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Kalantar Dainik, Bengali morninger of Communist Party of India in Kolkata, hit newsstands – albeit select ones – on 26 December , the 96th birthday of a first communist party on Indian soil. The CPI – carrying forward the unanimous decision of undivided CPI – continues firmly to claim that the party was set up on this day in 1925 at the Kanpur Communist Conference. On the contrary, CPI(M) asserts that the CPI was born in Tashkent on 17 October 1920 by a group of émigré Indian revolutionaries led by M N Roy, Abani Mukherjee, among others.

The much publicised December 25 meeting of the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi with the agitating farmers was part of the design to project Modi as the modern day statesman and at the same time malign the agitation rather than being an honest exercise to find a solution to the impasse. The importance of the exercise for the image makeover of Modi could be realised from the simple fact that 54 union ministers were deployed across the country to test the peoples’ mood and clear any misgiving on the farm laws.

There is no crystal ball to gaze and forecast what is in store for the rest of the century. But 2020 will be marked in history as a real turning point and one of the worst in memory for all contemporaries. We had approached 2020 with a lot of hopes, although the stock market exuberance had camouflaged the underlying stress in the financial sector, agrarian crisis, rising unemployment and above all a complete drying up of demand in the economy.

The ground-breaking ceremony of the new “People’s Parliament” building took place with considerable fanfare two weeks ago. Under Article 79 of the Constitution, Parliament consists of the President and its two Houses. But neither the President nor the Vice-President, who is also the chairman of the Rajya Sabha, were invited. The protocol would have required the President to perform the ceremonies.

Goa: East Bengal are still on the lookout for their first win of the Hero Indian Super League season as they face Chennaiyin the Tilak Maidan here on Saturday.

New Delhi: Former fast bowler Chetan Sharma was on Thrusday named chairman of the senior men's selection committee of the BCCI.

New Delhi: Boxing Federation of India (BFI) on Thursday announced that it will hold the elections for its office bearers in February 2021.

It is always a tough job to review a book written by friend(s). It is more difficult to critically look at a sports book in India. The reason being that most of the sports books have been and are being penned by sports journalists and mostly the reviewers also belong to that small tribe. Any lavish praise of the book is dismissed as “back scratching of fellow journalist” and criticism is taken as frustrated comments by a scribe who has yet to come to terms with the success of the writer(s). With market being flooded with books on Individual cricketers / coaches it is becoming increasingly arduous to be impartial reviewer.

There is something curious about the “Legion of Merit” award conferred on Prime Minister Narendra Modi by President Donald Trump. The Legion of Merit is primarily a military honour bestowed by an American president. The chief commander category has been in the past given mainly to army chiefs, generals and commander-in-chief of the armed forces of other countries. Only a handful have been given to heads of State, or, government leaders and those too have been close military allies of the United States.

On December 26 in the year 1925, the Communist Party of India (CPI) — was formally founded on Indian soil at Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) braving the brutal attacks and repression unleashed by the British and other colonial rulers.