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'So late in night': When Fidel Castro called Sitaram Yechury at midnight

IndiaTimes Thursday, 12 September 2024
Sitaram Yechury shared a story about receiving a late-night call from Fidel Castro during a 1994 visit to Cuba. Castro's sudden question about India's steel production led Yechury to always carry a statistics handbook on future visits. Yechury, who recently passed away at 74 after prolonged illness, revealed this in an interview with Samdish Bhatia.
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Sitaram Yechury, the 72-year-old General Secretary of CPM, passed away at AIIMS Delhi due to lung complications. Born in 1952, Yechury rose from student activism to lead the CPM, becoming its General Secretary in 2015. A native of Andhra Pradesh, he was educated at St. Stephen's College and JNU....

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