Buddhadeb as PM? Karat doesn’t say no

Wednesday 15 April '09

'I am not putting any name now; the issue will be resolved only after the polls,' Prakash Karat.

Ghost of Nandigram haunts CPM leader

Tuesday 14 April '09

CPI(M) candidates now seem to be in a big hurry to get net-savvy having launched their own websites...

Mamata’s ‘fast’ friends turn on her

Thursday 2 April '09

During the peak of Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s agitation in Singur, 36-year-old Barnali Mukherjee stood beside her.

red alert

Wednesday 1 April '09

Ever since the Left Front government came to power in West Bengal in 1977, Raina, in Burdwan district, has been known as a red bastion....

Front burning, fiddling Left blames foreign hand

Thursday 26 March '09

Like the panchayat polls of May 2008, the Lok Sabha election is again witnessing wide fissures among the Left Front constituents.

Siege within: bloody infighting may undo CPM

Wednesday 25 March '09

The organisational network of the CPM seems to be crumbling on the eve of the Lok Sabha polls, apparently under the stress of internal bickering.

Model violation: Left’s Rs 25,000-rain cheque

Tuesday 17 March '09

If issuing a cheque to a potential voter is an alleged violation of the model code of conduct, what about a rain cheque?

CPM finds little work for women, just 2 gets Lok Sabha tickets

Saturday 14 March '09

If the number of women candidates nominated by a party is any indication of the outfit’s desire to empower women, then the Trinamool Congress has beaten the Left Front hands down.

Buddha-Naveen meet paved way for split in BJP-BJD alliance

Wednesday 11 March '09

THE Bengal CPI(M) had an active role to play in getting Orissa Chief Minister and BJD chief Naveen Patnaik to break its alliance with the BJP....

Criminals have infiltrated CPM, says CITU leader

Friday 6 March '09

General secretary of the CITU's West Bengal unit Kali Ghosh admitted that the party was not without its share of 'criminals'.

Criminals have infiltrated CPM, says CITU leader

Friday 6 March '09

Barely a few days after the infighting in the CPM took an ugly turn in Salt Lake, general secretary of the CITU’s West Bengal unit Kal Ghosh admitted to the infiltration of criminals within the party.

A helping hand

Thursday 5 March '09

While the Congress and Trinamool Congress have come together in the past, the significance of the tie-up this time is the added discomfort...

Age takes over CPM, hunts for new blood

Saturday 28 February '09

Despite repeated attempts, a regimented party like the CPM has failed to announce its list of candidates for the coming Lok Sabha polls.

BSF ensured peace in Bengal when BDR ran riot in Dhaka

Friday 27 February '09

At a time the BDR guards in Bangladesh are threatening the fragile democracy, their counterparts in India, the Border Security Force jawans, worked overtime on Thursday to ensure a peaceful by-poll in the Bishnupur...

Local police can’t order around Central forces during polls, says EC

Thursday 19 February '09

The Election Commission of India has asked its West Bengal unit to convey to the state government that in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the Central forces would act on their own without interference from the local police.

Call Anandababu, get voter card and be happy

Thursday 19 February '09

‘Buladi’, the cartoon character of anti-AIDS campaign spread across the city in the hoardings and billboards, has been adopted by the Election Commission to attract voters to obtain their Electoral Photo Identity Card.

Mamata and the Congress: the partnership dance

Monday 16 February '09

Every time there is an election in West Bengal, there are talks of an alliance between the Congress party and the Trinamool Congress.

Mamata Mia! There she goes again

Wednesday 11 February '09

Every time there is an election in Bengal, there are talks of an alliance between the Congress party and Trinamool Congress.

100-day work a pipe dream

Wednesday 11 February '09

Hundreds of daily-wage workers gathered in Kolkata today to recount their problems in getting jobs under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, an ambitious project of the Centre to cut rampant rural unemployment.

With a platform, and more, CITU well on track in Bengal

Saturday 31 January '09

Killing of two CPM members in Kolkata suburbs highlights how station spaces are up for grabs in the state

Siege within: Transport minister scuttles government’s ‘clean-up’ order on autos

Thursday 29 January '09

Even as the state government is busy convincing the Calcutta High Court of its seriousness in cutting down air pollution levels in the city by converting 30,000-odd auto-rickshaws into the LPG mode...

Political blessings allow autos to pollute Kolkata

Wednesday 28 January '09

Govt documents show that months ago some ministers had sabotaged all efforts of the HC and the Govt to bring down the pollution levels.

Twist to Cong-Trinamool tie-up as Pranab takes over Bengal PCC

Monday 26 January '09

Union External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s appointment as the chief of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee...

Bengal CPM keeps options open, n-deal out in polls

Friday 23 January '09

Moving away from the line taken by the CPM central leadership, the party in West Bengal has decided to drop the Indo-US nuclear deal from its list of campaign issues....

Bengal CPM says n-deal won’t be an election issue

Thursday 22 January '09

Moving away from the line taken by the CPM central leadership, the party in West Bengal has decided to drop the Indo-US nuclear deal from its list of campaign issues for the Lok Sabha polls.