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Members of the Students' Federation of India (SFI) and Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) staged a protest in Kolkata on Monday night after the death of a DYFI activist, who sustained injuries during a march to Secretariat on February 11.

Left parties in West Bengal have called for a 12-hour bandh across the state on Friday to protest a police crackdown on students and youth marching towards Nabanna, the state secretariat, on Thursday.

The Communist movement in India will turn 100 years next year and to mark the occasion the Communist Party of India (Marxist) commenced year-long celebrations with a meeting in Kolkata on Thursday where the party called for a no-holds barred battle against Hindutva and the BJP-RSS attempts to polarise the country on communal lines.

Veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata after he complained of breathlessness on Friday. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also visited the facility to enquire about his health.

Doctors in Kolkata, who have been on strike for the last four days over the assault of their colleague, on Friday set six conditions to withdraw their protest that has crippled health services across West Bengal and also demanded Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's unconditional apology.

Striking junior doctors of Kolkata's government hospitals today defied Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's 2 pm deadline to get back to work, saying that won't happen until they get better security. They also met Governor Kesari Nath Tripathi to discuss the situation. Mamata Banerjee has accused the BJP and the CPM of engineering the strike and playin...

The Congress and the CPM trained its guns on Mamata Banerjee days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an interview to Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, said that the Bengal Chief Minister "personally" selected kurtas and sent him as gifts. While senior Congress leader Raj Babbar said he wondered how the Trinamool Congress chief knew the "size of Modi...

Hazra More in the heart of South Kolkata is significant in the politics of West Bengal as 29 years ago, Chief Minister and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee was savagely attacked by CPM activists and that was her second coming.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said 20 more bridges in Kolkata have been found to be weak. Pointing out that the earlier Left Front government had built the bridges, she said "There is no use blaming us". An investigation is on and strong action will be taken against whoever is responsible, she added.

Fierce overnight clashes between Trinamool and CPM left three people dead at Amdanga, about 60 km north of Kolkata. Earlier this morning, a person with bullet injuries and rushed to hospital in a critical condition.

Leaders from several political parties, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi, have tweeted condolences on hearing that former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee has died. He was 89. The 10-time parliamentarian was admitted to a Kolkata hospital with a kidney ailment.

Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee died on Monday morning in Kolkata days after he was admitted to hospital with a kidney ailment. He was 89 years old. Mr Chatterjee, who was admitted to Bellevue hospital on August 8, was put on ventilator support after he suffered a heart attack. His condition turned critical on Sunday morning.

The cautious stance of Bengal's Trinamool Congress about Congress slipped today when Mamata Banerjee took the stage at a party meeting. Talking of the political situation in the state, Ms Banerjee lumped the Congress with the BJP, the Left and the Maoists as the "darkest underbelly of society".

'Poriborton' which in English means 'change' was Mamata Banerjee's war cry against the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee led Left Front government in West Bengal, which she swept out of power in 2011. Now the former chief minister is using the same slogan against Ms Banerjee's party and the BJP.

The shock defeat in Tripura was bad enough for the CPI(M). But the demolition of the statue of communism's icon Vladimir Lenin at south Tripura's Belonia, a four-hour drive from capital Agartala, was such a symbolic blow that it brought the party's top leaders out on the streets of Kolkata on Tuesday. Leaders of the Communist Party of India (Marxis...

Members of the Students' Federation of India (SFI) and Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) staged a protest in Kolkata on Monday night after the death of a DYFI activist, who sustained injuries during a march to Secretariat on February 11.

Left parties in West Bengal have called for a 12-hour bandh across the state on Friday to protest a police crackdown on students and youth marching towards Nabanna, the state secretariat, on Thursday.

The Communist movement in India will turn 100 years next year and to mark the occasion the Communist Party of India (Marxist) commenced year-long celebrations with a meeting in Kolkata on Thursday where the party called for a no-holds barred battle against Hindutva and the BJP-RSS attempts to polarise the country on communal lines.

Veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata after he complained of breathlessness on Friday. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also visited the facility to enquire about his health.

Doctors in Kolkata, who have been on strike for the last four days over the assault of their colleague, on Friday set six conditions to withdraw their protest that has crippled health services across West Bengal and also demanded Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's unconditional apology.

Striking junior doctors of Kolkata's government hospitals today defied Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's 2 pm deadline to get back to work, saying that won't happen until they get better security. They also met Governor Kesari Nath Tripathi to discuss the situation. Mamata Banerjee has accused the BJP and the CPM of engineering the strike and playin...

The Congress and the CPM trained its guns on Mamata Banerjee days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an interview to Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, said that the Bengal Chief Minister "personally" selected kurtas and sent him as gifts. While senior Congress leader Raj Babbar said he wondered how the Trinamool Congress chief knew the "size of Modi...

Hazra More in the heart of South Kolkata is significant in the politics of West Bengal as 29 years ago, Chief Minister and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee was savagely attacked by CPM activists and that was her second coming.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said 20 more bridges in Kolkata have been found to be weak. Pointing out that the earlier Left Front government had built the bridges, she said "There is no use blaming us". An investigation is on and strong action will be taken against whoever is responsible, she added.

Fierce overnight clashes between Trinamool and CPM left three people dead at Amdanga, about 60 km north of Kolkata. Earlier this morning, a person with bullet injuries and rushed to hospital in a critical condition.

Leaders from several political parties, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi, have tweeted condolences on hearing that former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee has died. He was 89. The 10-time parliamentarian was admitted to a Kolkata hospital with a kidney ailment.

Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee died on Monday morning in Kolkata days after he was admitted to hospital with a kidney ailment. He was 89 years old. Mr Chatterjee, who was admitted to Bellevue hospital on August 8, was put on ventilator support after he suffered a heart attack. His condition turned critical on Sunday morning.

The cautious stance of Bengal's Trinamool Congress about Congress slipped today when Mamata Banerjee took the stage at a party meeting. Talking of the political situation in the state, Ms Banerjee lumped the Congress with the BJP, the Left and the Maoists as the "darkest underbelly of society".

'Poriborton' which in English means 'change' was Mamata Banerjee's war cry against the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee led Left Front government in West Bengal, which she swept out of power in 2011. Now the former chief minister is using the same slogan against Ms Banerjee's party and the BJP.

The shock defeat in Tripura was bad enough for the CPI(M). But the demolition of the statue of communism's icon Vladimir Lenin at south Tripura's Belonia, a four-hour drive from capital Agartala, was such a symbolic blow that it brought the party's top leaders out on the streets of Kolkata on Tuesday. Leaders of the Communist Party of India (Marxis...