After giving them attractive Durga Puja gifts, railway minister Mamata Banerjee is getting ready with Diwali gifts hamper for the people of West Bengal. She has selected CPI(M)’s strong bastions like Burdwan and Purulia to shower her largesses. “Didi will be touring Burdwan, Bankura and Purulia over the weekend where she will

A major fire broke out at the Chemistry Department in the Baker Building of Presidency University at 4.30 am on Friday morning, fire brigade sources said.

With the crucial Assembly polls drawing closer, the ruling CPI(M) is determined to shed the sense of despondency that had engulfed the party rank and file following the back-to-back electoral debacles in the state. The party leadership, which had at one time become virtually reconciled to their fate, has now decided to not give even an inch to the opponent without a fight.

A number of trains, including a Duranto Express, were stranded on Monday at various stations after some passengers blocked tracks at Raka Mines station demanding extra coaches to an Mainline Electric

Two members of the Maoist-backed People's Committee Against Police Atrocities were on Saturday shot dead by the rebels after differences over division of money extorted from local businessmen in Jharg

Around 2,000 Kolkata Metro commuters were suddenly left in a quandary, gasping for breath for over half-an-hour in total darkness after the first two coaches of a train got derailed in the underground tunnel during the rush hour on Wednesday morning. Two passengers — Satyabrata Dutta and Sumana Dey — were also injured in the incident. The derailment was the second of its kind in the history of the Metro railways in the city.

The CPI(M) on Sunday alleged that international reactionary forces were collaborating with anti-Left Front forces to prevent the spread of Left movement in India.

Launching the state-of-the-art financial hub at Jyoti Basu Nagar (New Town) on Wednesday, Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said, “This financial hub which will be of international standard, wil

Taking a break from his hectic official duties in New Delhi and elsewhere, Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee will now, for the next five days, perform the role of a priest and preside over the Durga Puja at his ancestral home in a hamlet in West Bengal’s Birbhum district.

Did the “capture-recapture” drama over the Lalgargh area complete a full circle on Sunday when a mammoth rally of the Marxist party reached Lalgargh after one-and-a-half year the Maoists started domi