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Why is Mamata so inflexible towards Tata project?

Wednesday 3 September '08

One answer lies in her playing opposition politics, another has to do with the 21 groups which have jumped onto her stage.
The importance of being Jyoti Basu

Tuesday 15 July '08

Looking for solutions to the current political imbroglio, politicians from New Delhi knocked the door of veteran Communist leader, Jyoti Basu, this week.
After panchayat poll drubbing, CPM, partners lose Bengal civic bodies

Thursday 3 July '08

Still to recover from the battering in the West Bengal panchayat polls, the ruling CPM and its Left partners were dealt another body blow today...
Left Govt turns 31 in Bengal, but nothing much to brag about

Saturday 21 June '08

On Saturday, the Left Front Government turns 31. After over three decades of undisputed power in West Bengal...
Who are the Amra Bangalis?

Friday 13 June '08

As trains pull into West Bengal, passengers find the station names in Hindi and English smeared with black tar, leaving only the Bengali version visible.
Day after fuel hike, Left-ruled states shut down

Friday 6 June '08

The consecutive bandhs called on Thursday and Friday by the ruling and opposition parties against the fuel price hike blurred the distinction...
CPM meet to analyse Bengal poll debacle

Saturday 24 May '08

The CPI(M) on Friday called a two-day state committee meeting from Sunday to look into the reasons for its defeat in the local body elections.
Not just Singur and Nandigram, CPM gets battered across rural West Bengal

Friday 23 May '08

The CPM is facing an unprecedented dent in what it has long taken for granted, its support in the rural areas in West Bengal.
‘How can we let them capture our base?’

Saturday 17 May '08

Kshiti Goswami, the RSP minister for Public Works Department, is one of the most dissenting voices in Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s cabinet
Mystery death of Bengal officer who exposed NREG fraud

Sunday 11 May '08

The mysterious “suicide” of a 30-year-old Block Development Officer in West Bengal who blew the whistle on corruption by the CPM-led panchayat...
How to look away when prices rise

Saturday 3 May '08

While the CPI(M) is attacking Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the UPA government over inflation and the price rise...
In Bengal village, CPM office is spruced up with NREG funds

Saturday 26 April '08

Land development, irrigation projects, afforestation and roads, or any labour involving earthwork for creating assets is eligible for mobilisation...
In the Panchayat Minister’s constituency, funds in name of dead build CPM ‘clubhouse’

Sunday 13 April '08

Dead people don’t need houses. But CPM men looking for a ‘clubhouse’ do.
Audit finds rules bent, money diverted in Bengal’s housing plan for rural poor

Sunday 13 April '08

Barely a month before West Bengal holds panchayat elections, the CPM-led Left Front Government faces a severe indictment from the state’s Accountant General...
After a week of Marx, new politburo member Nirupam woos capital

Monday 7 April '08

West Bengal Commerce & Industries Minister Nirupam Sen, who has just been inducted into the CPM politburo at the party congress in Coimbatore...
Absent Basu makes presence felt at meet

Thursday 3 April '08

“It is a matter of great pain to me that I could not take part in the party Congress,” Jyoti Basu told his associates as they packed their bags...
UNPA opportunistic alliance, can’t last: Prakash Karat

Wednesday 2 April '08

The United National Progressive Alliance, a front opposed to the Congress as well as the BJP, is an opportunist group...
CPM minister goes against party line: Bengal needs n-power, look at France

Thursday 20 March '08

In remarks that are bound to leave red faces in the CPM, West Bengal Power Minister and senior CPM leader Mrinal Banerjee today told the Assembly...
Delimitation tests limits of LF unity

Thursday 21 February '08

As if the CPI(M) didn't have enough trouble with its allies, it is staring at another red rag.
Bengal PCC hopes Dasmunsi will usher change

Thursday 14 February '08

Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi’s appointment as President of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee...
RTI answer: IG’s letter to Buddha lost

Wednesday 13 February '08

When Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee took charge for his second term, he told a rally of Government employees...
After Singur and Nandigram, Buddha has a new headache called Dinhata

Wednesday 6 February '08

Just when the Nandigram fires have begun to smoulder down, the CPM-led government in West Bengal is caught in another political headache...
Jailing innocent: Bengal blames UP police for ‘wrong’ info

Saturday 19 January '08

The Criminal Investigation Department of West Bengal Police on Friday blamed the Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh police for giving it “wrong...
Basu, Surjeet to skip CPM Congress in Coimbatore

Friday 18 January '08

For the first time in 44 years, CPI-M veterans Jyoti Basu and Harkishan Singh...
Don’t interfere, let industry grow on own momentum, Buddhadeb tells party

Thursday 17 January '08

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has urged his party comrades to refrain from interfering in the state’s industrialisation process.
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