The former top cop, 66-year-old H.D. Safwi, an avid reader, who also loves his golf, was handpicked by Mamata Banerjee for the Assembly elections to contest from Uluberia East constituency in Howrah.

It’s a grand win for J. Jayalalithaa and her AIADMK party, but the victory of the people of Tamil Nadu is grander still. For quite some time now the rest of the country had been looking down on them as an electorate up for sale. Many of them at the poll booths on April 13 might have taken money but they still went ahead and obeyed their

A blamegame has started within the Left as the Marxist citadel finally fell at the hands of its arch rival Trinamul Congress on Friday. The CPI(M) central leadership pinned the blame on the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-led Left Front government saying that the “mistakes’’ committed in Nandigram and Singur and other “local’’ factors led to the

A virtual tsunami unleashed by Trinamul Congress chieftain Mamata Banerjee made history here on Friday — dethroning the longest-serving democratically-elected Communist government in the world. The star of Vladimir Lenin — to whom the state’s CPI(M)’s rulers routinely paid public tribute and whose photograph had pride of place in their offices — had well and truly dimmed after 34 long years.

The drubbing and debacles of the Marxist party in the polls seem to have completed a full circle with all the bigwigs in the previous Cabinet, including chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Nirupam Sen, Gautam Deb, Ashok Bhattacharjee ending up as big losers in the polls. The million dollar question which has now cropped up

A major fire broke out in a shopping complex under a flyover in Defence Colony in south Delhi on Friday morning. The fire broke out in a shop around 4.30 am, said fire officials.

When Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee became sanguine of dislodging the Left Front from power and taking over the reins of West Bengal, one concern still kept gnawing her: the sagging economy of the state. To salvage the sagging financial position of the state, she zeroed in on Amit Mitra. She thought that if any one could

Milk prices in the city are set to go up by `2 from Saturday as Mother Dairy announced a price hike by citing a hike in procurement prices.
“To ensure availability of milk, Mother Dairy is forced to pay an increased procurement price. The procurement price for milk has increased substantially since December

The ouster from the red bastion, West Bengal, and defeat in Kerala has reduced the Left, particularly the CPI(M), to a near- irrelevance in the national politics. The Marxists now, hold power only in Tripura.

The barking of dogs sparked an ugly confrontation in west Delhi’s Mundka area on Thursday evening as a man was stabbed to death while his brother is battling for life at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital.