'Democracy can't survive if playing field is uneven': Congress MP Manickam Tagore as NDA leads in BiharVote counting is underway in Bihar. Early trends show the National Democratic Alliance leading significantly. The opposition's Mahagathband...
14 Nov, 2025, 11.16 AM IST
Stalin backs Mamata in row over Delhi Police letter, calls Bengali remark an ‘insult to the language of National Anthem’"The Delhi Police, under the Union Home Ministry, has described Bengali as a 'Bangladeshi language.' This is a direct insult to the very la...
04 Aug, 2025, 10.26 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee be held accountable under NSA for inciting linguistic conflict: BJP's Amit MalviyaBJP leader Amit Malviya has called for action against West Bengal's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. This comes after a controversy erupted ...
04 Aug, 2025, 09.09 AM IST
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee: Communist who wooed capital for industryBuddhadeb Bhattacharjee, a former West Bengal chief minister, passed away at 80, noted for prioritising industrialisation over strict Marxi...
08 Aug, 2024, 12.09 PM IST
Obit: Legendary actor Soumitra Chatterjee was often referred to as Satyajit Ray's 'alter ego'Chatterjee became an integral part of Bengal's art and cultural life with his movies.
16 Nov, 2020, 11.26 AM IST
Somnath Chatterjee was more a Bengali bhadralok than a copybook communist ideologueAs his memoir ‘Keeping the Faith, Memoirs of a Parliamentarian’ reveals, Basu too found merit in his arguments that the Speaker need not be...
14 Aug, 2018, 11.30 AM IST
Freedom, poetry, rebellion and music ... when we lived our bravest momentsThe Seventies was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of...
15 Aug, 2017, 11.44 AM IST
I am not a part of political parties or ideologies, rather a victim of it: GulzarFor now, Gulzar wants to write and translate good literature as long as he able to. He is unfazed with public perception.
13 Aug, 2017, 12.01 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee’s politics may be indigestible to aesthete but delightful to multitudesWhen Mamata takes out a rally men, women and children throng the roads to get a glimpse of her as she walks smiling and waving at the horde...
12 Apr, 2016, 04.00 AM IST
Assembly elections: Why it would be an uphill task for Congress & not for BJPFor the Congress, it would be an uphill task to retain either Assam or Kerala, and avoid being left with Karnataka as the lone major state ...
13 Mar, 2016, 08.04 AM IST
Rename secularism. Call it 'dharma' or righteous administrationDharma or righteous administration must be rooted in the thinking of Tagore and Gandhi. Both were deeply learned in scriptures, but both re...
17 Sep, 2014, 11.33 AM IST
Trinamool Congress, BJP in secret coalition for Lok Sabha polls: Buddhadeb BhattacharjeeBuddhadeb Bhattacharjee today alleged that Trinamool Congress had secretly tied up with BJP for the coming 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
22 Dec, 2013, 05.50 PM IST
- Mamata criticises Maoists and cautions intellectuals
Mamata Banerjee today decried the Maoists' cult of violence and killing but did not offer talks with them.
24 Apr, 2012, 10.07 PM IST
Renaming of West Bengal: The banality of paribartonThe metro renaming exercise had become the butt of innumerable jokes among commuters, but the establishment wasn't impressed.
22 Aug, 2011, 10.42 AM IST