Biman Bose

Left Front Chairperson Biman Bose on Sunday said there is no misunderstanding between the Congress and the Left Front and asserted that both of them will contest the 2021 West Bengal Assembly polls together.

Two civic police volunteers were on Saturday arrested for allegedly beating up a CPM supporter who was "returning" after attending Left Front Chairman Biman Bose's rally last evening at Tarakeswar in West Bengal's Hooghly district.

Expressing displeasure over the performance of Election Commission and the central forces during the polls in West Bengal on Monday, Opposition parties alleged "match fixing" between BJP and TMC, which, it said helped the ruling party to let lose a reign of terror.

Pointing fingers at the Trinamool Congress, the Left Front today claimed widespread booth capturing and false voting in the second round of the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly polls.

West Bengal's main opposition Left Front today released its first list of 116 candidates for the upcoming Assembly polls.

Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee today filed a defamation suit against West Bengal Left Front chairman Biman Bose in the Calcutta High Court demanding a compensation of Rs 10 crore.

A nationwide bandh or strike called by ten major trade unions today paralysed West Bengal, where unions enjoy significant clout. Clashes were reported from different parts of the state including capital Kolkata; women protesters were seen being dragged by women cops.

Fresh battle lines have been drawn in West Bengal with chief minister Mamata Banerjee today criticising the Left parties for clashes in Kolkata yesterday, threatening to 'finish' such protests in a minute. Her warning comes as the Left said that their shutdown on September 2 would be historic.

Central Kolkata and parts of adjoining Howrah turned into a battlefield today, Left parties claim that nearly 200 protesters were injured in clashes with the police during a march to the secretariat to demand farmers' rights, as chief minister Mamata Banerjee termed it as a "barbaric" act by Left supporters.

Transport unions and workers went on a strike across the country on Thursday, but in West Bengal, this took a back seat. The CPM and the BJP separately organised a bandh against what they claimed was violence by Trinamool cadre during the recent civic polls. The bandh turned into a direct face-off between the ruling Trinamool on the one hand and th...

At least two people suffered bullet injuries in a clash between members of the Trinamool Chattra Parishad and the BJP student wing, or ABVP, at Itahar in Bengal's North Dinajpur district on Monday.

Police firing on a Mamata Banerjee rally in 1993 that killed 13 Congress workers was "worse than the Jallianwala Bagh massacre", a commission of inquiry has said in its report.

The CPI(M) today went online by logging into its Facebook account and Twitter handle, a move aimed at wooing young electors, a sizeable number of whom would be first-time voters in the coming Lok Sabha elections.

Left Front chairman in West Bengal Biman Bose Wednesday moved the Election Commission accusing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of violating the model code of conduct for the Lok Sabha polls by making a "virulent and unverified" attack on the CPI-M and other parties.

Alleging that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's opposition to the Teesta water sharing treaty with Bangladesh has helped anti-India communal forces in that country, Left Front chairman Biman Bose said today its repercussions can be felt in Bengal and India.

Left Front Chairperson Biman Bose on Sunday said there is no misunderstanding between the Congress and the Left Front and asserted that both of them will contest the 2021 West Bengal Assembly polls together.

Two civic police volunteers were on Saturday arrested for allegedly beating up a CPM supporter who was "returning" after attending Left Front Chairman Biman Bose's rally last evening at Tarakeswar in West Bengal's Hooghly district.

Expressing displeasure over the performance of Election Commission and the central forces during the polls in West Bengal on Monday, Opposition parties alleged "match fixing" between BJP and TMC, which, it said helped the ruling party to let lose a reign of terror.

Pointing fingers at the Trinamool Congress, the Left Front today claimed widespread booth capturing and false voting in the second round of the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly polls.

West Bengal's main opposition Left Front today released its first list of 116 candidates for the upcoming Assembly polls.

Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee today filed a defamation suit against West Bengal Left Front chairman Biman Bose in the Calcutta High Court demanding a compensation of Rs 10 crore.

A nationwide bandh or strike called by ten major trade unions today paralysed West Bengal, where unions enjoy significant clout. Clashes were reported from different parts of the state including capital Kolkata; women protesters were seen being dragged by women cops.

Fresh battle lines have been drawn in West Bengal with chief minister Mamata Banerjee today criticising the Left parties for clashes in Kolkata yesterday, threatening to 'finish' such protests in a minute. Her warning comes as the Left said that their shutdown on September 2 would be historic.

Central Kolkata and parts of adjoining Howrah turned into a battlefield today, Left parties claim that nearly 200 protesters were injured in clashes with the police during a march to the secretariat to demand farmers' rights, as chief minister Mamata Banerjee termed it as a "barbaric" act by Left supporters.

Transport unions and workers went on a strike across the country on Thursday, but in West Bengal, this took a back seat. The CPM and the BJP separately organised a bandh against what they claimed was violence by Trinamool cadre during the recent civic polls. The bandh turned into a direct face-off between the ruling Trinamool on the one hand and th...

At least two people suffered bullet injuries in a clash between members of the Trinamool Chattra Parishad and the BJP student wing, or ABVP, at Itahar in Bengal's North Dinajpur district on Monday.

Police firing on a Mamata Banerjee rally in 1993 that killed 13 Congress workers was "worse than the Jallianwala Bagh massacre", a commission of inquiry has said in its report.

The CPI(M) today went online by logging into its Facebook account and Twitter handle, a move aimed at wooing young electors, a sizeable number of whom would be first-time voters in the coming Lok Sabha elections.

Left Front chairman in West Bengal Biman Bose Wednesday moved the Election Commission accusing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of violating the model code of conduct for the Lok Sabha polls by making a "virulent and unverified" attack on the CPI-M and other parties.

Alleging that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's opposition to the Teesta water sharing treaty with Bangladesh has helped anti-India communal forces in that country, Left Front chairman Biman Bose said today its repercussions can be felt in Bengal and India.