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Hyderabad, March 17 (IANS) The Supreme Court’s refusal to review its order declaring Hyderabad a ‘free zone’ for recruitments in government jobs triggered a fresh row, with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K. Rosaiah Wednesday calling an all-party meeting to decide future course of action.
Rosaiah told the state assembly that he had no objection to passing [...]

Sherghati (Bihar), Mar 17 (ANI): A civil engineer of a private construction firm, who was briefly abducted and detained by the Maoists, was rescued from a remote forest region of Bihar’’s Gaya district on Tuesday.

Heavily-armed personnel of the Revolutionary Communist Centre (RCC), a breakaway faction of the proscribed CPI (Maoists), raided the office of the [...]

The region’s rescue helicopter service says it is vital that it raises a million dollars more than it did last year.
General manager Kris Beavis says donations dropped by about 12 percent during last year’s global financial crisis, but costs are still rising.
Mr Beavis says this year’s operating budget of $6.5-million is almost double what it [...]

New Delhi, Mar 16 (ANI): The Communist Party of India (CPI) slammed the Congress-led Central Government for not addressing the problem of price rise in the country.
Talking to reporters here on Monday, CPI General Secretary B Bardhan accused the government of hoodwink people in the name of austerity drive.
“The austerity drive itself was a farce, [...]

New Delhi, March 5 (ANI): Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni on Friday described the ”paid news” as a serious matter and, said right of the public to receive correct and balanced information needs to be ensured.
In response to a ”Calling Attention Notice” on the issue, Soni said in the Rajya Sabha today, ” There [...]

WARSAW, March 1 (Reuters) – Polish inflation may ease to about 2.5 percent year-on-year in March, a finance ministry official said on Monday.
“Inflation will continue to ease, also thanks to the statistical base effect and stable food prices, and near the central bank’s 2.5 percent target in March,” Slawomir Dudek, deputy director of the [...]

WARSAW, March 1 (Reuters) – Poland’s inflation probably eased to 3.0 percent year-on-year in February, down from 3.6 percent in January, the finance ministry estimated on Monday.
Poland’s central bank targets inflation of 2.5 percent.
In month-on-month terms, inflation in February likely stood at 0.3 percent, the ministry also estimated in its statement. (Reporting by Kuba [...]

Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 17(ANI): In reaction to Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor’s remark about the government’s austerity drive on a social networking site, activists from the All India Youth Federation (AIYF), the youth [...]

Kolkata, Sept 16 (ANI): Leaders of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) have charged “imperialist forces” of masterminding the elimination of their party cadres and also dividing the poor people.

This was voiced at a mass rally of the Students Federation of India (SFI) and the Democratic Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), the [...]

Gaya (Bihar), Sep 14 (ANI): Rebels from a Maoist group in Bihar recently quit and joined another group after they alleged that the former group had high caste ideology.

Defected activists of the Communist Party India (Maoist), which operates in and around Bihar and Jharkhand, allege that the group [...]

Madurai (Tamil Nadu), Sep 12 (ANI): Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat was released on bail on Saturday.

On Saturday morning, she was taken into custody along with some All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) activists at the Tirupuragundram police station [...]

Kolkata, Sep.12 (ANI): The former Communist Party of India (Marxist) member Somnath Chatterjee on Saturday hit out at CPI(M) leadership terming the charges it levelled against him were “a character assassination” and the current political culture of the present leadership made the party [...]

Madurai (TN), Sep 12 (ANI): CPI (M) politburo member Brinda Karat was arrested on Saturday at a village in Tamil Nadu.

According to sources Karat was arrested with some All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) activists when they were on their way to a village in Madurai district.

Sources added that she was arrested because she was [...]

New Delhi, Sep 7 (ANI): Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today condemned the killing of five innocent villagers, including two students by the cadres of the Communist Party of India (Maoists) at Pundigiri in Ranchi district of Jharkhand on [...]

Ranchi, Sep 7 (ANI): At least five people have been killed by naxals at Pundigiri village, about 60 kms from Ranchi this morning.

According to police, activists of banned group Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) entered Pundigiri village in the Tamar block, abducted five villagers and took them to a forest where they were shot dead. [...]

New Delhi, Sep.6 (ANI): The Politburo of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) is meeting for the second day on Sunday, and all eyes are on whether West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will attend after having skipped the opening day on Saturday (September 5).

On Saturday, the Politburo reportedly discussed the Vedic Village land scam [...]

New Delhi, Sep 5 (ANI): The Communist Party of India (Marxist) dismissed reports that West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was deliberately avoiding party’s two-day politburo meet, which began today on Saturday in the national capital.

According to reports, senior party leaders including Brinda Karat claimed [...]

New Delhi, Aug 29 (ANI): The Union Home Ministry has condemned the brutal killing of four innocent civilians by Maoists in Jharkhand.

On Thursday night, four persons, including a minor girl and a woman were brutally shot dead by the left ultras in Bundu area near Ranchi.

In a communiqué the Home Ministry, has described the banned [...]

Sundargarh (Orissa), Aug 25 (ANI): Maoists blew up a railway station and abducted three railway employees in Orissa’s Sundargarh district on Tuesday morning.

According to the police, about 20 left-wing ultras blew up Roxy railway station, located in a remote area under K Bolang police station and triggered the explosion after asking the employees to [...]

Ranchi, Aug 24 (ANI): Maoists blew up a railway track in Latehar and a mobile phone tower in Palamau district in Jharkhand as they began their 48-hour shutdown in five state on Monday.

According to the police, about 20 left-wing ultras blew up the railway tracks between Kumundi and Hehegada railway station in Latehar district, [...]