Modi to flag off world's longest Varanasi-Dibrugarh river cruise on Friday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the world's longest river cruise, MV Ganga Vilas, and inaugurate a 'Tent City' on the banks of the Ganga river in Varanasi on January 13 via video......

Suvendu quits Mamata cabinet, BJP says "beginning of the end" for TMC

Suvendu Adhikari, the face of the Nandigram movement that added to the political heft of Mamata Banerjee and catapulted her to power in West Bengal, resigned from her cabinet on Friday, setting off......

Nandigram violence: CPI-M's Lakshman Seth in CID custody

The alleged mastermind of the Nandigram violence of 2007, Lakshman Seth, arrested from a Mumbai guest house last Saturday, was produced on Tuesday in a court at Haldia which remanded him to three......

Nandigram homeless beaten, 50 return to camp

Efforts to bring home people displaced from Nandigram after recent clashes suffered a setback on Thursday when Communist Party of India-Marxist activists allegedly beat up some of them, forcing at......

What 'parivartan'? It's business as usual at Haldia

In 2007, East Medinipur district was home to a massacre that took place when 14 villagers were gunned down by the state police over the Nandigram agitations. The event turned out to be the......

Haldia caught in a political crossfire

Haldia, West Bengal's biggest industrial hub, has started feeling the heat of the political crossfire in the state. The Tamluk Lok Sabha constituency (which includes the Assembly constituencies of......

No forceful acquisition of land for industrialisation: Mamata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday once again made it clear that there would be no forceful acquisition of land for setting up industry. Speaking at a programme at Kolaghat in......

Mamata raps Buddhadev on land acquisition

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......