A senior CPI leader has openly urged the Left government in Kerala to file its objections to the draft environment impact assessment notification before the last date on Tuesday. Rajya Sabha member B...

A single-window cell will be set up at the Calcutta Municipal Corporation headquarters for thika tenants interested in developing their land to submit applications and obtain permission, civic officia...

Soccer has always been known to mesmerise Bengal and now, it has cast a mysterious spell that makes officials either amnesiac or tongue-tied.On October 26, when the Indian Super League match was about...

“After so many years of Left Front rule, you now need a hira (diamond), not the manik (ruby) you already have, to usher in an era of true development,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi had thundered d...

The CPM has started campaigning for Congress candidate Adhir Chowdhury in the Behrampore Lok Sabha constituency — where the RSP “unilaterally” fielded its own nominee — to honour the Left Fron...

Rahul Gandhi on Thursday told reporters he wouldn’t utter a word against the CPM and its allies, saying he fully understood why Kerala’s ruling Left parties were upset with his decision to contest...

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...

I am often asked: why has the Left, so powerful less than a decade ago, suddenly got eclipsed? The question is pertinent. True, the eclipse of the Left is mainly in the electoral arena, and the Left�...

The Mamata Banerjee government’s plan to pass a bill to prevent lynching in Bengal has come under the scanner of Raj Bhavan with the Congress and the Left bringing to governor Jagdeep Dhankhar’s n...

Sir — One agrees with Ramachandra Guha’s view that communist thought should be indigenized (“Homely traditions”, June 22). Karl Marx’s economic theory was designed for an industrialized nati...