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a ,Feb. 14: A 72-year-old woman was found murdered at her house in Bansdroni. The victim was identified as Shovna Nandi. Her body was found in a pool of blood in her one-storeyed house in the government colony early on Sunday.

Nanur/Kolkata ,Feb. 14: Two CPI(M) activists were killed allegedly by the Trinamul Congress activists at Nanur in Birbhum, barely six hours after the murder of a Trinamul Congress activist at the same place on Sunday morning. The deceased CPI(M) activists were identified as Kalo Sheikh, 30, and Basudeb Mete, 40.

Berhampore ,Feb. 14: Mankara village on outskirts of Berhampore turned violent on Sunday morning following the death of a vegetable vendor in a road accident. Angry villagers blocked the National Highway 34 to protest against police inaction. The police lathicharged the protesters and even fired several rounds in air. Berhampore town sub-inspector (TSI) Mrinal Sinha was severely injured.

Kolkata, Feb. 11: In the first such gesture since the Lok Sabha polls in 2009, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) leaders like Pradip Bhattacharya and Manas Bhuniya jointly announced that the

Kolkata, Feb. 11: Buoyed up by the massive turn up and that too without its mass leaders — Jyoti Basu and Subhas Chakraborty — at the Brigade Parade rally on Sunday, the Left Front has decided to make the March 12 rally at Ramlila Grounds in Delhi a mega

Kolkata, Feb. 11: A day after the Maoists blew up a part of the Railway track on Howrah-Mumbai route in Orissa, a plastic can stuffed with explosive was found abandoned in a crowded platform of the Howrah station on Thursday afternoon. The bag that

Kolkata, Feb. 11: After Jai Balaji Group, Adhunik Corporation and Shyam Steel are expected to get land as required in the first phase for their steel projects at Raghunathpur in Purulia by March-end.

Kolkata, Feb. 11: Two days after Union home minister P. Chidambaram said that no political party in West Bengal was "colluding with the Maoists", state chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Thursday said that some "evil forces" were creating trouble in

A traffic snarl on the Vidyasagar Sethu during the Left Front rally at Brigade Parade Ground, Kolkata, on Sunday.     PHOTO: Debajyoti Sarkar

Kolkata ,Feb. 7: Upping its ante against the Trinamul Congress, the Left Front on Sunday gave a call to its ranks to “accept the challenge of the Trinamul Congress and turn the tide in Bengal.” While the Left leaders, including chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee were belligerent towards the Trinamul Congress, they remained soft to the Congress in sync with their game plan of driving a wedge between the Opposition alliance.