Condoleeza Rice, the US Secretary of State, who has been vocal in her opposition to Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline project has close links with Chevron, the giant US oil company. Rice served on the board of directors of Chevron until she resigned to become Bush’s national security advisor in 2001.

During the visit of US President George Bush to India in the first half of 2006, nuclear and agriculture deals were signed. While the highly publicized nuclear deal between India and US is still being debated, a little known and even less debated pact between both countries is being concluded on agriculture.

THE story of subversion of the UNCTAD itself by GATT that later morphed into WTO, enveloping within itself subjects like investments, intellectual property rights and a plethora of non-trade issues, is the story of continuing poverty of nations and backwardness of their development.

THE historic victory of the Left Front in West Bengal for the seventh successive time and that too with a three-fourth majority and the decisive victory of the Left Democratic Front in Kerala with a two-third majority have brought the role of the CPI(M) and the Left into sharp focus.

The People's verdict is loud and clear. The people in all the five states that went to the polls have enthusiastically responded to the call of the Left

THE Report of the US India CEO Forum titled “US-India Strategic Economic Partnership”, which was released during the recent Bush visit, has not attracted much media attention in contrast to the hype over the nuclear deal.

In West Bengal, the Left Front  has romped home for a record seventh successive term with a three-fourth majority.  This is, by all counts, an international record  of the communists winning  democratic elections in a  capitalist society.

MOMENTOUS developments are taking place in Nepal.  The people’s upsurge  which culminated in the process  of restoration of democracy  in the country was truly massive.

The peasants of Kansat have proved that if people unite to struggle for a just cause and struggle undaunting for the cause, they are ultimately crowned with victory.

It is a day of reckoning for Nepal's monarchy. A revolution is taking place there, steadily and resolutely. The pro-democracy movement of Nepalese people has turned into an anti-monarchy upsurge.

US imperialists have lost hope of Gyanendra’s survival --- of their safest bet in the country over the last five years.

More than hundred thousand people marched in the streets of Pokhara in Kaski, Narayangadh in Chitwan and Ghorahi in Dang district on Thursday demanding immediate restoration of Loktantra and end of autocratic monarchy.

The police fired at the protestors defying curfew in Kalanki killing at least three and injuring dozens. The Armed Police Force (APF) personnel fired live and rubber bullets on the mass of about 35,000.

Nepal’s biggest suppliers of military assistance - India, the United States and the United Kingdom - have already suspended their military assistance to Nepal.

A meeting of the top leaders of the seven political parties was held today in the afternoon in Kathmandu. The decisions of the meeting were publicized in the following communiqué...

Around 65 percent of 6.8 million electorate voted Monday in three districts of West Bengal to mark the start of staggered assembly elections the ruling Left Front hopes to win for a record seventh term.

Nepalese people have begun to remove the signs and demolish the symbols that remind one of a monarchy’s existence. The slogan “Burn the Crown” has caught the public imagination from one part of this Himalayan nation to another.

THE elections to West Bengal state assembly, this time, is receiving unprecedented level of attention not only inside the country, but even internationally.

Thousands of people demonstrated in many towns across the country over the past six days. Throughout the weekend, pro-democracy demonstrators met with massive brutality by police forces with batons and clubs, rubber bullets and tear gas.

With several protesters killed, hundreds wounded, and thousands jailed, opposition political parties in Nepal have extended a recently called general strike indefinitely.