CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat has decided to hold the next central committee meet in Kolkata from December 17 to 19 to ensure the presence of former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattachar-jee. Shell shocked by the Left Front’s humiliating exit from power and the decimation of the CPI(M) in Bengal, Mr Bhatt-acharjee has persistently skipped central committee and

Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday joined forces with state Congress leaders who attacked chief minister Mamata Banerjee, accusing her of trying to marginalise the Congress in the state. Mr Ramesh said: “The

In his inaugural speech at the Panchayati Raj Conference in Kolkata, Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee spoke at length about the importance of three-tier panchayat system.

In his inaugural speech at the Panchayati Raj Conference in Kolkata, Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee spoke at length about the importance of three-tier panchayat system.

The Maoist surrender continued in the Jangalmahal as another rebel cadre gave himself up before the Purulia police even as West Bengal police chief Naparajit Mukherjee affirmed on Sunday that the join

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday said it would oppose the UPA government’s move to allow “big capital” foreign direct investment (FDI) multi-brand stores across cities and towns in the count

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi will launch a five-day mass contact programme in Uttar Pradesh from November 22.

When the brief two-day Winter Session of the UP Assembly that begins on Monday — also the last Assembly session convened by this government, UP chief minister Mayawati will, perhaps, face the most cru

Political compulsions might compel India’s Marxists to rewrite their ideology. In a possible historic deviation, CPI(M) leaders are considering whether to embrace religion, which they once termed the “opium of the masses”.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Saturday made it clear that his government was not going to accept any proposal of the home ministry intruding or giving access to NSCN (I-M) into the rights of the state. Referring the