The parties went to the extent of pleading they should be given a fresh opportunity to improve their electoral performance
The three parties said they should be given a fresh opportunity to improve their electoral performance
Yechury and Raja had both written to governor Satya Pal Malik on Thursday informing him of their visit and requesting him to facilitate their entry
The change in leadership comes after the party's worst-ever performance in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections
Pulses inflation stood at -0.89 per cent versus -2.25% (month on month)
Slight pick up in CPI driven by higher food and fuel prices and a depreciating rupee
'We don't want to break with the Left and go with the Congress,' CPI chief Sudhakar Reddy said
The CPI is the second largest partner in the CPI(M)- led LDF government in Kerala
Food prices rose 1.93% on the year, slower than a 2.01% annual increase in February
Says Congress, being a pan-India party, should introspect seriously the current political situation
Largely helped by a favourable base effect
A BJP activist was allegedly hacked to death in Kannur district, last Wednesday
The fall in inflation and industrial output may bolster hopes for an interest rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India
The government this week notified parliament that it would introduce the target of 4%
Before stepping down as RBI Gov on Sept 4, Rajan completed his inflation target and staffed up the 6-member MPC
This is the second consecutive month that the retail prices have cooled down
CPI inflation for April was 5.47%, revised upwards from 5.39% earlier
Food inflation eased slightly to 5.21% in March and manufacturing shows marginal growth of 0.7% in February
Allow me to make some observations about Vikram Gopal's review of the book, The Communist Party of India and the Indian Emergency by David Lockwood (March 31). The policies adopted by the Communist Party of India (CPI), when it was undivided as well post split, were totally Soviet Union-centric. This caused the downfall of the party.Since inception, the CPI's standard policy had been to seek guidance from the erstwhile Soviet Union. Nothing wrong with that, as several well-meaning politicians the world over thought that Lenin and subsequently, Stalin were messiahs. These politicians believed that by following their dicta and doing their bidding, the goal of socialism would be achieved.The Imperialist War, which started in 1939, was termed the People's War in 1941 at the behest of the then Communist International (Comintern), the policy-making body of the Communist world. The Comintern gave this dictum, as Adolf Hitler opened the Eastern Front on June 22, 1941, and attacked the Soviet U
Veteran CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta did not elaborate on his remark