With her trademark cotton sari and rubber slippers and her generous doles in rural Bengal, many describe Mamata Banerjee as "ultra left."Payal Mohanka reports on how Mamata hijacked the Left plank.......
Unless the Naxals put a stop to violence, Operation Green Hunt will continue, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram told mediapersons at Kolkata's Writers' Building on Tuesday. The home minister met......
Talks between the Maoists and the West Bengal government seems imminent with the Maoist leader Koteshwar Rao alias Kishenji informing rediff.com over telephone from an undisclosed location late on......
In a fresh spurt of violence in Nandigram, seven persons were reportedly injured in adjacent Khejuri area as Communist Party of India-Marxist and Trinamool Congress activists opened fire at each......
A fire broke out at the West Bengalsecretariat, Writers' Buildings, on Thursday causing damage to the departments of Refugee Rehabilitation, Fire and Municipal Affairs. Fire brigade officials said......
Putting up a brave front after the exit of Tata's Nano project from Singur, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya on Sunday said the state government will fight and overcome the......
The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday demanded from the West Bengal government that 300 acres of land should be given from within the Tata Motors project area in Singur to 'unwilling farmers,' even as......
The current violent political situation in West Bengal is attracting adverse media coverage, so much so that while industries here felt chief minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee was the only man who......
The West Bengal government has decided to postpone its ongoing industrialisation drive for three months to take up an extensive campaign to convince people that it would not take place at the cost......
On Monday, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya's promise to the people of Nandigram that land would not be acquired till the people......
'Then, one fine morning, I returned to my first love.''All the top directors of the time were waiting for me.''In one day, I signed 12 films.''Prosenjit Chatterjee was back!' Photograph: Kind......
Some of the world's leading women's tennis players, including world No. 14 Anastasia Myskina of Russia and Indian sensation Sania Mirza, will be seen in action in the US $170,000 WTA Sunfeast Open......
Furthering his business plans, including the setting up of a mega Cricket City, in Kolkata, Australian cricket legend Steve Waugh submitted a master plan of his projects to West Bengal Chief......
It was a function to felicitate the performance of the Indian team and local boy Sourav Ganguly's brilliant captaincy at the World Cup, but guess who stole the show? Ganguly's chubby,......