Monday 31 August '09
As 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 '09
For 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...Wednesday
5 August '09Before taking on the transport owners in the city, Subhas Chakraborty, the lone dissenter in the CPM...Friday
31 July '09For the first time since the March 14, 2007 firing in Nandigram, the police opened fire at a group of Trinamool workers, killing one and injuring 14 others in a village in South 24-Parganas.Sunday
26 July '09A day after Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee made her opposition clear to the proposed amendment to the Land Acquisition Act, the Left Front government in West Bengal said it backed governmental role in “acquisition of large tracts of land”.Saturday
25 July '09The Left Front government is yet to take concrete steps to tackle the looming agrarian crisis triggered by scanty rainfall this year.Saturday
18 July '09Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee avoided making a public appearance on Friday, the day the Congress ruled the Opposition politics in Bengal.Friday
3 July '09The Trinamool Congress has fared much better than its ally Congress in the civic polls held on June 28, the results of which were announced on Wednesday.Friday
26 June '09Under fire from the Left Front partners for giving his nod for the Centre’s ban on the CPI (Maoist), Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Thursday stood his ground in a crucial LF meeting...Friday
26 June '09Taking a firm stand on the issue, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee seemed to have convinced...Saturday
13 June '09In the face of sharp criticism from his West Bengal comrades, CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat was said to have admitted....Saturday
13 June '09In the face of sharp criticism from his West Bengal comrades, CPM general secretary Prakash Karat was said to have admitted that the move to forge a Third Front resulted in failure for the party and was “unaccepted” by voters.Friday
12 June '09In the debris of the ransacked house of a local CPI(M) leader, who’s also the panchayat pradhan of Kalagachia, Durga Das, a daily wager....Thursday
11 June '09Barely 48 hours ago, the Kalagachia CPI(M) office in Khejuri, near Nandigram, stood like a symbol of power and authority — buzzing with people through the day....Monday
25 May '09Overlooking the Opposition’s role in its debacle, the Bengal unit of the CPM has instead concluded that voters’ rejection of the idea of Third Front has led to its worst performance in the recent Lok Sabha polls.Monday
25 May '09At a day-long meeting where the party central observers were conspicuous by their absence, the CPI(M)’s West Bengal state committee....Monday
18 May '09Dissenting voices within the CPM are rarely heard above the hum of its “disciplined” party machine but after its worst electoral debacle in three decades...Saturday
9 May '09Hours after Sabina Begum (name changed to protect her identity), a Nandigram rape victim, was intimidated and not allowed to vote...Friday
8 May '09The nervousness of the CPM in Nandigram — after its rout in the Gram Panchayat polls and the Assembly by-poll...Wednesday
6 May '09If the “Nandigram model” has been a political success story for Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress , it’s not merely the robust coalition....Sunday
3 May '09A Trinamool Congress leader was shot dead and his mother ‘raped’ early Saturday morning in Sher Khanchawk village near Nandigram...Sunday
3 May '09A Trinamool Congress leader was shot dead and his mother ‘raped’ early Saturday morning in Sher Khanchawk village near Nandigram, allegedly by CPI(M) men....Wednesday
15 April '09Two days after Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said the CPM would join the new Central government “if the situation so demanded”, his party general secretary did not rule out the possibility of the Bengal CM becoming the Prime Minister.
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