Breaking the shackles of caste-based discrimination, practiced in a rural pocket of West Bengal for nearly three centuries, representatives of 130 Dalit families for the first time set foot inside......
Threatened, ostracised and pushed to the edge, a group of about 130 Dalit families in West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman district are pinning their final hopes on police and district administration to......
'Congress leaders are ready to lose the election and not form the government, but are never ready to share seats with others.' IMAGE: Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini celebrates the......
Political strategist Prashant Kishor on Monday caused ripples in the choppy waters of Bihar politics with the cryptic announcement of a fresh 'shuruat' (beginning) from his home state. IMAGE:......
Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Friday said that the Lok Janshakti Party left the National Democratic Alliance as it wanted more seats than what the Bharatiya Janata Party was......
After a historical victory on the plank of Maa-Maati-Manush (mother-land-people), the Trinamool Congress government grappled with major economic issues during the year, which experts say, would......
The two-member expert committee constituted by the West Bengal government to draft a new land policy in the state, has recommended direct purchase of land by industrialists from farmers."We have......
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is getting applause from supporters on her decision to take back Singur land from the Tata Group and for her stance on land acquisition.However, this unwillingness to......
West Bengal land acquisition protests in Singur and Nandigram have often been cited as agenda setting events in the country's land versus and industry discourse. The state now has a new policy,......
After experiencing setbacks in Singur and Nandigram, the Left Front government of West Bengal is treading cautiously on the path of industrialisation. Land, the core issue of contention, is now......