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Sunday, March 15, 2026
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Topic: CPI(M)

Left veteran Sudhakaran finally cuts the cord, plans Independent run in Kerala polls

Sudhakaran’s rift with the party began after the 2021 polls in which he did not participate. During the next year’s organisational reshuffle, he was dropped from state committee.

Kerala minister Ganesh Kumar’s wife who ‘caught him cheating’ says issue ‘resolved’ after apology

Controversy erupted after Bindu Menon Monday accused the minister of infidelity and said she had caught him ‘red-handed’ at their family home in Trivandrum.

After actor Mammootty’s township visit sparks CPI(M) criticism, Kerala CM issues public apology

Accounts linked to CPI(M) allegedly criticised Mammootty after he was seen asking a party functionary not to follow too closely during a visit to the Wayanad Model Township

Cracks in the red fortress: CPI(M) battles rebellion in Palakkad, Alappuzha and Wayanad ahead of polls

The ruling Left party in Kerala is facing open dissent in several districts, with rebel convention, leadership disputes and resignations complicating its election preparations.

Andhra bureaucracy in silent mode, and the TMC ‘mole’ in CPI(M)

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CPI(M) welcomes Padma Vibhushan for Achuthanandan, says earlier rejections were ‘personal decisions’

However, Kerala CM Pinarayi, who lauded award to actor Mammootty at the State Film Awards ceremony, was silent on Padma Vibhushan awarded posthumously to veteran communist leader.

Sabarimala gold plating row heats as LDF-UDF trade blows. On target: Sonia Gandhi, ex-CPI(M) minister

Latest tussle is after reports that Special Investigation Team will be questioning Congress MP Adoor Prakash on alleged links with prime accused in gold plating row.

Politics to entrepreneurship, how Kerala’s Kudumbashree is giving women a platform, a life of autonomy

Launched in 1998, the women’s empowerment programme has become a political nursery: 7,210 of 23,612 councillors elected in the 2025 local body polls are Kudumbashree volunteers.

Dalit lynched in Kerala: CPI(M) blames RSS ‘politics of hatred’, Congress slams ‘law & order failure’

The CPI(M)-led Kerala govt announces a 10-member SIT-led probe amid heightened tensions with the BJP-RSS; Palakkad Superintendent of Police will lead the team.

Average Malayali lives 10 yrs more than those in BJP-ruled UP, Bihar—CPI(M)’s Brittas on air pollution

In a candid conversation with ThePrint, CPI (M)’s Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas also talked about the Left’s electoral setbacks in Kerala local body polls.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.