With his exit, the TMC will lose a crucial, politically influential vote catcher in the Jungalmahal region and areas in minority-dominated Murshidabad, and the BJP will get a face it badly needs,......
Nikhil Lakshman remembers the times he spent with the legendary writer who passed into the ages six days before his 86th birthday. IMAGE: Sir V S Naipaul gives the Nobel lecture at the Old Stock......
'In this election -- her first major one since wresting power from the Left -- Mamata has proved that she has simply maintained the Left's systemic status quo by ensuring that she implements the......
Former Communist Party of India-Marxist MP Lakshman Seth, arrested for alleged involvement in the disappearance of six persons in Nandigram in 2007, was on Friday granted bail by the Calcutta high......
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......
ABG Haldia Bulk Terminals, which operates at Kolkata Port's Haldia Dock Complex, is subjecting the vague promises of change in this regard to a sudden and severe test. Saying it cannot carry on......
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, 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......
Mamata Banerjee's opposition to government intervention in land acquisition may have helped her score political brownie points, but it has left industry in West Bengal with a Hobson's choice:......
From chandeliers, balloons, the moon, the reds -- it's the little things that draw us to the bigger picture. Sukanya Verma looks at the jhoola and how it's an unforgettable part of many a Bollywood......