Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who will be remembered both for his commitment to the communist ideology and a pragmatic approach to industrialising the state, passed......
Former West Bengal chief minister and a front-ranking Marxist leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will go down in the country's history as a pragmatic communist who kept aside his ideological......
He was reviled by critics in his party as a neo-liberal in disguise but till the end, he retained his belief in secularism and the humanity of Communism. IMAGE: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, then the......
There seems to be no place for the poor or middle class gentry in the top echelons of India's politics, which has become the exclusive fiefdom of crorepatis. Rediff.com takes a look at the richest......
There seems to be no place for the poor or middle class gentry in the top echelons of India's politics, which has become the exclusive fiefdom of crorepatis. Rediff.com takes a look at the richest......
On the eve of Durga Puja in October 2008, industrialist Ratan Tata announced that Tata Motors would withdraw from the nearly completed Nano car plant in Singur, attributing the decision to Mamata......
It was the summer of 2006 (May 18). Writers’ Building, then the state secretariat, was buzzing with journalists. The event marked the start of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s second term as......
Contrary to former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's plan of making Singur an industrial hub for the state, it became a seething faultline, triggering the end of three decades......
In July 1998, Bata managing director Keith Weston was hospitalised with a deep gash following an assault from a trade union leader. For anti-capitalist trade unions, it was a pyrrhic victory......
Draped in red flags of the Left Front, Singur wore an unfamiliar look on Sunday, when West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee rose to promise several hundred thousands of people that......
Reader Kamlesh Suvarna sent us this photograph. 'I met Sachin Tendulkar while he was playing in the nets at the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) ground at Bandra Kurla complex in Mumbai,'......
The ICC has scrapped Eden Gardens as a venue for India-England World Cup match due to preparation issues but West Bengal Sports Minister Kanti Ganguly on Friday asked the Cricket Association of......