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Legs hacked by Left supporters, how RS entrant Sadanandan’s case played out in the courts

Thiruvananthapuram: At a rally in the run-up to the 2016 Assembly polls, Prime Minister Modi held up the hand of the BJP candidate from...

Seat talks in Jharkhand, Maharashtra & Bengal strain Left-Congress ties. ‘1 party isn’t INDIA bloc’

General secretaries of CPI & CPI(ML) say INDIA bloc's full potential can't be realised unless Congress changes approach. AICC secretary promises that 'all issues will be settled'.

Allies in INDIA bloc, foes in Kerala, how Left & Congress are navigating a tightrope walk

While BJP is attempting to take advantage of this dichotomy while campaigning, CPM and Congress leaders say voters of southern state 'are aware' it is LDF versus UDF here.

ED questions Kerala ex-MP PK Biju in Karuvannur bank ‘scam’ ahead of polls. CPM says ‘not scared’

Former Alathur MP and CPM’s Kerala state secretariat member P.K. Biju appeared before ED Thursday. Agency has also summoned Thrissur Corporation Councillor P.K. Shajan.

With every outburst, Mamata Banerjee is encouraging a CPM-Congress deal minus TMC

After Rahul Gandhi's arrival in West Bengal, for the last few days, Mamata Banerjee's fury has been directed more at his MP from Bengal, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. And the CPI-M. 

BJP ‘smelling defeat’ in Tripura, trying to bluff the tribals: CPI(M) leader Jitendra Chaudhury

Tribal leader Chaudhury is likely to be the CM pick if the Left-Congress alliance comes to power in Tripura, which goes to polls on 16 February.

A well-kept secret about Pinarayi Vijayan’s CPM is out in the open—factionalism

Vijayan has always had a soft corner for E.P. Jayarajan and it was equally reciprocated by the latter.

Decimated in elections, Bengal’s stunned Communists see no light at the end of the tunnel

Not only has the CPI(M)-led Left Front drawn a blank, for the first time since the 1952 elections, its vote-share has dropped to a paltry 5%. 

Kerala’s Deng Xiaoping, Pinarayi Vijayan is showing Bengal’s Left how it’s done

With the LDF's historic win in Kerala, CM Pinarayi Vijayan has further increased his clout before the CPM's central leadership, especially with the Left drawing a blank in Bengal.

Trinamool looks set to break Congress-CPM stranglehold on Murshidabad & Malda 

According to early trends, the TMC is leading in 14 of 17 seats in Murshidabad and 6 of 12 seats in Malda. Congress-CPM alliance yet to open account in Malda.

On Camera

Norway’s Modi cartoon was not satire. Just colonial laziness

Political satire is indispensable to democracy, racial caricature isn’t. If Europe’s liberal press still cannot tell difference, then decolonisation never happened in their imagination.

Recovery of unclaimed shares, dividends now takes days, not yrs. EAC-PM credits investor watchdog revamp

PM-EAC paper says overhaul of Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority system sharply improved processing speed and reduced paperwork for investors.

Dragon’s armour: How Xi reshaped China’s military with theatre commands a decade before India’s push

While India yet to set in motion theaterisation of armed forces, China's military reforms combined China’s Army, Navy, Air Force and Rocket Force aimed at regional dominance & tight political control.

Pakistan is tactically brilliant, strategically disastrous. It’s primed for repeated blunders

Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.