Jungle Mahal

More than 73 lakh voters in West Bengal will decide the fate of 191 candidates across 30 assembly segments, most of which are in the once-Maoist-affected Jungle Mahal region, as the state goes to the polls in the first phase on Saturday.

With a state-of-the-art air purification technology, Machan offers an environment with heightened safety in this ongoing pandemic.

It is often said that there is light at the end of the tunnel, this is true for some in West Bengal's Jungle Mahal - once the hotbed for Maoist activity, still poor and backward, but now had one of the best eye hospitals in the state.

In forests in the heart of Delhi, a family of three claiming to be the last descendants of the royal family of Oudh or Awadh in Uttar Pradesh lived for years, isolated and cloaked in mystery. Weeks ago, the last survivor of the family, Ali Raza, who claimed to be the prince of Oudh, died at the tumbledown structure that was "Malcha Mahal".

Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh was all praise for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today for showing "political courage" in transforming Jungle Mahal, a former Naxal hotbed in the state.

A Trinamool Congress supporter was on Friday shot dead by suspected Maoists at Jhargram in West Midnapore district of former Maoist-hit Jungle Mahal area of West Bengal.

On her first visit as chief minister, to Lalgarh the former Naxal hotbed, Mamata Banerjee today criticised the Maoists' cult of violence and killing but did not offer talks with them. Addressing a rally, she also also hit out at the section of intellectuals in Kolkata for indulging Maoists.

Unfazed by criticism that she was wooing them, Trinamool Congress leader and Union Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday stormed the Maoists bastion and appealed to them to halt killings saying joint operations against them should be withdrawn once they come to negotiations. (Read: CPM slams Mamata for Lalgarh rally with Maoists' friends)Accompanied b...

Ahead of a 3-day shutdown called by tribals in Jungle Mahal, suspected Maoists gunned down a CPM zonal committee member.

More than 73 lakh voters in West Bengal will decide the fate of 191 candidates across 30 assembly segments, most of which are in the once-Maoist-affected Jungle Mahal region, as the state goes to the polls in the first phase on Saturday.

With a state-of-the-art air purification technology, Machan offers an environment with heightened safety in this ongoing pandemic.

It is often said that there is light at the end of the tunnel, this is true for some in West Bengal's Jungle Mahal - once the hotbed for Maoist activity, still poor and backward, but now had one of the best eye hospitals in the state.

In forests in the heart of Delhi, a family of three claiming to be the last descendants of the royal family of Oudh or Awadh in Uttar Pradesh lived for years, isolated and cloaked in mystery. Weeks ago, the last survivor of the family, Ali Raza, who claimed to be the prince of Oudh, died at the tumbledown structure that was "Malcha Mahal".

Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh was all praise for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today for showing "political courage" in transforming Jungle Mahal, a former Naxal hotbed in the state.

A Trinamool Congress supporter was on Friday shot dead by suspected Maoists at Jhargram in West Midnapore district of former Maoist-hit Jungle Mahal area of West Bengal.

On her first visit as chief minister, to Lalgarh the former Naxal hotbed, Mamata Banerjee today criticised the Maoists' cult of violence and killing but did not offer talks with them. Addressing a rally, she also also hit out at the section of intellectuals in Kolkata for indulging Maoists.

Unfazed by criticism that she was wooing them, Trinamool Congress leader and Union Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday stormed the Maoists bastion and appealed to them to halt killings saying joint operations against them should be withdrawn once they come to negotiations. (Read: CPM slams Mamata for Lalgarh rally with Maoists' friends)Accompanied b...

Ahead of a 3-day shutdown called by tribals in Jungle Mahal, suspected Maoists gunned down a CPM zonal committee member.