Mahendra Singh Tikait, well-known farmer leader and president of the Bhartiya Kisan Union, died on Sunday after a protracted illness.

In an attempt to inculcate parliamentary norms among newly-elected Congress MLAs (half of them being new faces), Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said that he would take their classes.

Demolished by the Trinamul wave, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who resigned as the chief minister on Sunday offered to quit from both politburo and the central committee of the CPI(M).

Former Lok Sabha Speaker and expelled CPI(M) leader Somnath Chatterjee on Sunday sent a letter to Trinamul Congress chief and chief minister designate Mamata Banerjee, congratulating her on her victor

CPI general secretary A.B.

City-based seven industry and trade chambers are jointly planning to felicitate Mamata Banerjee after the oath-taking ceremony of the next government with Ms Banerjee as the chief minister.

Initially he wanted to be the Deng Xiaoping (who was instrumental in China’s economic reconstruction following the Great Leap Forward in the early 60s) of Bengal but Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee ended up as the Mikhail Gorbachev of the Marxist party. Buddhadeb’s similarity to Gorbachev was evident when he like the former ideologue of

The government has decided to split national building construction corporation's existing shares of Rs 1,000 face value into ten shares of Rs 100 each with a view to attract more retail investors to NBCC's proposed 10 per cent initial public offering.

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said the government had no role to play in the latest petrol price hike as the prices had been deregulated but virtually stood by the oil marketing companies’ decision, saying the crude rates have gone up by $42 per barrel in the last 11 months. "

Mamata Banerjee was on Sunday formally elected Trinamool Congress Legislature Party leader and said pre-poll ally Congress would be part of her "small" ministry.