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New Delhi, Mar 5 (ANI): Union Home Secretary G K Pillai said on Friday that the Maoists have formulated an agenda to overthrow the Indian democratic system by 2050.
Addressing a seminar on “Left Wing Extremism Situation in India”, at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis Pillai said: “Documents which were found revealed that [...]

London, Sept 16 (ANI): Gianfranco Fini, Italy’s speaker of parliament, is suing a newspaper owned by Silvio Berlusconi’s brother for threatening “red light” revelations about him.

Il Giornale had suggested that Fini, the 57-year-old speaker of parliament’s lower house and a former foreign minister, [...]

New Delhi, July 15 (ANI): Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has admitted that the state machinery has underestimated the Maoists and failed to curb their activities in the country.

Speaking in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, Chidambaram said the government had failed to tackle the Maoists with the seriousness they [...]

New Delhi, July 15 (NAI): Alarmed by spread of the Maoist tentacles, Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday admitted to government’s failure in curbing the menace.

Speaking in Rajya Sabha, Chidambaram said, the government had underestimated the Maoist challenge as result of [...]

London, July 4 (ANI): Spanish football giant Real Madrid are expected to bid for Chelsea star Ashley Cole, after he rejected a new deal with the Blues.

According to reports, Cole has rejected the new contract which would have left him at least 30,000 pounds-a-week short [...]

New Delhi, June 21 (ANI): The full-fledged operation of the special anti-Naxal force, the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA) battalion, in naxalite effected states is set to start soon to combat the growing Left-wing extremism in the country.

According to sources, about 2,000 personnel of COBRA have already been deployed in Chhattisgarh and Orissa.

Nearly [...]

London, May 25 (ANI): Fathers of daughters are more politically inclined towards Left-wing because girls are more socially conscious, say researchers.

Economists claim that they have found a link between the number of daughters and sons in a household and their father’s political views.

The researchers analysed data in the British Household Panel Survey, and [...]

Ankara – Seven police officers and a television cameraman were injured in Istanbul Monday in a shootout between police and three members of a left-wing group that began after police raided a number of houses in the Turkish city early Monday. Istanbul Governor Muammer Guler said the raids started at 5:30 am (0230 GMT) and [...]

Paris (France), Apr.17 (ANI): French president Nicholas Sarkozy has managed to insult three of his country’s closest allies over a brief lunch at the Elysée Palace.

Sarkozy described U S President Obama was inexperienced and badly briefed on climate change, the Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero wasn’t very clever and German Chancellor Angela [...]

La Paz, April 10 (DPA) Bolivia’s President Evo Morales is on a hunger strike to force the National Congress to pass a law.
The law would provide for new elections in December and allow Morales to bid for a second five-year term in office.
While the left wing Morales commands a majority in the lower house, the [...]

A spate of “bossnappings” by French workers has put President Nicolas Sarkozy in a tight spot, caught between the need to enforce the law and the risk of exacerbating unrest during the economic downturn.
Managers have been held hostage at factories for up to 24 hours by staff angry about layoff plans in four separate incidents [...]

Kathmandu, Apr 6 (ANI): A shutdown called by 18 different Left wing parties including CPN (Maoist) led by Matrika Yadav crippled normal life in Nepal on Monday.

The strike was called to prevent mass assemblies called by the Unified CPN (Maoist) in various cities.

The shutdown has affected transportation as both long and short-route vehicles remained [...]

Taipei – Taiwan said Thursday it did not oppose to its longtime ally El Salvador’s possibly establishing diplomatic ties with the island’s political rival China.
“What we care is to secure our relations” with El Salvador, said Taiwan’s foreign minister Francisco Ou.
His comment came after El Salvador’s new President-elect Maurico Funes said Wednesday he would consider [...]

Caracas  – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday called upon his followers “not to get overexcited” with incoming US President Barack Obama.
“Today is particularly significant at the international level because a new president takes over the United States presidency today. Let no one get overexcited, this is the North American empire,” Chavez said.
The left-wing populist [...]

London, Jan 15 (ANI): The Barmy council bosses’ decision to grant paid leave for staff to have boob jobs has been condemned by critics, who claim that the move is a wastage of taxpayers’ money.
As part of a Life Choices policy, workers could take the time off apart from their holidays to have liposuction, Botox [...]