Now Mamata Banerjee re-christens projects named after Left leader Jyoti BasuIn just 2 months after those protests, West Bengal government in West Bengal appears to be on a mission to re-christen state projects, and ...
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- Prisoner release:Buying truce with Maoists
Release of political prisoners has been a popular demand - and a populist move - in Bengal , a state ridden with political violence.
20 Jun, 2011, 12.03 PM IST
- Kim Davy extradition: Loss of Left in WB may be CBI's gain
The change in guard at Bengal was announced on May 13, 3 days before Danish HC was scheduled to hear extradition case of Davy.
27 May, 2011, 03.53 PM IST
- No official agency connived with Purulia arms drop case accused: Government
Govt rejected the charge that any official agency had "connived or helped" Purulia arms drop case accused to destabilize the Jyoti Basu gov...
30 Apr, 2011, 08.15 PM IST
- Left had failed to make inroads, Basu told Karat
It must have been the years of heading a Left government that made Jyoti Basu realise in his last days that the Communist movement was in f...
28 Jan, 2010, 01.59 AM IST
- Basu's ancestral house in Bangladesh to be made a library
Late CPI(M) leader Jyoti Basu's ancestral house in Bangladesh's Narayangunj district would be converted into a library as per his wish.
18 Jan, 2010, 12.48 PM IST
- Basu pushed land reforms but left Bengal as industrial wasteland
Despite hailing from a party seeped in dogmatism, he was credited with running a coalition through consensus politics.
18 Jan, 2010, 08.51 AM IST
- Jyoti Basu: The light of communist movement in India
Jyoti Basu's embodied both the success and failure of India's communist movement. Chronology of Jyoti Basu's life | Marxist who almost beca...
18 Jan, 2010, 08.39 AM IST
- Basu to be cremated on Tuesday
The eyes of Basu, who had donated them, were removed by doctors of an eye hospital.
17 Jan, 2010, 02.08 PM IST
- CPM patriarch Jyoti Basu passes away
Basu was suffering from acute respiratory problems. Basu was India's longest serving CM. Jyoti Basu: Marxist who almost became India's PM |...
17 Jan, 2010, 12.14 PM IST
- Mamata meets Jyoti Basu
After routing his party in the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal, railway minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturda...
13 Jun, 2009, 09.14 PM IST
- Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee likely to step down by August
CPM’s core insiders are trying their level best to hold him back till Aug.
18 May, 2009, 07.57 PM IST
- Architect of historic blunder ready to be in power
CPM general secretary Prakash Karat, who was instrumental in stonewalling efforts to install veteran Marxist Jyoti Basu as prime minister i...
23 Apr, 2009, 02.25 AM IST
- WB govt will join tripartite meet if called by Centre: Basu
Marxist veteran Jyoti Basu said on Friday that the West Bengal government will take part in a tripartite meeting if held at the instance of...
20 Jun, 2008, 05.29 PM IST
- Basu cannot stand Gandhi's experiments with power cuts
CPM leader Jyoti Basu on Friday launched a foul-mouthed tirade against West Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi, terming the latter’s volun...
10 May, 2008, 04.56 AM IST
- Basu rules out withdrawal of Left
CPI-M patriarch Jyoti Basu today ruled out withdrawal of Left support from the UPA government on the Indo-US nuclear deal issue.
17 Aug, 2007, 02.20 PM IST
- Jyoti Basu invites Mamata for talks on Nandigram
In an attempt to end the standoff over West Bengal government's move to acquire farmland in Nandigram for industries, CPI-M patriarch Jyoti...
04 Jun, 2007, 06.50 PM IST