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The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AWMU) says it fears Maryborough train builders will run out of work if a new Queensland Rail (QR) tender is not awarded soon.
About 300 manufacturing workers rallied yesterday in Maryborough, in the state’s south-east, calling on the Queensland Government to secure their jobs by signing a new contract to supply [...]

The Tasmanian Labor Party claims the Greens have a secret plan to legalise heroin.
Labor’s State Secretary John Dowling has released advertising material that states the Greens support legalising heroin, as well as giving violent criminals the right to vote.
The material quotes Greens MP Cassy O’Connor, who told Parliament heroin was not the scourge on society [...]

The Whitsunday regional Mayor says a Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) investigation will not hinder his chances of contesting this year’s federal election.
Councillor Mike Brunker wants to run for the Labor Party in the seat of Dawson, in the state’s north.
“There’s been no criminal charges, I’m not expecting any and I know if I am [...]

The Liberal Party has again accused Labor of using dirty campaign tactics.
Last year, the Liberals Party raised concerns about push polling, where phone pollsters attempt to skew voters’ views rather than measure them.
Labor rejected the claim and accused the Liberals of using push polling themselves.
Liberal Party State Director, Jonathan Hawkes, says this week he has [...]

Mining operator Woodside has been accused of exposing workers to dangerous levels of asbestos on its Pluto liquefied natural gas project in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) says independent testing has confirmed the presence of brown and white asbestos in grinding gaskets imported from New Zealand.
The union says at least eight [...]

BERLIN, March 1 (Reuters) – A meeting on the Airbus A400M military transport plane will be held at the end of this week, a negotiation source said on Monday.
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The meeting will be held at state secretary level, the source said. (Reporting by Sabine Siebold, writing by Brian Rohan; Editing by [...]

New Delhi, Sep.2 (ANI): Union Home Minster P. Chidambaram, after meeting Congress President Sonia Gandhi, has called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to apprise him of the latest developments and efforts of the security forces to trace out Andhra Pradesh Y.S.Rajshekhara Reddy, missing since 9.35 morning.

Ahead [...]

New Delhi, July 15(ANI): Activists of Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) held a demonstration in the national capital, on Wednesday over irregularities in the distribution of Below Poverty Line (BPL) social security cards.

Scores of SUCI activists marched to Delhi [...]

New Delhi, July 12 (ANI): Kerala’s octogenarian Chief Minister and veteran Communist leader, V S Achuthanandan, was axed on Sunday from the Communist Party of India – Marxist (CPI-M) politburo following charges of party indiscipline.

Achuthanandan was accused of leaking information related to the party to the media. The CPI-M Central Committee said that it [...]

New Delhi, July 12 (ANI): Kerala’s octogenarian Chief Minister and veteran Communist leader, V S Achuthanandan, was on Sunday axed from the Communist Party of India – Marxist (CPI-M) politburo and central committee on grounds of party indiscipline.

Achuthanandan was accused of leaking information related to the party to the media. The CPI-M Central Committee said [...]

New Delhi, July 3 (ANI): Activists of Communist party of India and Socialist Unity Centre of India staged demonstrations against the increase in prices of petrol and diesel here on Friday.

Shouting slogans against the ruling Congress party, protesters demanded the government to roll back the hike.

“The prices of [...]

New Delhi, June 28 (ANI): The Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) will meet here next week to deliberate on the “disunity” within the party’s Kerala unit.

The extraordinary two-day meeting will be held on July 4 and 5 to discuss the infighting between Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan and the party [...]

Kochi, June 23 (ANI): The CBI court on Tuesday issued summons to Kerala CPI (M) State Secretary and former minister Pinarayi Vijayan and eight others in the SNC Lavalin corruption case.

On June 11, the CBI had filed a chargesheet against Vijayan in connection to the [...]

Trivandrum, May 8 (ANI): Pressure seems to be building on Kerala Chief Minister VS Achatunandan to quit after he defied CPI (M) stand to give a clean chit to party’s state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan in the Lavalin scam.

Sources claim that in a meeting held in the CPI (M) state secretariat in Trivandrum, members asked [...]

Thiruvananthapuram, May 7 (ANI): The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) called for a statewide shutdown in Kerala today to protest against the State Government’s decision to deny the prosecution of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan in the multi-billion SNC [...]

Kochi, May 6 (ANI): CPI-M state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan has been given a cheat in connection with the SNC Lavalin graft case.

Kerala Advocate General C P Sudhakara Prasad said Vijayan need not to be prosecuted in the case relating to renovation and modernisation of three hydel projects in the state in late 1990s.

Vijayan, who [...]

Frankfurt – German labour leaders voiced outrage Friday at reports that Fiat, the Italian company seeking control of Chrysler, may have an alternative plan to acquire General Motors’ Opel and Vauxhall brands in Europe.
Guenter Verheugen, a German who is the European Union’s top industry official, scoffed at the plan, telling a German TV channel, “I [...]

Kolkata, April 20 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Buddahdeb Bahttacharjee had ordered the police firing in Nandigram March 14, 2007 that claimed 14 lives, the state’s ruling Left Front partner Forward Bloc alleged Monday.
Speaking at a meet-the-press programme, Bloc state secretary Ashok Ghosh said Bhattacharjee had made the admission at a Left Front meeting after [...]

Ipoh (Malaysia), April 19 (IANS) Malaysian Indian Speaker of Perak state assembly V. Sivakumar has suspended the secretary of the house, a week after the federal court gave a ruling on his powers as the presiding officer.
The apex court last week ruled that Sivakumar did not have the authority to suspend the state’s chief minister [...]

The West Bengal police admitted before a court that they had no evidence against the seven people arrested for involvement in the blasts in Salboni in West Midnapore district on November 2, 2008 that ripped off a vehicle in Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s convoy. The CPI (Maoist) state secretary had claimed responsibility for the blasts [...]