"The execution of the death sentence will be a form of judicial assassination," the CPI(M) said, urging all sections of the people to protest the death sentence.
CPM said the Bofors gun deal was "an important case highlighting corruption in high places" and did not deserve such an end.
BCCI spokesman Rajiv Shukla has told Greg Chappell to refrain from making comments about Members of Parliament.
Apparently not giving up hopes on persuading the Left on the Indo-US nuclear deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had said at the India-Brazil-South Africa summit on October 17 that the process of evolving a 'meaningful consensus is still on.'
Left parties and BJP launched an attack on the government on Tuesday over its move to open up retail trading to foreign direct investment saying this would shrink employment opportunities.
'Who are these people on the streets?' 'They are youth and students who were hoodwinked, bluffed by Modi for the last seven years, with a promise of 2 crore jobs every year.' 'And Mamata sings the same tune.' 'But the youth can see that as long as there is Mamata or Modi, there is no hope.'
'When there is a spontaneous movement against the State, it is easily crushed. But it is difficult to crush a guided movement because it has the support of activists and social workers'
CPM leader Sitaram Yechury said that there could be talks between the Left and the Congress once UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi returned from South Africa
The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 209 points at 14,458
Kim did not rule out diplomacy with the Biden administration despite that Pyongyang called Biden a 'rabid dog' after Biden labelled Kim a 'thug'.
Elections for 19 Rajya Sabha seats spread across eight states will be held on Friday with the contest in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan promising to be a close affair between the BJP and the Congress.
The first phase of the trade deal includes IP protection and enforcement, ending forced technology transfer, dramatic expansion of American agriculture, removing barriers to American financial services, ending currency manipulation, rebalancing the US-China trade relationship and effective dispute resolution.
The government is under strong pressure from its Left party allies to scrap the Technical Expert Group on Patent Laws headed by R A Mashelkar, former chief of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
In a bid to enter the Rajya Sabha from West Bengal, Communist Party of India-Marxist politburo members Sitaram Yechuri and Brinda Karat on Monday filed their nominations for the upcoming election to the Upper House.
'Indian diplomacy faltered amidst multiple failures of statecraft.' 'The functionaries responsible must be held to account for their abject failure,' asserts Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Brinda Karat on Wednesday attacked Karnataka minister G Parameshwara over his objectionable remarks after women were molested en masse in Bengaluru, saying he has no right to continue in office after the "reprehensible" statement.
While Health minister K K Shylaja would lead the chain at Kasargod, senior CPM leader Brinda Karat would be the last person at the end of the chain in Thiruvananthapuram.
The CPI(M) has asked the government to express its disapproval.
Yechuri said the Indian government has recognised multiparty democracy and constitutional monarchy as two pillars of Nepal's democracy and any deviation from that will not be in the interest of Nepal.
Yechuri also appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to adopt the pattern followed by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya in key policies
Gen Rawat said, while addressing a gathering at a health summit, leaders emerge from crowds but are not those who lead people in 'inappropriate directions'.
A medical board has been constituted for the treatment of Anil Biswas.
Govt, Left sort out differences over employment scheme
UPA-Left coordination committee meeting on Feb 13
Thirty years after the massacre at Tiananmen Square, coerced collective amnesia envelops the Chinese nation about that horrific event. Claude Arpi glances back at how the student uprising could have changed the Middle Kingdom forever had the Chinese Communist party not traveled on the route of martial law.
'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.
Doval's visit was 'part of regular high-level engagements between India and China', an Indian Embassy press release in Beijing said.
A senior CPI-M leader said there is no comparison between Sangh Parivar's demand for a complete ban on beef and Catholic Church's call for a ban on liquor.
Biswas had suffered a massive brain haemorrhage.
He will seek to finalise a coordination committee between the alliance and Left parties by Sunday.
'The BJP's economic policy narrowed the employment potential. Go to any urban area, you will see closed \n\nfactories. The small sector belongs to the middle class, and their future is ruined,' says CPI-M leader Prakash \n\nKarat.
BJP spokesman V K Malhotra said they would not allow any discussion in the Lok Sabha until the 'tainted' ministers step down.
The former West Bengal chief minister will explain the Communist Party of India-Marxist's views on the implementation of the Common Minimum Programme.
But the party said it could do little about it as per the existing laws.
Karat, however, clarified that the third front should be formed on the basis of a policy and not as an electoral arrangement.
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