CPI(M) ups ante against UPA; decides to form joint platform
Baseball and softball officially applied for inclusion in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Thursday as they look to earn back their spot in the Games they lost after 2008.
A total of 1,203 candidates, including 109 women, are contesting for the 140 assembly seats in which a total of 2.61 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise.
UPA-Left coordination committee meeting on Feb 13
MOTIMMO pearls have been designed to appeal to youngsters who want light-weight, elegant, trendy jewellery.
"If you have to stay in this country, you will have to use swadesi items," Ramdev told reporters in Mumbai.
"We will observe January 24 as anti-imperialism day and the campaign will culminate in a big protest meeting at New Delhi and other parts of the country during Mr Bush's visit," he told a press conference in Hyderabad.
The Left leaders are unhappy over the manner in which the UPA government is going ahead with disinvestment of profit\nmaking public sector companies or inviting foreign direct investment.
The CPI (M), ruling in West Bengal and Kerala, has strongly advocated for trade unions in the BPO- IT sector but will not favour forced closures during strikes and bandhs.
The Left parties will oppose opening of the retail sector to Foreign Direct Investment when they meet United Progrssive Alliance leaders at a meeting of the coordination committee to be held after a gap of four months on October 27
A convention would be held in Delhi at the end of October on the issue of foreign policy, he added. \n
The government has said it is constantly working towards reviewing the improving the MPLAD scheme.
Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday met President Pranab Mukherjee and leaders of political parties in an attempt to find an amicable solution to the problem of division in New Delhi Andhra Pradesh and creation of Telangana state.
Shah said the Congress was not rooted in any ideology or principles and was sort of a "special purpose vehicle" to secure freedom.
Notwithstanding the softening of its stand on passing a resolution in Parliament on the Indo-US nuclear deal, the Communist Party of India-Marxist on Sunday said "the sense of the House" should be reflected on the issue.
'Any mistake in the defense of secularism, any lapse in economic policy that affects the people, any giving in to pressure from America, we shall come out,'warns CPI-M leader Prakash Karat.
As authorities released water from Gangapur dam, the river level rose significantly, causing many bridges in Old Nashik area to undergo water.
Govt 'will have to repent' if India repeated the vote against Iran, the Left parties said.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist on Tuesday said the Left parties would not withdraw support to the United Progressive Alliance government.
He also asked the government to spell out its stand on the voting on the Iran nuclear issue at the IAEA board meeting next month.
The Supreme Court's refusal to stay execution of Yakub Memon on Wednesday drew sharp reactions from legal experts.
In an unprecedented show of solidarity, thousands of students along with scholars, academics and the intelligentsia on Thursday hit the streets of New Delhi decrying the arrest of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar over charges of sedition and demanding his immediate release.
He will seek to finalise a coordination committee between the alliance and Left parties by Sunday.
Rajini Murugan, Tharai Thappattai, Kathakali, Gethu...
'When we make these action machismo films, the stupidest thing is to show that the hero sails through a thousand people. It's a tradition we have grown up with.' 'We don't have the basis of creating a Bruce Lee or a Jackie Chan.'
'We had written to the army chief urging his intervention into the matter, but no action has been taken in this regard. Hence we have decided to move the Supreme Court,' Karat said.
Karat, however, clarified that the third front should be formed on the basis of a policy and not as an electoral arrangement.
Celebrated boxer M C Mary Kom will aim for a historic sixth gold at the AIBA Women' World Championships, the build up of which has been marred by a row over lone Kosovan boxer's participation and poor quality air in the national capital.
Former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi paid rich compliments to young seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar terming him as cricketer of his kind and prayed that the he remains like this for the rest of his career.
With cinematographer Abraham Williams in her home state of Hawaii.
