Between her lines, reads Bengal Assembly campaign speech: Singur, Nandigram, Lalgarh, inviting industry

Saturday 4 July '09

There is one project — the extension of the Howrah suburban section into Garden Reach-Kidderpore areas that will touch a small part of my Lok Sabha constituency...

Forces tread cautiously, face mine, bullets

Saturday 20 June '09

A relatively uneventful second day of security operations ended in a blaze of firing and explosions as night fell in Lalgarh’s ‘liberated zone’ on Friday.

Police outsourced security to CPM men, Maoists kill them

Thursday 18 June '09

Having realized that deployment of security forces is just a matter of time now, armed squads of the Maoist brigade went on the rampage in Lalgarh with a sense of urgency hounding out CPM cadres and leaders...

Gorkha dream on hold, GJM looks to agitation again

Monday 18 May '09

The electoral setback to the NDA is likely to impact the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha’s (GJM) plans for a separate state of Gorkhaland.

Buddha skips Politburo, comrade says Karat ignored Basu’s warning

Monday 18 May '09

Dissenting voices within the CPM are rarely heard above the hum of its “disciplined” party machine but after its worst electoral debacle in three decades...

Allies flirting, voters drifting, CPM tones down Karat hardline

Tuesday 12 May '09

After the almost daily refrain of general secretary Prakash Karat that the CPM would not, in any circumstances, support a Congress-led government...

Bengal Round 1: It’s Cong-CPM face-off today

Friday 1 May '09

Barring Darjeeling, where the BJP is almost sure of a win, the rest 13 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal that will go to polls on Thursday...

Bengal Round 1: It’s Cong-CPM face-off today

Thursday 30 April '09

Barring Darjeeling, where the BJP is almost sure of a win, the rest 13 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal that will go to polls on Thursday will see a tussle between the Congress and the ruling Left Front...

‘Advani didn’t want terrorists freed... Atal told me explain it to him, I did’

Friday 24 April '09

L K Advani and Arun Shourie were the two NDA Ministers who opposed the decision to free terrorists in exchange for the passengers of the hijacked Indian Airlines flight in 1999.

Some alliance this: All the Maya’s men slam ‘casteist’ CPM in West Bengal

Sunday 5 April '09

CPM general secretary Prakash Karat may have put BSP leader Mayawati as the bright, shining hope of the Third Front in the post-Lok Sabha poll scenario but in West Bengal...

TMC+Cong means scary maths for Left

Friday 13 March '09

After a separation of almost eight years since 2001 Assembly polls, the Trinamool Congress and the Congress have agreed to be the best of friends in West Bengal...

Art vs reality: Kolkata’s Oscar 2005 has tragic twist

Tuesday 24 February '09

Adorable children who spend their childhood in Mumbai shanties clambered onto the stage at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles today.

West Bengal slides from rank 4 to 13 in industry list of investment hotspots

Monday 23 February '09

With Lok Sabha elections approaching, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has been going all out to hardsell rapid industrial growth but an all-India study released today by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India...