Bangladesh suspects got ‘character certificates’ from Bengal politicians

Tuesday 4 September '07

Security agencies investigating the arrest of 11 suspected militants this year at the Haridaspur border checkpost in Bongaon

Terror groups sneaking in cadre as ‘students’ via Indo-Bangla border

Monday 3 September '07

They come in as students from Bangladesh to a convenient double-life in India. With “student” stamped on their papers...

Buddha to skip CPM meeting for Abe

Wednesday 22 August '07

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is scheduled to host a lunch for visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe...

N-deal opposition has Bengal Left squirming

Wednesday 15 August '07

With the CPM ratcheting up the tension by dismissing the Prime Minister’s statement on the Indo-US nuclear deal...

Here’s looking at you, Haldia

Saturday 28 July '07

The results of the municipal polls held recently in Haldia, West Bengal, were decoded furiously by pundits of ‘national’ politics.

Haldia’s united colours, barring red

Sunday 22 July '07

It is a grand alliance like no other in West Bengal. A minor municipal poll in Haldia has got the Congress, Trinamool Congress

Gained in transition

Sunday 1 July '07

At 33, when he gave his first speech as Minister, Marx was his text. And yet he talked about the freedom of the artist and the winds of change. Last Sunday, as a Chief Minister marking 30 years of Left rule, what was once between his lines became his central theme: I, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, want change, and want it now

To catch a dead tiger by its tale

Saturday 23 June '07

It was a sign of the perilous state of wildlife conservation in West Bengal: the shocking death of a Royal Bengal Tiger near Coochbehar recently..

When Mamata does business with Basu

Saturday 9 June '07

The Left in Bengal tries Track II political diplomacy with the Trinamool leader to protect its model of rapid industrialisation in the state

Left loses Panskura to combined oppn

Thursday 31 May '07

The results of the panchayat and municipality bye-polls in West Bengal had mixed signals for the ruling alliance.

Iran must use N-power for peace: Kalam

Friday 27 April '07

President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam on Thursday reiterated India’s commitment to nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation while making a joint statement with Greek President Karlos Papoulias.

Kalam makes case for knowledge platform

Thursday 26 April '07

Addressing the European Union parliament here this morning, President A P J Abdul Kalam broached the idea of launching three Indo-European missions...

2nd term in office? Postpone answer, says Kalam

Wednesday 25 April '07

If one wants to know if President A P J Abdul Kalam is willing to stay in office for a second term, here are some first-hand responses from the man himself.

CITU wants to ride the automobile sector

Wednesday 18 April '07

When Hindustan Motors Ltd, the grand-daddy of India’s automobile industry, declared suspension of work at its Uttarpara plant in West Bengal on April 11 following union trouble, the response from most would have been, “There goes CITU again!”

Next to Nandigram firing site, CPM men were holed up with arms, ammo: CBI

Sunday 1 April '07

The CPM-led Left Front government in West Bengal has maintained that the March 14 police firing in Nandigram in which 14 people were killed was “unfortunate” and “tragic”...

For first time, Opp has chosen right issue but roll back will be disaster for CPM: CM’s No. 2

Thursday 29 March '07

If West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today underlined the economic necessity of his industrialisation policy

Economics trumps politics? Mamata men get Tata work contracts

Tuesday 27 March '07

Politics may have put economics on hold in West Bengal’s Nandigram but less than two hours away, in Singur, at the site of the Tata’s Rs 1-lakh car plant...

Party stands by Buddha, gets restive allies to fall in line

Sunday 18 March '07

In a strong signal that the CPM is squarely behind West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee as he comes under political attack over Nandigram...

Nandigram: Court orders CBI inquiry, mob violence still on

Friday 16 March '07

As the death toll in the police firing yesterday climbed to 14 and the Calcutta High Court ordered a CBI probe into the incident

Nandigram on boil again, at least 11 killed in clashes, police firing

Thursday 15 March '07

A month after an intelligence official was lynched and a police team attacked by a mob, Nandigram was on the boil again today with at least 11 persons being killed and over 25 injured as political workers

Singur drama: Comrade vs Comrade, film vs film

Wednesday 14 February '07

The film could have been dismissed as another Opposition rant against the CPM government except that it’s produced by a former CPM member and is being patronised by a section within the party

In Nandigram, CPM stares at crisis of credibility

Monday 15 January '07

If a large section of the nearly 1.75 lakh people in Nandigram are not convinced about Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s plans for the Special Economic Zone here...

Before Buddha smiles

Saturday 30 December '06

Mamata Banerjee’s fast is over. But Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s troubles may only have begun. He must confront the opposition within his own party on the land issue

Kalam, PM get Didi off her fast track

Friday 29 December '06

Ten minutes after midnight, into the 26th day of her protest against the government’s acquisition of farmland for the Tata small-car project...

In Singur, furore over elderly couple’s death

Friday 29 December '06

The gruesome murder of an old, well-off farmer couple in Singur’s Doloigacha — about 5 km from the Tata Motors small car project site...