Mansura Begum, former chief of Kendamari-Jaalpai panchayat in Nandigram, was re-elected panchayat pradhan on Tuesday, embarrassing Trinamul that had nominated panchayat member Sakina Khatun instead. ...

An area committee secretary of the CPM East Midnapore’s Mohammedpur unit was beaten up on Monday by alleged Trinamul activists during a event to observe the martyrdom of those killed by the poli...

Around 100 BJP workers in Nandigram’s Gokulnagar fled their homes following a violent clash with Trinamul supporters, and then with police, on Thursday night. The clash, which allegedly took pl...

East Midnapore’s Sutahata police on Wednesday started a probe into alleged misappropriation of Amphan aid by a panchayat pradhan after the block administration lodged an FIR, the first in the di...

Panchayat officials in East Midnapore's Nandigram-I and II held the three hours given to them to draw up the list of beneficiaries and laxity of block officials to verify names responsible for mas...

Around 1,000 villagers blocked roads and waved black flags at police in Nandigram on Thursday morning in an eerie reminder of the 2007 land agitation which is considered as one of the reasons for the ...

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...

The fallout of the Nandigram land agitation and the subsequent political turmoil had forced CPM leader Himangshu Das to stay out of East Midnapore’s Khejuri for 11 years but his decision to stand by...

Over 100 family members of stranded migrant labourers from East Midnapore’s Nandigram on Saturday morning gheraoed the residence of Congress leaders Milan and Sabuj Pradhan pressing them to follow u...

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said the CPM harmads (mercenaries) involved in the Nandigram “recapture” operation were donning the saffron jersey now and had become “jalhad (executione...