Communist Party of India News

A senior Congress leader in Kerala, Rajmohan Unnithan was given bail Monday, a day after he was held allegedly for immoral trafficking.

India Gazette Thursday 24th December, 2009 The bodies of two Communist Party of India-Marxist workers were recovered Thursday from Belpahari area in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, the regional TV channel 24 reported.

Only one of the six former Maoist rebels who contested the five-phased Jharkhand assembly polls Nov 25-Dec 18 managed to pull off a victory.

Victims of violence: Lopamudra, daughter of CPI leader Amiyo Sengupta, in her ransacked house with her three-month-old child at Dahijuri village in West Bengal on Tuesday.

If 2009 was bad, 2010 would be "bloodier" if the government goes ahead with its planned offensive against the Maoist jungle bases, a top guerrilla leader has vowed while warning of more retaliatory violence in the months to come.

A fast track justice system was needed, Communist Party of India-Marxist MP Brinda Karat said in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, while referring to the 1990 molestation of a 14-year-old girl in Chandigarh, for which a former Haryana director general of police was sentenced to six months in prison.

Guwahati, Dec 21 : Communist Party of India General Secretary Prakash Karat, said here on Monday that controlling the price line is the responsibility of the Union Government instead of the state governments.

Four people belonging to different political parties died in clashes in three districts of West Bengal Sunday, even as union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee asked the state government to take measures to stop the violence.

Kolkata, Dec 20 Suspected Maoist rebels killed two Communist Party of India-Marxist workers and abducted two policemen in West Bengal's West Midnapore district Sunday, police said.

The Communist Party of India-Marxist Sunday urged the central government to immediately abolish futures trading of essentials, citing hoarding of food grain by multinational companies for such business as one of the major reasons for spiralling prices.

Ruling party bribing voters "systematically" MADURAI: The Communist Party of India will lay siege to Raj Bhavan in Chennai on February 2 if the Centre and the State governments do not take steps to stop attacks on Indian fishermen by the Sri Lankan navy, and withdraw Marine Fisheries Bill, 2009.

Kolkata, Dec 18: Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Prakash Karat Friday said his party, being the largest partner of West Bengal's ruling Left Front, would play a greater role in the coalition, but other constituents should also work responsibly to strengthen unity.

Four Communist Party of India-Marxist activists were allegedly shot dead by Maoists and their associate People's Committee Against Police Atrocities in West Bengal's West Midnapore district, police said Friday.

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 15 : The Congress-led opposition in Kerala Tuesday criticised the Communist Party of India-Marxist for continuing links with the Peoples Democratic Party led by Abdul Nazir Maudany.

New Delhi, Dec 17 member Brinda Karat said: "This is an issue that concerns all Indian citizens.

KOLKATA: Farmers in West Midnapore district of West Bengal may not have to repay their crop loans.

David Coleman Headley, the Pakistani-American terror suspect charged with scouting targets for the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, figured in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday with the CPI-M demanding that the government clarify how he had been able to travel in India almost at will.

NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India on Monday reiterated that the developed countries, including the United States, cannot jettison the accepted approach of common but differentiated responsibility of cuts in emission rate.

NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India on Monday expressed serious concern at the U.S. not allowing India to interrogate David Coleman Headley, a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative of Pakistani origin, in connection with the Mumbai terror attacks, and asked the government to be "bold enough" to demand access.

Kolkata, Dec 13 : On the last day of his five-year term as West Bengal governor, Gopal Krishna Gandhi Sunday called on Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu, who said "I have been quite happy with you". The nonagenarian Communist Party of India-Marxist leader's expression of satisfaction with the stint of Mahatma Gandhi's grandson at Raj Bhavan here is ...