Achuthanandan blames state leadership for LDF`s defeat

Last Updated: Thursday, October 17, 2013, 17:54

Virtually indicting CPI(M) state set-up controlled by Pinarayi Vijayan, VS Achuthanandan said lapses like irrational" selection of candidates led to defeat of LDF in 2011 assembly polls in Kerala.

Achuthanandan moves SC for probe in ice cream parlour sex case

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 13:21

Kerala`s Leader of Opposition VS Achuthanandan on Wednesday filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking a CBI probe into the Kozhikode ice cream parlour sex scandal.

Achuthanandan demands to handover gold smuggling case to NIA

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 18:46

Alleging that those arrested in connection with the recent gold smuggling case in Kerala had links with terrorists, Opposition leader and CPI(M) veteran VS Achuthanandan on Tuesday demanded that the case be handed over to NIA.

Sonia Gandhi launches `zero landless` scheme in Kerala

Last Updated: Monday, September 30, 2013, 10:43

Congress president Sonia Gandhi Monday launched a "zero landless" scheme here to ensure that one lakh families in Kerala get to own land by 2015.

No public money for Sonia`s visit, please: Achuthanandan

Last Updated: Saturday, September 28, 2013, 20:14

As UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi is scheduled to arrive here tomorrow on a two-day visit packed with political and official engagements, CPI(M) veteran and state opposition leader VS Achuthanandan wants the government to ensure that expenses of her visit are fully met by the Congress party.

Probe against Achuthanandan: Vigilance seeks six months in HC

Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 21:05

Vigilance on Thursday sought six months time from the Kerala High Court to complete inquiry into allegations of corruption against Achuthanandan.

CPI-M lambasts IUML over marriage for minor girls

Last Updated: Monday, September 23, 2013, 18:11

The Communist Party of India-Marxist flayed the move by Muslim organisations in the state to appeal to the Supreme Court to allow minor Muslim girls to marry.

`No CBI probe into ice cream parlour sex case`

Last Updated: Friday, August 30, 2013, 15:56

The Kerala High Court on Friday dismissed the petition of Leader of Opposition VS Achuthanandan seeking a CBI probe in the Kozhikode ice-cream parlour sex case.

Arab wedding: Achuthanandan blames UDF govt circular on marriage age

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 22:38

CPI(M) blamed a circular issued by then Cong-led UDF govt as responsible for plight of a 17-year-old girl divorced by a UAE national in Kozhikode.

Achuthanandan gets Ali Hassan award

Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2013, 18:04

CPI(M) veteran and opposition leader V S Achuthanandan has been selected for the first Ali Hassan Memorial Samskarika Samithi award, instituted in memory of late MLA and Communist party leader A Ali Hassan.

Vigilance probe against CPI-M leaders

Last Updated: Thursday, July 11, 2013, 20:07

Vigilance Court ordered probe against former Kerala CM VS Achuthanandan, CPI-M`s Pinarayi Vijayan for causing loss to exchequer by spending huge sums of money to argue cases in High Court.

Kerala court orders probe against Achuthanandan, Vijayan

Last Updated: Thursday, July 11, 2013, 15:43

Vigilance court ordered a probe against top CPI-M leaders V.S. Achuthanandan, Pinarayi Vijayan and two others for hiring lawyers from outside the state to argue cases in the Kerala High Court.