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According to Murshidabad district panchayat election department sources, the polling will be held on Monday in 1,777 seats in 19 blocks out of total 26 blocks where 5,514 candidates are contesting. (Representational image)

3 TMC councillors hurt; 10 Opposition candidates back out

The ruling party has also captured the Murshidabad zila parishad with 48 seats, 319 panchayat samity seats.

14 May 2018 2:22 AM

Cadre of both parties carried their respective flags during the protest programme.

CPM-BJP join hands; saffron party calls it ‘isolated incident’

The CPI(M), with an opposite ideology to that of the BJP, never loses an opportunity to describe the saffron party as a “divisive force”.

09 May 2018 1:54 AM

Even in the best of times Sino-Indian relations are fraught with instant danger — it is like a weather vane that can turn any time, at the slightest pretext or provocation, owing to profound trust deficit, which can’t be wished away.

See what’s behind the Sino-Indian ‘reset’

China has regularly and repeatedly announced that its territorial claim is its sovereignty, hence it’s non-negotiable.

08 May 2018 12:50 AM

Marx still relevant, but India’s Left flounders

The CPI(M)’s problem is that it’s stuck over the ethics of political economy that “is acquisition, work, thrift, sobriety”.

07 May 2018 1:13 AM

Congress extends support to CPM for May 28 bypoll

Senior Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition Abdul Mannan on Thursday said his party is unlikely to contest the Maheshtala byelection.

04 May 2018 12:24 AM

Sources said that a CPI(M) whole-timer gets a salary of around Rs 5,000-Rs 8,000 per month depending on the state.

Dalit leadership vacuum in CPM

Sources said the leadership vacuum of dalits is only at the top as nearly 70% of the leadership in states comprises of dalits and OBCs together.

01 May 2018 1:53 AM

CPI(M) general-secretary Sitaram Yechury (Photo: PTI)

Yechury re-elected, CPM gains focus

Mr Karat has hewed to the traditional anti-Congress line of the communists formulated to defeat Jawaharlal Nehru’s Congress.

24 Apr 2018 12:32 AM

CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said that the party will chalk out its 'electoral-tactical line' on the basis of state-based ground realities. (Photo: File/PTI

CPI(M) not to have alliance with Cong, but understanding: Sitaram Yechury

Sitaram Yechury was unanimously elected CPI(M) general secretary on Sunday after weeks of uncertainty.

23 Apr 2018 8:45 AM

Sitaram Yechury hits a six at meet, re-elected general secretary

Mr Yechury, along with Karat, was instrumental in creating an impregnable leftist bastion at the JNU.

23 Apr 2018 12:52 AM

CPM’s dilemma: How it should remake itself

In claiming that it is the only party that can offer an “alternative policy” agenda, the CPI(M) has to fully and finally resolve the crisis within.

23 Apr 2018 12:12 AM

Sitaram Yehcury had taken over as general secretary of the CPI(M) from Prakash Karat in the 21st party congress, which was held in Visakhapatnam, in 2015. (Photo: File)

Sitaram Yechury re-elected as CPI(M) general secretary

His election to the post for the second time was approved by the Left party's newly-elected 95-member central committee.

22 Apr 2018 2:44 PM

CPM differences widen at meet

In a first, delegate seeks secret voting on tactical line.

20 Apr 2018 1:28 AM

Congress president Rahul Gandhi (Photo: PTI)

Cong tieup to be key focus of CPM congress?

The leadership is split on whether or not in such a scenario the committed anti-BJP vote will swing towards the Congress anyways.

17 Apr 2018 12:47 AM

CPM will contest 19 seats in Karnataka polls

It might be recalled that both Mr Yechury and Mr Karat have been at loggerheads over an alliance with Congress.

31 Mar 2018 2:55 AM

CPM: Congress’ UPA-3 plan will not be successful

Giving examples of regional parties like the BJD, TRS and TDP, the CPI(M) said such parties would not accept to forge an alliance with the Congress.

23 Mar 2018 2:25 AM

The party also asked for complete ban on the use of pellet shotguns by security forces during containing protests in the State. (Photo: Representational Image/PTI)

CPI(M) pushes for repeal of 'draconian' laws in J&K, peace talks with Pak

The party also expressed serious concern over the attacks on Kashmiri students, businessmen and others outside J&K.

20 Mar 2018 9:11 PM

Austerity can’t deliver dreams: Why CPM lost

The CPI(M) government in Tripura was, likewise, as remote from any Left-ruled enclave as the West Indies are from cricket’s birthplace.

16 Mar 2018 2:23 AM

CPI(ML) leader Kavita Krishnan, who also addressed the Left supporters, said the social media campaign of the BJP-RSS against Lenin, calling him a foreigner, was not justified at all. (Photo: File)

7 Left parties march protesting felling of Lenin's statue, stopped by police

Disfiguring statues of Lenin and Periyar shows BJP's intolerant approach towards other ideologies, said CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat.

09 Mar 2018 5:31 PM

After shock in Tripura, can CPM learn right lessons?

Yechury it seems backs a future in aligning with the Congress in a wider Opposition unity to defeat the BJP.

07 Mar 2018 3:12 AM

Remains of the five-foot-tall statue of Lenin which was allegedly demolished by a pay-loader at Belonia in Tripura on Monday afternoon and was thrown at the nearby jungle. The statue, made of fiberglass, was inaugurated at College Square at Belonia a few months back by CPM politburo member Prakash Karat. (Photo: PTI)

Section 144 in Tripura areas as CPM complains of attacks

In the recent Assembly elections, the BJP demolished the Left citadel in Tripura, winning a two-thirds majority with its ally IPFT.

07 Mar 2018 1:05 AM

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