Friday 20 November '09
Firebrand CPM leader Abdur Rezzak Mollah was pulled up by his party on Thursday for launching a “continued attack on the party and the Left Front government in the state”.Thursday 12 November '09
There were unconfirmed reports that West Bengal CM had expressed a desire to step down, and the CPM was discussing bringing the Assembly polls forward.Thursday
12 November '09A day after the Left Front’s Assembly bypoll humiliation, a veteran minister in Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s cabinet echoed Mamata Banerjee’s demand for the Chief Minister’s resignation, followed by early elections.Wednesday
11 November '09Seven decades after her father was killed in one of Stalin’s concentration camps, Hungarian Marta Meszaros took centrestage at the Kolkata Film Festival, a cultural venture of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.Wednesday
11 November '09The CPM expected a tough fight in Belgachia (East) constituency. But it did not expect defeat in a seat which fell vacant after the death of its leader Subhas Chakraborty.Wednesday
11 November '09As the CPM conducts a postmortem of its bypoll debacle, there is one loss they will find hard to explain: Ramola Chakraborty’s defeat to Trinamool candidate Sujit Basu.Friday
6 November '09It’s a battle for legacy between the wife and protégé of late Subhas Chakraborty as Belgachhia East goes to polls on November 7.Thursday
5 November '09For the sake of Ramola Chakraborty, CPM candidate for the Belgachia East Assembly seat, former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee today shrugged off all hesitations and issued an earnest appeal to the voters.Wednesday
4 November '09With the Maoists and Mamata putting the CPM on the backfoot in West Bengal, the coming bypolls to the 10 Assembly seats are an acid...Friday
30 October '09Just weeks ago, the Trinamool Congress and its brigade of “anti-CPM intellectuals” backed the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities...Friday
30 October '09Just weeks ago, the Trinamool Congress and its brigade of “anti-CPM intellectuals” backed the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities....Saturday
24 October '09Forces surrounded Maoists, called off operations after call from Kolkata....Saturday
24 October '09A day after the West Bengal Government struck a deal with the CPI(Maoist) to free its alleged activists from jail for the release of an abducted police officer...Wednesday
7 October '09After skipping three politburo meets, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is set to attend the fifth meeting of the CPM’s highest policy-making body to be held in Delhi Sunday next.Friday
18 September '09West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Thursday said Infosys and Wipro will be given prime land in Rajarhat township....Friday
18 September '09After weeks of retreat amid reports of his illness and resignation, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today looked refreshed...Tuesday
15 September '09Down with US imperialists! But long live the “Emperor of the entertainment world”, Michael Jackson!Saturday
12 September '09With the scrapping of the ambitious IT project in Rajarhat, rumours are ripe in political circles that IT Minister Debesh Das may have to leave his post, like his predecessor Manabendra Mukherjee, who was forced by CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to resign in 2006.Friday
11 September '09Born into a family of landlords, but a Communist by belief, Land and Land Reforms Minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah has been hitting the headlines....Monday
31 August '09As the burning of the Vedic Village Spa and Resort adds fresh fuel to the heated land acquisition debate in West Bengal....Monday
31 August '09As the nexus between Vedic Village authorities, local musclemen and the Left government in Bengal unravels, the debate over who should be allowed to acquire land for industries reopens....Monday
31 August '09As the burning of the Vedic Village Spa and Resort adds fresh fuel to the heated land acquisition debate in West Bengal, guess who may find his hands singed? The state’s Minister for Land and Land Reforms...Thursday
20 August '09For the last 10 days, West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has neither attended office at Writers’ Buildings nor visited the CPM HQ.Thursday
20 August '09For the last 10 days, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has neither attended office at Writers’ Buildings nor visited the CPM headquarters in Alimuddin Street.Wednesday
19 August '09Two months and 2,000 forces later, the operation to clear Lalgarh of Maoists has officially “failed”. The state administration has admitted that they have not been able to flush out armed cadres from the 50 sq km area...
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