CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury has written a letter to the chief election commissioner Sunil Arora on May 12, 2019, seeking initiation of action against the prime minister, Narendra Modi for making outrageous claims with regard to the Balakot air strikes. Below we publish the full text of the letter.
ASHOK Dhawale, Central Committee member , CPI(M) said that the Modi – Shah duo is bent upon dividing India in the name of religion, community, caste and region which is dangerous to the unity and integrity of the country. He was addressing a massive rally at Ropar – Punjab, on May 11. The rally had been organised in support of Raghunath Singh, CPI(M) candidate from Sri Anandpur Sahib constituency. He further said that CPI(M) had always worked for the unity and integrity of the nation and brotherhood among the people .
A massive rally was organised today in Kolkata condemning BJP violence during Amit Shah's rally. BJP goons had also demolished statue of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, the iconic reformer.
ODISHA is reeling under one of the worst cyclones since the Super Cyclone of 1999. The Fani Cyclone that hit the Odisha Coast wreaked havoc and unprecedented destruction of houses, crops, trees, electricity poles and also took the lives of around 70 people. More than 14 million people are estimated to have been affected in a region spread over 16,000 villages. Standing paddy crop, coconut trees, cashew trees and various other crops on 1,52,000 hectares are estimated to have been destroyed. Livestock has also faced the brunt with many animals reported killed.
AS people in 59 Lok Sabha seats across the country voted to elect their candidates, a repoll in 168 booths of West Tripura parliamentary seat went off without much uproar in the mainstream media.
However, it demanded a national headline or at least a place in the front pages of the national media.
LAWYERS have expressed displeasure to the conduct of a sexual harassment complaint against the CJI by an ex-staffer. Justice has not been imparted and the procedure adopted was faulty. The manner in which ad-hoc committee of three judges of the Supreme Court has conducted the inquiry in respect of allegations of sexual harassment against the CJI, speaks about the hush up done to the particular case.
Below we publish excerpts from the speech delivered by Pinarayi Vijayan, chief minister of Kerala, at the opening session of World Reconstruction Conference held in Geneva on May 13, 2019.
IT is now exactly five months since the mass protests in Sudan (started on December 19, 2018) had started that led to the deposition of the dictator Omar Al-Bashir. For all these five months, the people of Sudan have continued with their protests with lot of determination. They did not rest after Al-Bashir had stepped down as the ruler of the country and the military took over. They demanded the immediate transfer of power to a civilian administration representing all sections of the Sudanese society.
SUPER cyclone Fani formed in the Bay of Bengal stormed Odisha on May 3 as it hit the land near Puri town and damaged the 480 km long coast and the nearby areas of the state, from Ganjam to Balasore districts. The ravaging cyclone smashed Puri town, capital city Bhubaneswar, urban centres and villages, of 14 out of 30 districts of Odisha.
THE CPI(M), which has fielded Dalip Singh Kayath as the Party candidate from Mandi parliamentary seat of Himachal Pradesh, is making a determined effort to tilt the election in favour of lakhs of toiling masses of the state.