Veteran CPI-M leader Shyamal Chakraborty succumbs to COVID-19

Veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Shyamal Chakraborty, who was diagnosed with COVID-19, died at a hospital in Kolkata on Thursday, his party said. He was 76.   Chakraborty, an......

Mamata declares candidates for all 42 seats in Bengal, 41% are women

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday released the list of ruling Trinamool Congress candidates for all the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state, dropping 10 sitting MPs......

EXPLAINED: The Saradha chit fund scam

  What is the Saradha scam all about, who are the main players behind it? Indrani Roy/Rediff.com presents an faq. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her ministers won't forget......

Cong starts process to fill up Rajya Sabha vacancies

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has called a meeting of chief ministers of 12 Congress-ruled states to figure out how to fill out the vacancies in the Rajya Sabha. Highly-placed sources have......

Shareholders vote down Birla nominees to board of directors

Vindhya Telelinks, Universal Cables and Birla Cable shareholders go against family’s wishes. IMAGE: Harsh Vardhan Lodha. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com. The Birla camp failed to......

Strike: Normal life hit in Kerala, Bengal, Tamil Nadu unaffected

Though buses and trains plied normally in Bengal and TN, office attendance was less The nation-wide strike called by central trade unions, on Friday, hit normal life in Left-ruled Kerala with......

Bribery, bad loans and India's nationalised banks

The incidence of corruption cases can be checked to a large extent if the suggestions already available with RBI and the government are taken seriously, says Shyamal Majumdar.Reserve Bank of......

'I felt we did not require Prez nod for Singur Act'

West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan said on Friday he had thought that the the Singur legislation did not require Presidential approval, three days after the Calcutta High Court ruled it as......