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Kalam, PM get Didi off her fast track

Ten minutes after midnight, into the 26th day of her protest against the government’s acquisition of farmland for the Tata small-car project...

Mamata blinks, puts off bandh

Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee today deferred the 48-hour bandh that was scheduled for Thursday and Friday.

Today, farmers to make case for car project

On Monday, Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee, on the eighth day of her hunger strike against what she calls forcible acquisition of farmland f

In Singur, govt works on compensation for benami land as well

CPM pointsman admits 30 applications from farmers whose benami land falls in Tata Motors project area
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In Singur crowd are those who fell through cracks of W Bengal’s ‘prized’ land reforms

If Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is unhappy with the protests against his government’s acquisition of land for the Tata Motors car project...

Mamata shuts down Kolkata as Left locks in land for the Tatas

What is the situation? Tense, the police officer replied. What is their body language? Aggressive, came the reply.

Singur protest spills into Bengal Assembly

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday took the battle over Singur into the legislative assembly

Taking leaf from reform book, Bengal outsources MLA security to pvt unit

Outsourcing has entered the MLA hostel in Kolkata. West Bengal’s legislators will now be guarded by a private security agency when they are at their h

Singur: They queued up for cheques as Medha held her ‘hearing’

Even as Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar and Magsaysay award winner social activist Mahasweata Devi today...

CPM cites Corus deal to garner support for Tatas’ Bengal venture

Hailing Tata Steel’s takeover of Corus as an example of the Tatas’ reputation as a world-class manufacturer, the CPM is asking people of West Bengal t

Bengal: RTI in bureaucratic tangle

Four months after the office was set up physically, there’s no sign of when the state Chief Information Commissioner’s office will begin functioning.

CPM mouthpiece does the talking: Blame US for N Korean n-test

Even three days after communist North Korea conducted a nuclear test and joined the nuclear power club, all was quiet in the Left Front.

Mamata gets Cong on her side for Oct 9 bandh

Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee has secured the formal support of Congress for her proposed 12-hour hartal on Monday against the September 2

Student leader logs in to connect, comrades don’t like his liberal tag

It’s certainly not in the copy book that Marxist apparatchiks follow. But in Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s West Bengal, the state chief of the CPM student

Why Buddha still smiles

Despite the September 16 by-poll results, Congress cannot play along with Mamata’s idea of an anti-CPM grand alliance

Basu says Subhas ‘gone mad’, Biman quiet

The CPI(M) sank deeper into the crisis sparked by senior leader and Transport minister Subhas Chakraborty’s comment about being a Hindu first and a B

CPM adrift over Politburo vacancy

The CPI(M) was adrift on Thursday over the issue of inducting a member in the Politburo to fill the vacancy created by the death of state secretary An

Buddha land deal for Tata gets Politburo’s stamp of approval

The CPI Politburo on Wednesday endorsed the acquisition of 997 acres of farmland by the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee...

Basu shows no sign of stepping down

At 10 am sharp, Jyoti Basu strode into Alimuddin Street and walked up to the first floor, skipping the lift...

CITU ready to leave AAI building

The Centre for Indian Trade Unions has said its airport contract workers’ union is ready to vacate the building in the security zone...

Left cites security to stall Kolkata airport revamp, yet its union grabs building inside

The Left’s biggest argument against not allowing the private sector in the modernisation of airports was its perceived threat to the country’s securi

Tata Motors’ project: LF govt steps on gas

The West Bengal government made it clear today that it would steamroll all opposition to its plan to acquire 1,000-odd acres for Tata Motors’ prestigi

In Bengal, Left gives clean chit to Pepsi, Coke

As the rest of the country debates the report about pesticide content in Coke and Pepsi, the Left Front in West Bengal today cleared both the cola maj

CPM man for airport strike being probed by party for threats to take over school

Dipankar Ghosh, secretary of Kolkata’s Airports Authority Employees Union and the man who’s key to their plans to ground the airport during the August

In Office of Profit din, Somnath, 2 others lose out on Bengal posts

No reappointment for them, Buddha govt keeps development authority posts vacant
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