Monday 23 November '09
With Bengal turning a hotbed of political violence and the state Assembly elections due in 2011...Saturday 21 November '09
Centre released first installment of fund, most Trinamool MPs yet to submit proposals...Wednesday
11 November '09Even as the CPM drew a blank the bypolls held on 10 seats, its sworn rival, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress...Thursday
5 November '09“I am nobody. My brother and my father are everything here. And then there is the blessings of our leader Mamata Banerjee,” says 33-year-old Dibyendu Adhikary, Trinamool Congress candidate from Contai (South) Assembly constituency and the latest member of Adhikary family to join politics.Thursday
5 November '09Even as Railway Minister and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee was gearing up to address a mammoth rally at Garbari ground in Arambagh, CPM and Trinamool Congress supporters clashed intermittently in the surrounding areas.Thursday
5 November '09West Bengal will have early polls this time, claimed Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday....Monday
2 November '09Even a week after the Maoists released him, the officer-in-charge of Sankrail police station, Atindranath Dutta, is yet to decide on joining duty.Friday
30 October '09Just weeks ago, the Trinamool Congress and its brigade of “anti-CPM intellectuals” backed the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities...Friday
30 October '09Just weeks ago, the Trinamool Congress and its brigade of “anti-CPM intellectuals” backed the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities....Thursday
29 October '09With the ticket counter locked and no commuters milling around, Banstala railway station wore a deserted look a day after the Rajdhani Express was held hostage there for hours by Maoist-backed agitators.Thursday
29 October '09With the ticket counter locked and no commuters milling around, Banstala railway station wore a deserted look a day after the Rajdhani Express....Wednesday
28 October '09Officer-in-charge of Sankrail police station, Atindranath Dutta, who was kidnapped by Maoists on October 20 and released two days later...Wednesday
28 October '09Days after the state buckled to let 21 Maoist suspects walk in exchange for an abducted police officer, Maoists, leading armed tribals from Lalgarh and West Midnapore...Tuesday
27 October '09Atindranath Dutta was on a string of TV shows, changing clothes six times during a day for TV appearances, narrating details of his abduction despite being told not to do so.Tuesday
27 October '09With the tides turning in West Bengal, senior police officers have begun switching sides, with many of them knocking at Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee’s doors for plum postings in Delhi.Tuesday
27 October '09If the West Bengal government let 21 Naxal suspects walk out of prison to secure the release of Atindranath Dutta...Monday
26 October '09As the dust settles on the October 20 Maoist attack on Sankrail police station and the subsequent abduction drama, preliminary investigation into the incident points out that it was a well-planned operation carried out by three separate teams of the ultras following months of recce and practice.Sunday
25 October '09With the dilapidated condition of the Sankrail police station being exposed following the Maoist attack, the state government today finally kicked off the much-needed facelift of the security conditions of the police station.Saturday
24 October '09The West Bengal govt admitted that it had given in to the Maoists’ demands — and helped free 22 suspects — to secure release of Atindranath Dutta.Saturday
24 October '09Forces surrounded Maoists, called off operations after call from Kolkata....Saturday
24 October '09While the state government is still fighting shy of clearly admitting to any swap deal that led to the release of police officer Atindranath Dutta from Maoists’ captivity...Saturday
24 October '09A day after the West Bengal Government struck a deal with the CPI(Maoist) to free its alleged activists from jail for the release of an abducted police officer...Saturday
24 October '09The West Bengal government today admitted that it had given in to the Maoists’ demands — and helped free 22 suspects — to secure yesterday’s release of Atindranath Dutta, the abducted Officer in Charge of the Sankrail police station.Thursday
22 October '09At least 24 policemen, including constables, inspectors and homeguards, were present at the Sankrail police station when the Maoists struck at 1.30 pm yesterday....Thursday
22 October '09While Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee brainstorms in Kolkata on ways to tackle the crisis arisen out of the abduction of a police officer in Tuesday’s raid by Maoists in Sankrail...
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