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A B Bardhan re-elected as CPI Gen Secy for 4th time

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:41:00 -0400

Prominent Left leader A B Bardhan was on Thursday re-elected as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India for the fourth consecutive time.

Charges against Dalmiya 'baseless': Bengal Sports Minister

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:28:00 -0400

West Bengal Sports Minister Subhas Chakraborty on Wednesday described the charges against former BCCI chief Jagmohan Dalmiya as 'baseless and untrue' and alleged that he was being harassed 'unnecessarily'.

BJP questions Central Government's strategy on Tibet

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:12:00 -0400

Questioning United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's strategy on Tibet for the “fear of China”, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has expressed serious concern over the recent violent developments in Tibet over the demands for Tibet's independence.

Rahul ask youth to press for democracy within parties

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:08:00 -0400

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has asked the youth to plunge into politics and prevail upon political parties to usher in internal democracy. Noting that 70 per cent of India's population is young, Gandhi, on a campaign trail ahead of the assembly elections in Karnataka, said that while old (people) are to be respected for their experience, there is value and strength in youth as well. "In a sense, youth is the future," Rahul said.

Congress dares Vajpayee, BJP on Advani controversy

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:05:00 -0400

Former deputy prime minister L K Advani's wandering Kandahar jinn got a fresh command from the Congress party today, when the party dared former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to disown the statements of Advani, which according to the Congress party are "inaccurate and contrary to the facts".

Advani's Kandahar-comment stirs controversy

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:49:00 -0400

Following his candid confessional comment on handling of Kandahar crisis and autobiography, Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate L K Advani is again back among controversies. And, this time Advani has put his own party in a very precarious situation, where it finds itself unable to answer query as to how come a deputy prime minister was not aware of the "procedural decision" of Jaswant escorting the three dreaded terrorists to Kandahar to save lives of about 160 passengers of the hijacked plane IC-814 in December, 1999.

Narayanan, Sonia in the line of fire in Advani memoirs

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:56:00 -0400

The late President K R Narayanan, who had a strained relationship with the A B Vajpayee government, has come in for criticism from BJP leader L K Advani for procedures adopted by him during Government formation in 1998 and during its fall a year later. Along with that, Congress President Sonia Gandhi also came in for flak for her “seeds of conspiracy” to destabilise the Vajpayee government and later for the “big lie” spoken in the premises of Rashtrapati Bhavan claiming numbers in her favour to form the government.

Left Front support to Malihabadi for RS seat

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:09:00 -0400

West Bengal's ruling Left Front today formally announced that it would support the candidature of Urdu daily editor, A S Malihabadi for a Rajya Sabha seat from the state, sealing the prospect of the Trinamool Congress nominee from being re-elected to the upper house.

Minister tries to duck notice

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:01:00 -0400

The high court today asked the state police chief to serve a contempt notice on a minister after court messengers were turned away from his house and office after several hours’ wait.

CPI(M) calls Trinamool Congress mindless & directionless

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:14:00 -0500

The CPI(M) on Saturday described the Trinamool Congress as a "mindless" and "directionless" party and wondered how the opposition Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) had decided to forge an alliance with it to fight the ensuing panchayat polls in West Bengal.