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Mamata razes red fort in bengal

Sunday 17 May '09

Mamata Banerjee’s two-decade-long unwavering struggle against the Communists finally bore fruit in the Lok Sabha results today.
‘Storm of change’: Mamata seeks early Assembly polls

Sunday 17 May '09

Mamata Banerjee’s two-decade-long unwavering struggle against the Communists finally bore fruit in the Lok Sabha results today....
Left allies dig in heels against Cong, BJP

Saturday 16 May '09

Even as the Congress desperately hunts for new allies and woos the estranged ones a day before the counting of votes begins, the news from West Bengal could be unsettling for the Grand Old Party of India.
Mamata counts future options as Left sings to Cong in retro parade

Friday 15 May '09

The latest remarks by senior CPM leaders in which they have expressed their willingness to help Congress form the next government at the Centre in the event of BJP being able to cobble up an alliance, has made the Trinamool wary.
With CPM in deep water over SEZ, ‘outsider’ hopes to drop anchor

Wednesday 13 May '09

For Somen Mitra, the battle for Diamond Harbour LS constituency is a battle for political survival....
Mamata vows to stay away from Left and Right

Monday 11 May '09

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said she will maintain an equidistance from both the CPM and the BJP after the elections.
In Murshidabad, CPM plays victim

Friday 8 May '09

One person was killed in Jangipur, Murshidabad on Thursday as incidents of stray violence continued to disrupt polling in the three constituencies of Behrampur, Murshidabad and Jangipur.
Tapasi Malik is Trinamool’s poll plank in Hooghly

Thursday 7 May '09

Even as the gruesome Tapasi Malik murder case haunts the CPI(M) in Singur and beyond, the comrades are banking on the murder convict...
Mamata rebuts: Take Left support, we walk out

Wednesday 6 May '09

Just hours after Rahul Gandhi claimed he was confident the Left would support a Manmohan Singh govt, his party’s ally in West Bengal struck back criticising him for his remarks — and their timing.
Mamata rebuts: Take Left support, we walk out

Wednesday 6 May '09

Just hours after AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi claimed he was confident the Left would support a Manmohan Singh government, his party’s ally in West Bengal struck back criticising him for his remarks — and their timing.
CPM top guns home in on Mamata in Kolkata South

Sunday 3 May '09

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has now pressed into service six politburo members, including party general secretary Prakash Karat, senior leaders Brinda Karat...
Red alert as tribals stay off polls

Friday 1 May '09

Once natural allies of the CPM-led Left Front in West Bengal, tribals have not only turned their backs on, but are also conspicuous by their absence in the polling booths this Lok Sabha elections.
Amid cross-currents, smaller fish to form their own ‘third front’

Tuesday 21 April '09

Bengal is expected to see its own form of the third front, with smaller parties forming an alliance against the ruling CPM and the Congress-Trinamool alliance.
Bitten by IPL bug, inmates refuse meal, demand TV

Monday 20 April '09

The IPL fever has not only gripped Bengal, but has also sneaked inside the prison bars. Hundreds of inmates of Bengal’s highest-security prison, Alipur Central Jail...
Pranab fights to cut delimitation losses in Jangipur

Thursday 16 April '09

It is delimitation woes versus Pranab Mukherjee’s image that is playing out at Jangipur constituency, where the external affairs minister and Congress veteran is seeking re-election in the Lok Sabha.
After Malda, Cong gets Murshidabad headache

Monday 6 April '09

The Congress, which was on a high after forging an alliance with the Trinamool Congress in the state for the coming Lok Sabha elections, is plagued with infighting in its traditional seats.
Advani gives Mamata stick to hit Left hard

Sunday 5 April '09

With an eye on Muslims who form 27 per cent of the total electorate in the state, the Trinamool Congress has seized upon the disclosure made by BJP leader L K Advani that he had met Marxist veteran Jyoti Basu in 1989...
Singur may get a Nano

Sunday 5 April '09

Tata Motors was driven out of Singur but soon a Nano will make its way back here. Sheikh Zairul Haq, a farmer in Singur whose land was acquired by the state government three years ago for the Nano project, is all set to book the world’s cheapest car.
Singur may get a Nano

Sunday 5 April '09

Tata Motors was driven out of Singur but soon a Nano will make its way back here. Sheikh Zairul Haq, a farmer in Singur whose land.....
Ghani Khan family feud: niece interrupted

Tuesday 31 March '09

The feud in Ghani Khan Choudhury’s family took a turn for the worst on Monday after supporters of the deceased leader’s brother Abu Naser Khan Choudhury prevented his niece Mausam Benazir Noor, the AICC-nominated candidate from Malda North, from campaigning.
Mamata to take on CPM in Cong bastion

Sunday 29 March '09

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee will today hit the campaign trail in North Bengal, where she is looking to strengthen the grassroots level alliance with the Congress in its bastion, besides banking on a possible split in the Left Front’s votes.
Split headache grips Ghani Khan’s family

Friday 27 March '09

Fight for a ticket for the Lok Sabha polls has split the family of late A B A Ghani Khan Choudhury — the Congress veteran who died in 2005 after representing the Malda Lok Sabha seat eight times since 1980 ...
Catch-22 for Trinamool, Cong in mixed-up doubles

Thursday 26 March '09

Somen Mitra and Sudip Bandopadhyay, both state Congress stalwarts who switched sides to join the Trinamool just before the Lok Sabha election dates were announced, are faced with a double whammy.
Govt to get chopper, but Buddha will stay grounded

Wednesday 25 March '09

The Left Front government will get a brand new chopper from a private firm on lease in May. But, for now, it will not be used by Chief Minister.
Trinamool: yes to industries, no to disinvestment

Tuesday 24 March '09

Industry and development, opposition to disinvestment in banking and insurance sector, opposition to construction of shopping malls and focus on a non-BJP.....
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