Limelight back on Tata Motors' failed Singur project as West Bengal elections draw closeWith nearing polls; the Singur factory-where some sheds and a wall mark West Bengal's failed attempt to jump on the industrialisation-is ba...
22 Jan, 2016, 01.23 PM IST
CBI is 'Congress Bureau of Investigation': Mamata BanerjeeMamata Banerjee today dubbed CBI as the 'Congress Bureau of Investigation' for apparently giving a "clean chit" to the erstwhile Left Front...
30 Jan, 2014, 06.37 PM IST
- PC asks Buddha to act against armed cadres
Bengal CM draws Chidambaram’s attention to Maoist-TMC ‘Nexus’.
20 Jan, 2011, 06.18 AM IST
- Lalgarh killings: HC asks Bengal govt to file affidavit by tomorrow
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday asked the state government to explain why a CBI probe should not be ordered into the January 7 Lalgarh f...
12 Jan, 2011, 01.55 AM IST
- Bengal clears Nandigram payouts after SC rap
The Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government is now working overtime to disburse cheques to the 159 injured before the Nandigram case comes up fo...
29 Oct, 2010, 07.37 AM IST
- Karat, Yechury to attend Bengal meet on Sunday
CPM all-India general secretary Prakash Karat and polit bureau member Sitaram Yechury will attend a two-day state committee meeting of the ...
27 Nov, 2009, 03.52 AM IST
Standoff overshadows Mamata protest planMamata had called on the home minister to highlight the plight of the abducted cops’ families after West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’...
28 Oct, 2009, 10.44 AM IST
- Mamata to accompany parents of missing WB police officials to Delhi
Railway minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has decided to take up the cause of two police officials who were abducted by...
24 Oct, 2009, 08.14 PM IST
- Politburo demands deployment of central forces in Lalgarh
Way before the West Bengal CPIM’s official reaction to Monday’s violent Maoist strikes on their Lalgarh cadre was available, the politburo ...
16 Jun, 2009, 09.31 PM IST
- Bird flu spreads to more areas, Centre unhappy on WB steps
As bird flu spread to more areas in West Bengal, the Centre today expressed its unhappiness over the steps taken by the state to contain th...
19 Jan, 2008, 05.17 PM IST
- Panic in Kolkata following reports of bird deaths
Some bird deaths in Friday triggered panic among residents even as culling operations in bird flu-hit areas of Birbhum and South Dinajpur d...
18 Jan, 2008, 12.38 PM IST
- Buddha finds Nandigram too hot to handle
The CPI(M) may have “recaptured” Nandigram through its own ‘Operation shock and awe’, but West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharje...
17 Nov, 2007, 12.07 AM IST
- 'Nandigram firing unconstitutional'
HC directs CBI to continue with probe into police firing, asks state to pay rs 5 lakh for each death.
17 Nov, 2007, 12.00 AM IST
- CBI lends credence to Digvijay Singh report
The CBI probe into the Nandigram massacre has revealed the involvement of the party militia in the attack. The initial report of the agency...
22 Mar, 2007, 02.08 AM IST
- Mamata reaches Nandigram
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday reached this trouble spot in East Midnapore district, where 11 people were killed in p...
15 Mar, 2007, 12.40 PM IST
- Buddhadeb's behaving like a despot: BJP
BJP Chief Rajnath Singh came down heavily on chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee in the aftermath of the killings following police firin...
15 Mar, 2007, 03.41 AM IST
- It was Buddha's blunder
The blunderbuss was a muzzle loader, very popular in the 17th century, with a flared barrel which discharged all its balls at one shot. Clu...
15 Mar, 2007, 03.40 AM IST