The beleaguered Left Front has fallen back on 72-year-old warhorse Asok Bhattacharya in its bid to retain the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC), one of the few urban bodies that the Left has manage...

Septuagenarian Asok Bhattacharya is a part of the new CPM committee of the Darjeeling district on Sunday as a “special invitee,” hinting that the veteran is still the main face of the part...

CPM politburo member Brinda Karat, while condemning the Haryana chief minister’s denial of permission to offer namaz in the open, has cautioned BJP against converting the country into “RSS...

Trinamul’s Birbhum chief Anubrata Mondal on Friday tried to woo the tribal populace living on the proposed Deocha-Pachami coal mine area where some have started resisting the idea of shifting fo...

The state election commission on Monday informed Calcutta High Court through an affidavit that the Bengal government proposed that polls to 111 civic bodies “may be held in 6 to 8 phases” ...

Opposition parties, including a few social organisations, have started arriving in Birbhum’s Deocha-Pachami to reach out to the villagers and read their pulse on the coal mine project. To count...

The CPM’s Jharkhand unit staged a protest in line with the nationwide call against increasing attacks on minorities, in over 143 blocks of 15 districts across the state on Wednesday. “CPM...

Aiden is the name Anupama Chandran gave her son when she received him after an excruciating struggle. It means “the little fiery one” with its etymological roots in Irish mythology. C...

The Left Front announced its list of candidates for Calcutta Municipal Corporation polls on Friday, before Trinamul did later in the day,  and stuck to its Assembly poll strategy of fielding youn...

The Supreme Court on Thursday took the uncommon step of asking the Union home ministry while local body elections were going on in Tripura to deploy additional central forces to ensure free and fair p...