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Decision made by party: Kerala CM on dropping KK Shailaja from Cabinet
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday said the decision to drop Communist Party of India (M) leader KK Shailaja from the state cabinet in his second term was one made…
- India
Vijayan delivers beamer, drops Shailaja, includes son-in-law in new team
Thiruvananthapuram: True to his style of being the last word in the CPI-M and also in the government, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan delivered a beamer on Tuesday when he, much to the…
- Politics
Mamata Banerjee: From defeating Left to overcoming BJP’s political onslaught
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee, who on Wednesday took oath as the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the third consecutive term has emerged as one of the most prominent…
- India
IUML leader Samadani wins Malappuram bypoll
Malappuram: IUML leader Abdussamad Samadani won the bypoll to the Malappuram Lok Sabha seat on Sunday by defeating V P Sanu of the CPI(M) with a margin of 1.15 lakh votes. The by-election…
- India
Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat’s convoy attacked in Kolkata ahead of phase IV polls
Kolkata: Ahead of the fourth phase of the high-stakes assembly elections in West Bengal, Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat’s convoy was allegedly attacked by Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers on Thursday.…
- India
HC orders probe in Puducherry BJP’s collection of Aadhaar data
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Thursday refused to accept the plea of the BJP’s Puducherry unit that the mobile numbers of voters connected to Aadhaar were collected by party workers during the…
- India
Youngest Congress candidate confident about her winning
Kayamkulam: Youngest Congress candidate from Kerala’s Kayamkulam, Aritha Babu on Wednesday said that is confident that she will win in the state Assembly polls. Congress has fielded 26-year-old Aritha from her native…
- Politics
Its ideological crisis for CPI-M and Congress: JP Nadda
Kannur: Upping the ante against the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front and the Congress-led United Democratic Front coalition on Saturday, Bharatiya Janata Party national president J P Nadda, who reached here for election…
- Kerala
BJP candidate offers tributes at Left’s Punnapara memorial, triggers row
Alappuzha (Kerala): A controversy erupted in Kerala on Friday after a BJP candidate paid floral tributes at the famous Punnapra Vayalar Smriti memorial, jointly managed by the CPI(M) and the CPI, ahead of…
- Hyderabad
Left parties call for road blockade on Feb 6 in TS in support of farmers’ stir
Hyderabad: The CPI, CPI(M) and some other opposition parties in Telangana on Tuesday decided to stage a road blockade on February 6 in support of the ongoing agitation by farmers near Delhi demanding…
- News
Police seize explosives from arrested Maoist couriers
Kothagudem: Five people, who worked as couriers for the banned CPI (Maoist) and allegedly planning to carry out attacks on police personnel were arrested in Bhadradri Kothagudem district on Wednesday, police said.…
- Crime
CPI(M) branch secretary stabbed to death in Kerala’s Thrissur
Thrissur: Communist Party of India (Marxist) Puthussery branch secretary PU Sanoop (26) was allegedly stabbed to death by a group of men in Kerala’s Thrissur district. As per the police, three other CMI (M) activists also sustained injuries in…
- Crime and Accident
Woman commits Suicide note accuses two CPI-M workers of mental torture
Thiruvananthapuram: A 41-year-old woman ASHA the health worker was found hanging in an unused building here and in a suicide note purportedly written by her she has accused two local CPI-M members of…
- India
Bhoomi Pujan a violation of Constitution’s spirit: Sitaram Yechury
New Delhi [India]: CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Wednesday that the ‘Bhoomi Pujan’ for the Ram Temple in Ayodhya was a “naked exploitation” of people’s religious sentiments for partisan, political…