The Mamata Banerjee government has decided against attending the tripartite talks in a bid to register its grievance over the manner in which the meeting was called. Sources in the government said th...

The Centre’s proposed tripartite meeting on Gorkhaland on October 7 has evoked strong reactions from Trinamul, CPM and Congress. Trinamul leaders made it clear that “not an inch of land i...

The Centre has convened a meeting “to discuss the issues related to Gorkhaland” on October 7 — incidentally the foundation day of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha — with the state govern...

Former militants and linkmen of the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation in Cooch Behar district have decided to launch a movement from October 1, demanding government jobs and an autonomous council for t...

The students of Government Vocational College  at Dentam in West Sikkim have threatened to take the agitation path from September 12 if their long-pending demands, including introduction of post-...

A 22-year-old youth was killed as arson and protests continued for the third straight day here against the Arunachal Pradesh government’s decision to grant permanent residence certificates (PRCs) to...

A conglomeration of over 20 trade unions of tea garden workers has threatened an agitation in the Darjeeling hills for immediate payment of arrears and fixing of minimum wages in the sector. The Joint...

Normal life is back on track in Assam with the state remaining peaceful after several days of violent protests against the new citizenship law.The curfew imposed in Dibrugarh has been relaxed for 14 h...

The heads of department staff — section officers and ministerial officers — have decided to intensify their pen-down agitation by staging a gherao of Naveen Nivas, chief minister Naveen Patnaik’...

It would be too simplistic to argue that Mamata Banerjee came to power because of the Singur-Nandigram agitation that was opposed to land acquisition. The turning point for the Left in West Bengal was...