THE Left Democratic Front (LDF) has expanded further in Kerala as four more parties, the Indian National League, Kerala Congress (B), Democratic Kerala Congress and Loktantrik Janata Dal join it, said A Vijayaraghavan, the convener of the front.While the Loktantrik Janata Dal is led at the national level by Sharad Yadav and Veerendra Kumar, MP, MV Sreyams Kumar is the chief at the state-level. The Democratic Kerala Congress led by Francis George, former MP, is a splinter group of Kerala Congress.

AT a time when the entire officers and workers of BSNL are engaged in continuous struggles against the pro-Reliance Jio and anti-BSNL steps being taken by the government, BSNLEU, the biggest trade union of BSNL, has conducted its 9th all India conference at Mysuru. The conference which was held from December 17-20, 2018, has taken many important decisions to defend BSNL and the future of the employees.INAUGURAL SESSIONThe four-day conference got kick-started with a colourful cultural programme, followed by the hoisting of the national flag and the union's red flag.

FIFTY years ago, in the morning of December 25, 1968, the landlords of  Keezhvenmani village in East Tanjore district, Tamil Nadu, unleashed one of the most violent attacks on dalits in independent India, killing 44 people including women and children.The attacks began as the landless dalits in the village started to agitate for wage hike under the banner of CPI(M), which was gaining ground in the state.

CPI(M) Performance in Rajasthan Assembly Election 2018 Total votes received by the Party: 4, 32, 001 (1.2%) Average votes for the 28 seats that we contested: 15, 428 votes (In 2013, total votes secured by the Party were 2, 69, 002 (0.9%). We contested 38 seats and the average votes received were 7, 079 votes)Balwan Punia  THE newly elected MLA from Bhadra is 40 years old and was the former Hanumangarh district president of SFI.

IN a statement issued on December 15 expressing pain and sorrow over the brutal killing of civilians by security forces at Kharpora Sirnoo village of Pulwama district, CPI(M) leader Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami said for the BJP, Kashmir is expendable for its narrow electoral interests.This horrible incident which took place on December 15, is a big shock and setback to any effort to restore peace in the valley. The civilian killings have become everyday norm in Kashmir now and it seems New Delhi is least bothered about this.