Rajendra Sharma from Sriganganagar

Prakash Karat, general secretary of the CPI(M) along with Sitaram Yechury, Polit Bureau member interacted with Nguyen Phu Trong, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam who was a State visit to India. Both the leaders exchanged views on the current developments and expressed happiness over the strategic partnership between India and Vietnam. Nguyen Phu Trong thanked the people of India and the CPI(M) for their support to Vietnam and expressed the need for further strengthening of people-to-people relations.

AS election campaigning ended for the single phase Madhya Pradesh assembly polls on 25th November, the CPI(M) has concentrated a large part of its effort on two constituencies in Moreina-Gwalior region -- Jaura and Gohad.
On penultimate day of campaigning, on 22nd November, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and leader of CPI(M) group in Rajya Sabha, Sitaram Yechury, addressed impressive election rallies in both the constituencies.

Prabir Purkayastha

THE negotiations between Iran and nominally P5+1, but in reality the US, have led to an interim accord in which Iran will temporarily restrict its nuclear program and the US will ease some of the sanctions on Iran. This is prelude to a permanent agreement which will spell out the terms on which Iran can continue its enrichment program and the complete lifting of all sanctions on Iran.

THE United States and Europe subsidise their agriculture massively. In the US for instance, government expenditure by way of subsidies to the agricultural sector is on average nearly half of the GDP originating from its agriculture. The figures for Europe are broadly similar. In India by contrast, government expenditure by way of subsidies to agriculture is estimated to have been less than 10 percent of the GDP originating from agriculture in the past, and is now just likely to exceed this figure.