CPI(ML), CPI(M) and CPI all score big in Bihar Assembly elections
CPI-M and the CPI are leading in three seats each while the CPI-ML (Liberation) is leading in 12,
Inflation shaves off your real income. But despite being specifically tasked with reining in inflation, the RBI seems unconcerned.
In an exclusive interview, Upendra Kushwaha, leader of Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP), tells Outlook the Grand Alliance is intact and that the alliance will win upcoming Bihar assembly elections.
A renowned trade union leader in West Bengal, Dasgupta went underground several times during Congress rule in the state.
Sovan Chatterjee was one of those leaders who has made a big contribution to Mamata Banerjee's rise to the post of the chief minister.
Yechury and CPI general secretary Raja had written to Satya Pal Malik on Thursday informing him of their visit and requesting him to facilitate their entry.
The Left has now its lowest-ever representation in the Lok Sabha after Independence as the CPI(M) have won only three and the CPI is left with just two seats in the 2019 general election.
The Opposition parties stood united in their criticism of the Union budget presented in the Parliament on Friday by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh blamed the BJP and the RSS for 'defaming' Kanhaiya Kumar in the 2016 Jawaharlal Nehru University sloganeering controversy.
CPI general secretary Sudhakar Reddy appealed to Tejashwi Yadav to retire RJD candidate for Begusarai Tanveer Hassan, in favour of Kanhaiya Kumar
CPI said the party took the decision to support Congress' Digvijaya Singh to save the "dignity of Parliament" after the BJP fielded Pragya Thakur as its candidate from Bhopal for the Lok Sabha elections
Fielded by the CPI, Kanhaiya Kumar, a debutant, is pitted against BJP veteran Giriraj Singh and RJD's Tanveer Hassan in Begusarai, which goes to polls on April 29 for the Lok Sabha election.
CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said deciding on candidates was the internal matter of a political party and no other party needed to intervene in that.
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan's remarks came shortly after the Congress announced in New Delhi that Rahul Gandhi was going to contest from Wayanad as well as Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.
Kanhaiya Kumar's jibe at Giriraj Singh, a Union minister, comes at a time when the BJP MP has been reportedly miffed with the party for not letting him contest Lok Sabha elections from Nawada
The announcement of the seat-sharing formula by the Grand Alliance had evoked resentment from CPI secretary general Sudhakar Reddy
The leaders told the Election Commission the people of the country doubted the efficacy of EVMs and this issue needs to be redressed.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.