The Election Commission of India feels that the law and order situation in West Bengal is much worse than it had expected earlier.

Three CPI(M) activists, including a local leader, were shot to death allegedly by the armed Left wing ultras at a tea stall in the Jangalmahal early Sunday.

West Bengal governor M.K. Narayanan on Friday expressed deep concern on the support Maoists were getting from civil society. “Maoism is becoming a fashionable trend in different states, including West Bengal, and students in universities are getting attracted,” he said. He was addressing a security seminar organised by CII.

Expressing deep concern over the support the Maoists were receiving from a section of civil society, West Bengal governor M.K. Narayanan on Friday said that the trend of Maoism had become fashionable in the campuses. “Maoism is becoming a fashionable trend in different states, including West Bengal and students in different

The West Bengal Congress leaders on Thursday decided against doing or saying anything that might queer the pitch for the alliance with the Trinamul Congress. Realising Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s growing importance in the UPA, the state Congress leaders have decided to leave the decision on seat-

Unfazed by West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s complaint of Trinamul Congress-Maoist nexus to Union home minister P. Chidambaram, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee dismissed it as inconsequential.

In what must have come as some relief to the beleaguered West Bengal government, the Calcutta high court on Wednesday refused to accept a prayer for CBI inquiry into the Netai carnage.

The order on a plea seeking CBI probe into the January 7 Lalgarh firing incident was not passed on Tuesday as proceedings were not held at the Calcutta high court due to the death of a veteran advocate.

A six-member team of special observers of the Election Commission (EC) led by chief electoral of Bihar Sudhir Kumar Rakesh will start visiting the districts of Bengal from Monday to make a first-hand

Upping its ante against the Union government on price rise in the country, the CPI(M) will launch a countrywide agitation with other Left parties on this issue.