Tension prevails in two Bihar villages after what seems to be an ugly return of old caste-based rivalries, which led to the burning of a dozen homes of dalit and backward families allegedly by the upp

An ongoing massive eviction drive in Jharkhand, which has bulldozed hundreds of homes and made thousands homeless amid violent protests, became politically enmeshed on Sunday when senior BJP leader Ya

It’s official now! Expelled party leader Somnath Chatterjee is not an “untouchable” to the Marxist Party.

“Catch me if you can or else keep your mouth off for the next 10 years and watch us ruling the state,” a vibrant Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee said this while making an open challenge against the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in a tit-for-tat reaction to the state housing minister Gautam Deb’s allegation of illegal funding of the Trinamul Congress in the Assembly polls.

Subhranshu Roy, the son of Union minister of state for shipping Mukul Roy, has not been arrested till date. Mr Subhranshu Roy is the prime accused in the FIR names on the charge of attacking some EC officials at Bijpur in North 24 Parganas on Tuesday. CPI(M) central committee member Gautam Deb on Saturday once again demanded

Taking a jib at Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s “honesty”, state housing minister Gautam Deb on Saturday alleged that the “party she heads pumping in black money worth `100 crores in the Assembly polls to oust the Left Front from power.” He has also accused Trinamul Congress leader and Central minister Mukul Roy as the “main player of this fishy money game”.

The Bengal line finally prevailed over CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat’s diktat of not hobnobbing with any expelled leader, more so if it happens to be former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee. In what appears to be a departure from the Communist Red Book, party politburo member Sitaram Yechury on Friday rallied behind

Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhttacharjee on Friday rued his mistake of “allowing” the agitation staged by Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee outside the Tata Motors’ factory at Singur which brought the business to a standstill for at least 26 days, and ultimately led to the exit of Tatas from Singur.

Launching a scathing against the ruling Left Front, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday said there has been little development in the past 34 years. “The Left Front government is ruling the state for 34 years and it projects itself as the messiah of the poor and the marginalised but it had failed to serve even their cause. Where is that development, the progress and prosperity which the communists had been persistently promising?” she asked.