Tripura’s urban body polls on Thursday will not only be held amid “unprecedented” security concerns aired by the Opposition but also under the scanner of the Supreme Court that has d...

Footnote Covid-19 restrictions were cited to keep some prominent people away from the BJP’s national executive committee meeting in Delhi last week. Among them was the former cabinet minister, ...

An elderly CPM worker was beaten to death and another severely injured allegedly by a group of Trinamul workers at Baiguni village of Birbhum’s Nanoor on Monday morning. The family members of t...

Yechury also sought a withdrawal of excise duties on petroleum products. “Looting the people! Imposing intolerable miseries on people already suffering under the double whammy attacks of Covid &...

A nearly 10-day-old hunger strike by a Dalit science PhD scholar who has alleged caste harassment at the Mahatma Gandhi University here and refused to become “another Rohith Vemula” has pr...

Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Monday alleged that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, BJP’s ideological parent, multiplied the number of its shakhas or branches manifold in the st...

Ratna Bhattacharya, the wife of veteran CPM leader and former MLA and mayor of Siliguri Asok Bhattacharya, died at a private nursing home in Calcutta on Wednesday morning. She was 69. Party leaders s...

As the CPM prepares for its 23rd all-India Congress, the shadow of Bengal looms large over the party in Kerala. In its determination not to repeat the mistakes of the party during its over three-deca...

The documents that Rajnath and others with a similar view rely on were a reply from Gandhi on January 25, 1920, to a message from Savarkar’s brother N.D. Savarkar, and an article titled “S...

The Left, primarily the CPM, is passing through an ideological and practical crisis. Can it overcome this crisis and add to the strength of a united Opposition challenging the BJP? Political scientist...