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| 'The BJP forged a politico-business nexus in K'taka' | 22-NOV-09 |
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| The recent crisis in the BJP government in Karnataka was focused on whether B S Yeddyurappa would remain as the chief minister or would the rebels get their way, or whether the BJP central leadership would succeed in affecting a compromise. |
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| Roles reversed | 20-NOV-09 |
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| How much the world has changed is best exemplified by its attitude towards China. A journalist asked CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury whether India should adopt the Chinese model of development. Yechury was quick to reply, “In 1978, when Mao Zedong said China needs capitalism, everyone criticised him. |
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| CPI's fresh blame on CPI(M) for poll failures | 20-NOV-09 |
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| Heaping fresh blame on the CPI(M) for taking "unilateral" decisions, a senior CPI leader and West Bengal minister today said being the largest constituent it has to share major responsibility for election debacles. |
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| No one's home | 17-NOV-09 |
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| Interestingly, the familiar Left faces were not to be seen on various TV channels after the party got wiped out in the West Bengal by-elections. Sitaram Yechury, the most visible face of the CPI(M) on nightly television, was in Madrid participating in the 18th Congress of the Spanish Communist Party while Brinda Karat was in Brazil attending another fraternal party’s conference. Prakash Karat was in London around the same time. |
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| Mamata faces singer MP's music, plays down issue | 17-NOV-09 |
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| Embarrassed by a surprise attack from her party MP, Kabir Suman, on the work culture in the Trinamool Congress (TC), party chief Mamata Banerjee tried to diffuse the situation by giving him a “guest” status in the party. |
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| TC steals show in Bengal; more cracks in red fort | 11-NOV-09 |
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| The outcome of the by-elections to 10 Assembly seats in West Bengal has dealt a further blow to the sagging morale of the ruling Left Front, which lost all but one of the total 10 seats that went to the polls. |
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| TC-Cong combine bags 5 seats, leading in 3 others | 10-NOV-09 |
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| The CPI(M)-led ruling Left Front in West Bengal appeared heading for another poll debacle after the Lok Sabha elections with the Trinamool Congress-Congress combine winning five of the 10 seats where by-elections were held last Saturday. |
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| Cong beats LDF in Kerala assembly by-polls | 10-NOV-09 |
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| Continuing with its impressive performance in the Lok Sabha polls, the Congress- led UDF today retained all three assembly seats where bypolls were held, routing the ruling CPI(M)-led LDF. |
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| Abode of turmoil | 08-NOV-09 |
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| It is an eloquent comment on the deplorable state of the country’s higher education system that Visva Bharati, a central university founded by none else than India’s first Nobel laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore, was allowed to remain shut for about six weeks from September 24. Worse, neither the education ministry at the Centre nor the government of West Bengal, where the university is located, intervened in any constructive manner to defuse the crisis. At the centre of the controversy was the university’s vice-chancellor (VC), Rajat Kanta Ray, an academician of repute. The striking employees and teachers had alleged corruption, financial mismanagement and nepotism in a few of the decisions Mr Ray had taken. The VC’s response to these charges was to call for an external inquiry not only into the allegations against his conduct, but also into the “activities” of some of the workers. |
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| TMC creating lawlessness in West Bengal: CPI(M) | 06-NOV-09 |
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| The ruling Left Front in West Bengal today took a swipe at Union Home Minister P Chidambaram for telling the state government to ensure law and order, saying it was the Trinamool Congress which was responsible for "lawlessness". |
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