CPI(M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury on Monday dropped indications of a possible merger of his party and the CPI.

Karnataka chief minister B.S.

Stating that the continuance of Union textiles minister Dayanidhi Maran was “untenable”, Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary A.B. Bardhan on Monday demanded that the Prime Minister ascertain that the former was made to quit his post.

Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa left this afternoon for a keenly watched two-day visit to Delhi, the first after her AIADMK-led front staged a spectacular comeback to power in the April 13 Assembly polls.

Top CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury on Monday spoke of a possible merger of CPI and CPI(M) hoping the two Left parties can come together in the near future after their split nearly five decades ago.

The Orissa government on Saturday declared the road blockade at Dhinkia, a major part of the Posco steel project site, by the local people as illegal — thus signalling a possible swoop on the proteste

Giving a new twist to the raging debate over the Lokpal Bill, Union law and justice minister M.

Ruling out any changes in the party leadership, CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat on Sunday admitted that policy shortcomings and mistakes in the handling of Singur and Nandigram proved costly to

The plight of Kerala nurses working in the strife-torn Yemen is moving from bad to worse and their hopes of catching an early flight back home seem to have hit the stone-wall.

The plight of these Indians, prisoners in a strife-torn land far from home, is going unheard. The passports of more than 500 Indian employees of the Al Thawra Modern General Hospital in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, are with the hospital authorities and the Indian government is doing precious little to bail them out.