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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
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Topic: CPI-M

What lies at the heart of Kerala raids on Asianet News? Journalists’ dual loyalty

At the core of the issue is an interview of a 14-year-old girl that was featured in Kannur-based senior correspondent Naufal Bin Yousaf’s series on narcotics.

Pinarayi Vijayan’s son-in-law, CM ‘in waiting’ — who is PA Mohamed Riyas, Kerala’s PWD minister

Riyas shot to prominence after he married Pinarayi Vijayan’s daughter Veena in 2020. A recent survey by a Malayalam newspaper had placed Riyas as the likeliest future CM of Kerala.

Alliance of ‘secular’ parties to take on BJP in Tripura? Congress ‘in talks with Left, TIPRA’

Congress, Left, and Motha exploring an anti-BJP ‘secular’ alliance, says Congress leader Sudip Barman. But for ex-CM Manik Sarkar, it's ‘premature’ to make any such public assertion.

After wiping out TMC in one cooperative poll, Bengal BJP-CPI(M) ‘alliance’ flops in another

Trinamool won 69 of 76 seats in Mahishadal Keshabpur Jalpai Radhakrishna Cooperative Farmers Association Sunday. Victory follows party's loss in Nandakumar Cooperative poll.

‘Ram, Baam & Shyam’ — why Mamata’s going hammer and tongs at BJP-CPI(M)-Congress ‘alliance’

After loss in farm co-op poll, the West Bengal CM has claimed that opposition parties gang up against TMC only during elections. Panchayat polls in the state will be held in 2023.

‘Eliminates black money from political funding’: Modi govt defends electoral bond scheme in SC

Apex court was hearing a bunch of public interest litigations challenging the scheme. Contention that this scheme affects democracy may not hold water, says solicitor general Mehta.

Kerala RSS workers acquitted of murder by HC, Sangh & CPI(M) play blamegame over ‘false’ cases

Sangh demands review of all 'political' cases after Kerala HC acquits 13 RSS workers of murder of CPI(M) activist, pulls up cops. CPI(M) retorts that it's BJP govts that 'fabricate cases'.

Left parties allege irregularities in final stages of vote counting in Bihar

The three Left parties — CPI, CPI (Marxist) and CPI (Marxist-Leninist) — said they will take up the issue with the EC along with other partners of the Bihar Mahagathbandhan.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Bengal’s forgotten former CM, is old, sick and unappreciated

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has gone from being the ‘liberator’ who planned Bengal’s industrial renaissance to a frail & forgotten former CM.

9 BJP-RSS workers sentenced to life for killing CPI(M) worker inside Kannur jail

CPI(M) worker K P Raveendran had succumbed to his injuries following an attack between two group of prisoners inside the jail on April 6, 2004.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.