Friday 4 September '09
A day after being remanded to judicial custody, managing director of Vedic Village R K Modi on Thursday complained of “chest pain” following which he was shifted to the hospital at the Dum Dum Central Jail.Thursday 20 August '09
Its local units left in tatters with cadres deserting the party in hordes after the rout in the Lok Sabha polls, the CPM has begun winding up its offices and relocating others from where it has been hit the hardest — Nandigram.Monday
17 August '09It was late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s call in 1988 that led Subash Ghising, the supreme leader of the Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF)...Wednesday
12 August '09Claiming that the Assembly elections in Bengal will be held before 2011 because of the deteriorating law and order situation in the state, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said the Mangalkot violence will be the last straw in the fall of the Left government.Friday
31 July '09The honeymoon has turned sour. From Kolkata to New Delhi, Lalgarh to Parliament, Assembly polls to local, the distance between the Trinamool and the Congress is widening....Monday
27 July '09Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said the Congress’s trade union, INTUC, will now have a say in shaping the nation’s economic policy.Tuesday
21 July '09The leader of the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities, which is spearheading the tribal agitation in Lalgarh, is knocking on the doors of Left Front...Tuesday
21 July '09Chattradhar Mahato, leader of Peoples Committee Against Police Atrocities, is now knocking at the doors of the Left Front — minus the CPM — to garner support for their agitation.Thursday
16 July '09Even as security forces gear up for a joint operation with Jharkhand Police to flush out Maoists, state government revamps self-help groups, opens hospital, schools, starts bus service, digs tubewells...Tuesday
14 July '09Over 24 hours after his engineer son died in the accident at the Metro construction site in Delhi, Shankar Pratihar, a farmer in Bankura, is still waiting for an official response from the government or Gammon India, the company his son worked for.Tuesday
14 July '09More than a day after his son Anshuman Pratihar was reported dead in Sunday’s accident at the Metro constriction site, his family is still waiting for an official word...Monday
13 July '09Fresh leads in the murder of two CPM men in Lalgarh show that the Maoists in the area are not only able to roam free and extort money from locals but also hold “jana adalats” or people’s court where they deliver their own version of “justice”.Sunday
12 July '09In the thick of the security operations in trouble torn Lalgarh, a small group of 400-odd villagers in about 35 homes...Tuesday
7 July '09The budgetary grant of Rs 1,000 crore by Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to the state government for relief and reconstruction of the Aila-devastated areas of Sunderbans has left the Congress ally Trinamool unhappy.Tuesday
7 July '09Among those complaining after the Budget presentation on Monday was a UPA ally and member of the Cabinet...Friday
3 July '09After the senitisation of many areas in Lalgarh, the state government has finally drawn up a plan to enhance the relief and development work in the Lalgarh area.Thursday
2 July '09Even as six senior secretaries of the state government landed in Lalgarh on Wednesday to provide relief to the people...Thursday
2 July '09As the Lalgarh operations progressed without any resistance on Wednesday, the police were busy visiting villages and communicating with the masses.Wednesday
1 July '09In a small village in Katapahari paralyzed by fear and deserted by its men fleeing the fallout of the government’s crackdown on Maoists....Tuesday
30 June '09As the security forces entered Kantapahari on Monday, relief camps opened by the People’s Committee against Police Atrocities....Tuesday
30 June '09It all began in this small village when in November last year the police allegedly beat up women and children and made indiscriminate arrests....Monday
29 June '09The security forces may claim to have liberated and sanitised many areas in Lalgarh, but Maoists are seeking new targets — heavily guarded camps of security forces.Sunday
28 June '09The security forces in West Bengal on Saturday succeeded in wresting the treacherous Goaltore-Ramgarh stretch...Sunday
28 June '09The police arrested eight human rights activists, including award winning documentary filmmaker from Karnataka Gopal Menon...Sunday
28 June '09Faced with stiff resistance from the Maoists, security forces today pushed their way ahead firing mortar shells from shoulder-borne rocket-propelled guns to seize control of the Goaltore-Ramgarh stretch of forests and reaching Ramgarh...
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