CPI-M: When revolution walks into the sunset

The politburo of assassins was the title of a poem written by Tariq Ali when the Tiananmen Square massacre took place in the summer of ‘89. The brutal ass

As the political who’s who and thousands of mourners bid adieu to the Revolutionary Marxist Party leader T. P. Chandrasekharan, 50, the police closed in on the gang that brutally assassinated him at O

Ironic as it might sound, some top functionaries and MPs of the CPI(M) are literally spoon-fed by an agency aided by a top American entity - the Ford Foundation!

The Kochi resident editor of CPI-M m

As many as 70 anti-British agitators, mostly Muslims, locked up in a goods train and sent to Central Prison at Podannor near Coimbatore on November 19, 1921, were found dead in the wagon the next day.

The chances of the south-west monsoon breaking out over Kerala a week ahead of its normal date of June 1 receded further with the monsoon winds staying nearly stationary, around 500 km off the southern tip of the state, according to the latest observation of the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD).