The CPI(M) central committee on Saturday discussed the contours of the draft resolution for the next party congress which will be held in Kerala in the first week of April in 2012. On Friday, the party’s politburo meeting was held.

Leaving its electoral debacle in Bengal and Kerala behind, the CPI(M) has decided to launch a frontal attack against the Congress-led UPA government over corruption, price rise and Lokpal bill. The decision was taken in the party’s politburo meeting held on Friday in Kolkata. Former chief minister

Union home ministry sources told this newspaper Wednesday that the Bangladesh government had started the process of handing over detained Ulfa leader Anup Chetia, confirming reports in Dhaka that he had been

What seems to be an apparent climb down from its initial stand, the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) indicated that it has agreed to the proposal of the state government to bifurcate Jalpaiguri district.

At least one passenger was killed while 18 others injured in a train accident at Bankorpur of Kaliachak in Malda on Sunday evening. The death toll is expected to rise.

Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said that the draft of the land acquisition bill would be modified to clarify some issues as suggested by the Trinamul Congress.

A teenaged girl in Chandauli district was seriously injured when an unidentified youth threw acid on her on Sunday morning.

The Maoists gunned down three tribal villagers and set afire a former mukhia’s house in Bihar’s Rohtas district late on Saturday evening reportedly in retaliation of the recent murder of one of their

Upping her ante against the Congress-led UPA government for not yet providing money to bail out cash-strapped Bengal, chief minister and Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday instructed he

The alleged industrial land “scam” in Bihar became wider and murkier on Sunday with the Opposition RJD accusing the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government of allotting land belonging to a state-owned sick PS