To CPIM's peasant wing, Singur is now a dead issue

KOLKATA: Nirupam Sen, the second in command in former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's cabinet, and the architect of Bengal's industrial drive, isn't in good health these days, being partially impaired by a cerebral attack in 2013. But the ...

KOLKATA: In 2001, just after then Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee announced that the state capital `Calcutta' would be officially renamed `Kolkata', author Mahasveta Devi had welcomed the change.But, almost parenthetically , she had ...

At the turn of the millennium, when Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the then Bengal chief minister, made Tarun Das, the then CII director-general, the chairman of Haldia Petrochemicals, it was hardly considered a law-and-order issue. A decade later in 2011, when a ...

SINGUR: Market forces have come into play in Singur weeks within the Supreme Court directed the state government to return the acquired "Nano land" to landowners. Like other nearby stretches along the Durgapur Expressway , land brokers from outside ...

A day in the life of Indian Coffee House, Kolkata. Photo: Soltan Frédéric / Contributor It is as if the clock stops when you enter Mohan Singh Place, the fusty 1960s building that houses Indian Coffee House in central Delhi. Climb two flights ...

Confusion among Left parties in West Bengal has been further confounded, as feared, by the recent Supreme Court verdict on the Singur land Acquisition dispute. The apex Court declared that the Left Front Government's acquisition of nearly 1000 acres ...

The protesters, led by Mohammed Nizamuddin, queued up outside the office of HIDCO Chairman Debashis Sen, to submit a memorandum to him regarding their demands. DAYS AFTER the Supreme Court quashed Singur land acquisition, hundreds of farmers on ...

10 September 2016, New Delhi, Debashish Banerjee Dhananjoy Chatterjee's death penalty was a moment of renewed faith in the country's system to deliver justice. He was a convicted rapist and murderer of a 14-year-old girl... But was he really? ...

Twelve days, 150 men and a job well done. Preparing thousands of land deeds and hundreds of cheques to Singur farmers in a few days notice was a herculean task. But thanks to the officers and staff of Hooghly district land and land reforms and land ...