CPI-M on Friday in Melaghar under Sonamura constituency of Sepahijala district in poll-bound Tripura.
CPI-M wants voting facilities for TSR jawans posted outside in Tripura poll
Jan 18, 2023, at 07:45 pm
Agartala/UNI: CPI-M state secretary Jitendra Chaudhury on Wednesday wrote to the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Tripura Kiran Gitte asking to arrange voting of Tripura State Rifles (TSR) jawans who have been under deputation outside the state.
Tripura CPM calls opposition parties to unite to defeat BJP
Dec 02, 2022, at 04:47 pm
Agartala/UNI: The opposition CPM in Tripura called for a united fight to unseat the BJP-led government in upcoming assembly elections while demanding to Director General of Police to take action against SDPO Bishalgarh Rahul Das and Additional SP (Sepahijala) Randhir Debbarma for their inaction to prevent the murder of Shahid Mia (65).
CPI(M) leader and former West Bengal minister Manab Mukherjee dies of cardiac arrest
Nov 30, 2022, at 12:58 am
Kolkata/IBNS: CPI(M) leader and former West Bengal minister Manab Mukherjee died of cardiac arrest on Tuesday afternoon. He was 67.
Tripura: 30 people from BJP, Congress injured in clashes, CPI-M office vandalised
Nov 26, 2022, at 06:48 pm
Agartala/UNI: At least 30 people from both ruling BJP and opposition Congress were injured in two separate political clashes in Tripura while a CPI-M party office was vandalised in the last 24 hours, triggering tension across the state.
Congress denies any role in attack on Kerala CPI-M headquarters
Jul 01, 2022, at 06:14 pm
Thiruvananthapuram/UNI: The Congress party has no role in the bomb attack on AKG Centre, the CPI-M headquarters in Kerala, Opposition leader in State Assembly VD Satheesan claimed Friday.
Kerala: Bomb hurled at CPI-M headquarters, Congress denies any role
Jul 01, 2022, at 06:11 pm
Thiruvananthapuram/UNI: A low intensity bomb was hurled at the AKG Centre, the headquarters of CPI-M in Kerala, at 11:45 pm Thursday.
CPI-M demands removal of RO of Tripura CM’s constituency
Jun 07, 2022, at 05:18 pm
Agartala/UNI: The opposition CPI-M Tuesday demanded the change of Returning Officer of Bardowali constituency – SDM Sadar accusing him of bias and directly connected with BJP.
Tripura CPI-M accuses PM Modi of violating election code
May 31, 2022, at 05:14 pm
Agartala/UNI: A day after Election Commission of India (ECI) served notice to Tripura Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha for his alleged violation of model election code, opposition CPI-M Tuesday lodged complaint with the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for intentionally violating model code of conduct.