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Rowing two boats at a time, Biman Bose loses grip

CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose may have to give up the party post so that he can focus on his other job as chairman of the Left Front.

CPM tries to regain lost ground in Nandigram

Having recaptured Nandigram, it was time for the CPI(M) to offer truce. In its biggest rally...

Meanwhile, largest refugee camp at Ground Zero faces closure

Away from the violence and the curfew in Kolkata, at Ground Zero in Nandigram, the CPM is using its teachers’ wing to clear out the largest refugee ca

After show of force, CPM brokers truce in wary Nandigram

With armed CPM cadres regaining most of their lost territory and frightened villagers in relief camps wanting to go home...
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CPM men fire their way into Nandigram, party tells CM no need for CRPF yet

Desperate to regain control, CPM cadres rampaged through Nandigram I block today, entering village after village as they fired blanks in the air.

In Nandigram, Maoist newcomers take over ‘resistance movement’

It’s official now. The Maoists have taken control of Nandigram-I, the East Midnapore block that has witnessed an upsurge...

UPA took 2 yrs for 123, give us some time: CPM

CPM general secretary Prakash Karat said today that the crisis caused in its relations with the Congress-led UPA...

Buddha, Basu: CM-super CM, bad cop-good cop

Opp slams Jyoti Basu for his comments on govt but party says he and Buddhadeb have an ‘understanding’

Nandigram to PDS, CPM red-faced over trouble at grassroots

Even as the CPI(M) is preaching foreign policy to the UPA Government in Delhi...

We forced US statement on deal, will ask Govt for concessions: CPM

A day after CPM patriarch Jyoti Basu declared that there would be no compromise on the nuclear deal issue...

Buddha skirts n-deal, sets tone for Politburo meet

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has once again refused to criticise the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal...

After Buddha, Basu backs n-power

Says he even tried to get a nuclear power plant for West Bengal when he was the Chief Minister.

RTI query on postings has Bengal babus in a fix

Top bureaucrats of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s Government have been sent running for cover by a simple query put up in a Right...

Why LF won’t complain of CBI’s poor track record

The CBI has again come to the aid of the CPI(M), perhaps unwittingly, by failing to solve another high-profile case — the theft of Rabindranath Tagore

Karat plays the same tune, Bengal comrades don’t quite sing along

With the party central committee formally authorising the politburo “to take whatever necessary measures to see that the agreement is not operationali

Nuclear deal derails LF meeting on Nandigram

At a Left Front meeting today, the West Bengal unit of the CPI(M) took up the Indo-US nuclear deal to steer the discussion away from controversial

CITU strike will go soft on Bengal

The CITU’s nationwide strike by the unorganised labour on Thursday will go soft on West Bengal.

Left MP stars in anti-Bush play

For the CPI(M), it’s time to back its histrionics in Parliament with some real theatre. The Left Front Government is sponsoring a play starring MP Tar

Dip in Haldia vote share has Left worried

There are many ways one can read the Haldia municipal poll results that have drawn national attention because of its proximity to Nandigram.

Divide and rule: Mamata sees a chance with CPM allies

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is assiduously at work trying to dent the traditional Left vote bank by wooing smaller partners in the nine-p

CPM upbeat as Tata promises first car by June

With Ratan Tata stating on Monday that the Tata Motor’s small-car project at Singur will roll out the first Rs 1 lakh car by June 2008, the mood at th

CPI(M) lines up lawyers to take on CBI

Embarrassed at the way the Central Bureau of Investigation is ferreting out names of party leaders reportedly involved in the murder of Tapasi Malik

Biman’s US trip to counter Mamata, Naxal campaign

CPI(M) State Secretary Biman Bose has decided to take on the anti-Nandigram campaign on the Internet in person by visiting the US and talking to influ

In Left Bengal, white ants feast on a Red diet

White ants have been avidly devouring records of the first Left Front Government’s first few days in the Assembly, even as the Front worked towards a

On 30th anniversary, CPM head office turns Alimuddin Inc

Things have changed at 31, Alimuddin Street — the ruling CPI(M)’s nerve centre. From just four rooms in which the party set up base 30 years ago in a
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