Restive Xinjiang needs `ethnic healing`: Chinese media

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 09:13

China`s state-run media Tuesday called for "ethnic healing" in the restive Xinjiang region, a day after two policemen and 14 members of the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority were killed in a clash.

Rights abuses persist in China despite plan to scrap camps: Amnesty

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 09:11

China`s much-vaunted abolition of its widely loathed "re-education through labour" camps risks being no more than a cosmetic change because of other rights abuses, Amnesty International said Tuesday.

Nepal`s CPN-Maoist party demands roundtable conference

Last Updated: Monday, December 16, 2013, 11:56

The Communist Party of Nepal, Maoist (CPN-Maoist), which boycotted the Nov 19 national elections, has reiterated its demand for holding a roundtable conference to end the political deadlock in the country, the party said Monday.

Yechury for a non-Congress, non-BJP alternative

Last Updated: Saturday, December 14, 2013, 02:36

CPI-M politburo member Sitaram Yechury said his party was in search of a non-Congress, non-BJP Political alternative which would implement alternative policies.

Poland`s last communist leader hospitalized

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 23:18

A doctor says that Poland`s last communist leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, has been hospitalized due to heart problems.

Nelson Mandela symbol of people struggling for freedom, democracy: CPM

Last Updated: Friday, December 6, 2013, 21:17

Left parties on Friday paid glowing tributes to Nelson Mandela, describing him as "a lofty symbol" of people struggling for freedom, democracy and human dignity, and said real homage could be paid only by struggling for a world free from injustice, discrimination and inequality.

`Kerala court to decide on prisoners using Facebook`

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 3, 2013, 13:26

Kerala`s Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan said that the trial court will rule on the prisoners of Kozhikode jail who were accessing the social media from inside the prison.

Two policemen die after gunfight with Maoists

Last Updated: Saturday, November 30, 2013, 10:33

Two policemen have been killed in a gunbattle with Maoists in Odisha`s Nuapada district, an official said.

Don`t make Aadhaar card compulsory: CPI(M)

Last Updated: Friday, November 29, 2013, 14:11

The CPI(M) has asked the Centre to withdraw its decision to make Aadhaar cards compulsory for providing various benefits like cooking gas subsidy to people.

Vietnam Communist Party reasserts role in amended charter

Last Updated: Thursday, November 28, 2013, 17:01

Vietnamese lawmakers today approved a new version of the country`s constitution that upholds the ruling Communist Party`s dominant political and economic role.

Don`t hit bottle, practice martial arts: CPI-M tells cadre

Last Updated: Thursday, November 28, 2013, 14:16

Do not hit the bottle, stay away from religious functions and form clubs that engage in martial arts for self-defence, the Communist Party of India-Marxist has told party cadre in Kerala.