If the response of the people during election rallies is any indication, Capt. Amarinder Singh, former Chief Minister and scion of the Patiala royal family, has emerged as the Congress’ main vote catcher. Capt. Amarinder Singh, who heads the party...

GUERNICA: A Socialist leader who has vowed to fight the armed separatist group ETA took the oath of office on Thursday as the Basque region’s first non-nationalist President. Patxi Lopez was sworn in President in this Basque town. The Basque regional...

THE Mumbai carnage has rolled back the five-year old composite dialogue process between India and Pakistan. Conversely, the bus service between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad and the trade route across the Line of Control (LoC) not only remain intact but are...

Dismissing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s allegation that the Left parties were helping the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Lok Sabha election by splitting secular votes, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Monday said they were, in...

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has warned the District Election Officers and the Returning Officers that they would be personally held responsible if there was any report of employment of child labourers for poll-related works. Taking cognisance of...

The Communist Party of India(Marxist) (CPI(M)) will use its rich experience of running a Left Front government in West Bengal to make the Third Front a success if it wins the Lok Sabha elections, says the party’s politburo member Biman Bo se. He...

As a mark of protest against non-implementation of development works, hundreds of voters in six Lok Sabha constituencies kept away from polling booths in Karnataka Thursday. ‘Nil voting was reported in over a dozen polling booths in some...

Suspected communist rebels freed nearly 300 train passengers unharmed after keeping them hostage for almost five hours at a railway station in eastern India on Wednesday, a day before the second phase of national elections that the guerrillas have vowed...

An attempt by Europe to bring its “last dictator” in from the cold by inviting Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarussian president, to a summit of 27 EU government leaders could backfire by aggravating EU divisions, it was feared yesterday.

Mossad and the CIA are one. And C.I.A. stands for “Capitalism’s Invisivble Army” – and their business is murder, drugs, espionage and sabotage of anti-corruption reform around the world. Mossad and the CIA did 9-11 – and they will continue...