The CPI(M) used to describe indiscipline, intra-party feud and open demonstration of disagreement with party leadership as vices of the bourgeois parties. It seems that these vices are now creeping into a regimented party like the CPI(M).

The Election Commission has banned conduct of exit polls and releasing their results from April 4 till May 10 to ensure free and fair assembly polls in five states.
“The Commission hereby notifies the period between 7 am on 4-4-2011, i.e., the first day of poll in Assam, to 5.30 pm on 10-05-2011, i.e., the last day of the poll in West

Angry supporters of Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan took to the streets in several districts across the state on Thursday to protest against the CPI(M)’s decision to deny him a ticket in the forthcoming Assembly polls.

Indicting 25 unaided private schools in the capital for accounting malpractices, including faking losses, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), in its 64-page report, submitted to the Delhi high court on Thursday said that the schools did not follow the accounting standards while preparing their final accounts.

Four more departments of the Delhi University have registered their dissent against the semester system. The departments of Germanic and romance studies, geography, history and sociology have voiced disagreement over the semester system after the English department passed a resolution rejecting the semester system.

Giving an interim relief to shopkeepers and restaurant owners in the city’s elite shopping hub, the Khan market, the Delhi high court on Thursday stayed the New Delhi Municipal Council’s proposed drive from Friday to remove the illegal constructions there.

Delhiites may face serious inconvenience from Sunday as the Jat community demanding reservation has threatened to begin blockade of the city if its demand is not met within the next three days. The agitation by Jats at various places in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh has already hit rail services causing trouble to people wanting to go to their native places from Delhi for Holi.

A woman municipal councillor from the Congress has alleged that she has been getting extortion threats from an unidentified caller. She has lodged a complaint with the west Delhi police.

The proceeding in Delhi Assembly were marred by frequent disruptions on Thursday, with the Congress MLAs openly refusing to obey the directions of Speaker Yoganand Shastri forcing him to remark that he had been “deeply hurt” by the events.

THEATRE ACTOR Imran Zahid is stepping into the shoes of Muntadhar Al Zaidi.