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Five-judge SC Bench to hear pleas challenging abrogation of Article 370

Also allows CPI(M)'s Yechury to visit J&K to meet party colleague Md Yousuf Tarigami

Will make detailed statement on situation after I return from J&K: Yechury

The bench said if the Left leader indulged in any political activity, the authorities were free to report it to the apex court

Opposition leaders to visit J&K Saturday, Rahul Gandhi likely to join

According to sources, among some of the parties that will be part of the opposition all-party delegation are Congress, CPI-M, CPI, RJD, NCP, TMC and DMK and Rahul Gandhi is likely to accompany them

If all is well, why weren't we allowed in J-K: Left leaders question govt

Yechury and Raja had both written to governor Satya Pal Malik on Thursday informing him of their visit and requesting him to facilitate their entry

Yechury, Raja detained at Srinagar airport; 'anti-democratic', cries CPI(M)

The Left leaders had gone to Srinagar to meet CPI(M) MLA Md Tarigami and other party colleagues

BJP's 'brazen horse-trading' led to fall of Karnataka govt: Sitaram Yechury

The government in Karnataka collapsed Tuesday night after the confidence motion moved by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy was defeated in the assembly, ending his 14-month-long turbulent tenure

Rahul Gandhi, Sitaram Yechury plead not guilty in defamation case

Rahul Gandhi, Sitaram Yechury plead not guilty in defamation case

Communal forces cannot and should not be in govt: Sitaram Yechury

CPI (M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury talks to Aditi Phadnis on common platforms, joint fronts and the continuing influence of Left ideas but its declining electoral strength. Edited excerpts:

CPI(M)-Cong tie-up talks for Lok Sabha polls to be at state-level: Yechury

Yechury's remarks came at a time a section of the state CPI(M) leadership was keen on an electoral understanding with the Congress to defeat the TMC and BJP in West Bengal

Centre diverting clean energy funds to compensate states for GST: Yechury

The National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF) was created for funding research and innovative projects in clean energy technologies

Newsmaker: Sitaram Yechury is rekindling CPI(M) from degeneration

Yechury could play the role Harkishan Singh Surjeet had played in 1996 and 2004 to unify the opposition

Sitaram Yechury re-elected CPI (M) chief after Manik Sarkar bows out

Yechury was unanimously re-elected the party general secretary by the new central committee of the party, its highest decision-making body

Sitaram Yechury unanimously re-elected as CPI(M) general secretary

Yechury's election to the post for the second time was approved by the Left party's newly-elected 95-member central committee

Yechury wins, for now; CPI(M) keeps door open for seat adjustment with Cong

The compromise averted a vote on the draft political line, and Prakash Karat indicated this was in the interest of party unity

It's a big defeat, we're analysing it : Sitaram Yechury

One, during the intervening period and particularly about two years ago, we came to the conclusion that the Congress which used to be the traditional anti-Left pole in Tripura has been replaced by BJP

All for Sitaram Yechury: Ghulam Nabi Azad's suggestion was tongue-in-cheek

Azad, good suggested to some in CPI (M) if they would be willing to support a common candidate

Tripura polls 2018: Sitaram Yechury stays optimistic

Yechury said he was certain a Left Front government would be formed in Tripura after the polls due in early 2018

Yechury, Sudhakar Reddy to attend CPC meet in Beijing

Leaders from 200 political parties and organisations from 120 countries are expected to attend the meet

Truce in CPI(M) after Yechury camp wins current round

New Delhi, 16 OctoberAfter weeks of debate between party chief Sitaram Yechury and his predecessor Prakash Karat over their party's political tactics for the next three years, there were on Monday indications of a rapproachment within the Communist Party of India (Marxist).The truce came in the wake of a show of strength from Yechury that the rival camp had not anticipated.Of the 63 who attended the central committee meeting here in New Delhi, 32 supported Karat. The former party chief wants CPI (M) to persist with its 2015 political resolution, which had identified the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as the party's principal enemy, but has also said that there could be no truck with the Congress since that party's neo-liberal policies had brought the BJP to power.However, as many as 31 central committee members spoke in favour of Yechury's argument that the principal enemy was the BJP, and the CPI (M) at this juncture needed to be part of a broad national alternative of left, secular ...

Old memories

CPI (M) chief Sitaram Yechury spoke of the time when the CPI split into two parties in 1964