In what may snowball into a major controversy, the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), constituted under Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution has lodged a complaint to the Planning Commission against the Assam government on the issue of allocation of funds to the council.

In an apparent setback to the Tata Motors, the Calcutta high court on Monday rejected its plea for an interim order restraining the state government from starting the process of returning land to the unwilling farmers of Singur. Meanwhile, in a pre-emptive move, the state government filed a caveat in the Supreme Court so that any petition by the Tata Motors was not heard ex-parte.

Keen on bringing the Forbesganj police firing on poor Muslims to the national spotlight, LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan plans to hold a demonstration at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on July 5.

It was around 12.05 pm on Sunday. Some officials of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) were busy in the routine maintenance work on the main runway of the Kolkata airport.

As the legal battle continues over the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, between the Tata Motors and the West Bengal government at the Calcutta high court, the government on Sunday

After its stunning success in West Bengal, the Trinamul Congress has set its eyes westward with plans afoot for a foray into Jharkhand with the upcoming Jamshedpur LS bypoll.

The Calcutta high court on Monday rejected Tata Motors’ plea to restrain the West Bengal government from returning land in Hooghly district’s Singur to farmers from whom it was taken by the Left Front regime for the company’s small car plant, a lawyer said.

RTI activist Akhil Gogoi, who was arrested from Guwahati Press Club, was remanded to three days’ police custody. He was arrested for criminal offences for damaging public property, interference in the working of government officials on duty, physically harming government officials, illegally organising meetings, engaging in public fight,

If the Lefts wants to survive and regain their lost glory, they must shed their narrow ideological baggage and adopt fresh ideas. “The Forward Bloc as well as the Left Front should not stick to its anachronistic ideological polemics. It must adopt changes in the changing political scenario, albeit not at the cost of socialism, the ultimate destination

Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal has “discovered” a century-old act that it hopes will help it if it wants to return government-acquired land to the original owner.