Monday 8 September '08
The two-year-old crisis over Singur which had forced the Tata Motors to think in terms of shifting the Nano car project out of West Bengal seemed headed for a resolution late tonight as a land-for-land agreement...Friday 5 September '08
To keep the Nano factory from moving out of the state, the West Bengal Government is ready with what it calls an “attractive economic package...Wednesday
3 September '08One answer lies in her playing opposition politics, another has to do with the 21 groups which have jumped onto her stage.Wednesday
3 September '08It’s official now. West Bengal will miss its date with the first Nano - the world’s cheapest car that was to roll out of the Tata Motors Singur plant...Monday
1 September '08The familiar political faces were missing when a group of protestors intercepted three busloads...Saturday
30 August '08Politburo statement public censure, says Biman: disconnect between party and govtWednesday
27 August '08Underlining that he was committed to the reforms that he has been pushing in his state, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee...Saturday
23 August '08Ratan Tata’s warning today couldn’t have come at a worse time for West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.Sunday
3 August '08Last month when the Lok Sabha debated and voted the trust motion, there was an unusual Left fellow-traveller watching the proceedings from the Speaker’s gallery.Sunday
27 July '08The CPI(M) expelled Somnath Chatterjee last week but he has always been on the fringes of the party he joined in 1968. Subrata Nagchoudhury profiles the Speaker who was never afraid to speak his mindMonday
14 July '08Striking the first note of dissent within the CPM over party moves to seek Somnath Chatterjee’s resignation as Speaker and vote alongside...Friday
11 July '08The wheel seems to be turning swiftly for the Marxists — a position of power and authority one day, isolation the next.Wednesday
9 July '08It might just have been a coincidence that West Bengal Chief Secretary Amit Kiron Deb was scheduled to meet Union Cabinet Secretary to discuss crucial border-management issues...Thursday
19 June '08Urmilla Rumba thinks nothing of politics—not even as convenor of the powerful eight-member core committee of the Gorkha Janamukti Nari Morcha...Monday
16 June '08As the Darjeeling Additional Superintendent of Police, these are tough days for Jayanta Pal. His days are spent trying...Sunday
15 June '08Rising from humble origins,Bimal Gurung has gone on to capture the imagination of the Gorkha communitySunday
15 June '08The Gorkhas’ demand for a separate state is fuelled by a desire to establish their political identity as Indians.Friday
13 June '08The Army was alerted in Siliguri and adjacent areas after violent clashes today between Gorkhas and non-Gorkhas...Saturday
24 May '08The panchayat poll setback for the Left, and particularly for the Marxists in Bengal, comes as a bitter medicine that it needed for long to mend itself.Thursday
22 May '08The seventh Panchayat poll results in West Bengal today threw up a harsh political reality for the Marxist-led Left Front.Saturday
10 May '08The observer appointed by the West Bengal State Election Commission for Sunday’s Panchayat elections in Nandigram has called the situation there “grim and beyond normalcy.”Saturday
10 May '08It is election time in West Bengal and understandably a time to pull some punches at the Congress by the Marxists.Sunday
30 March '08As Bhutan votes in a new government while giving its king a titular role, the Himalayan country hopes to end its isolation with the rest of the world and join the forces of globalisation.Tuesday
25 March '08As bhutan voted enthusiastically on Monday to hand out a landslide win to a party considered more royalist of the two in the contest...Monday
24 March '08“As you approach the duty of voting at the elections that will bring democracy, do so with pride and confidence.
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