The conscience keeper

There is no refusing Didi in Didi land. Well, that was till West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had to deal with feisty State Election Commissioner Mira Pande. A retired 1974 batch IAS officer belonging to the West Bengal cadre, Pande is ...

Business Blues In Bengal 2010 Tata Motors pulls out its Nano project from Singur before assembly elections 2011 after Mamata mobilises farmers against the plant 2011 TMC government announces its no-government intervention-in-land acquisition ...

A doctor whose neonatal care initiative in Bengal gave the rest of the country a model to follow has been denied permission by the Mamata Banerjee government to be a team leader in a nationwide child health programme. The state health department has ...

New Delhi, May 6: Emotional outrage and politically charged overreach has swamped diplomatic efforts to swap spies for which there is an established mechanism between India and Pakistan, officials in the security and foreign affairs establishments ...

Darjeeling, April 16: A group of alleged Gorkha Janmukti Morcha supporters today vandalised the house of one GNLF leader and assaulted his party colleague at a time the ousted outfit is trying to make a comeback in the hills. Bhanu Lama, a former ...

Mamata's inability to evolve from activist to statesman has sparked a vicious cycle of vendetta politics between Trinamool and Left Old-timers are likely to see the current prolonged spell of violence in West Bengal as a throwback to the 1960s and ...

Old-timers are likely to see the current prolonged spell of violence in West Bengal as a throwback to the 1960s and 1970s when the state was in the throes of a similar upheaval. The protagonists, too, are mostly the same. In the earlier period, the ...

Based on what facts are out there, that death might well be an accident though only an inquiry will establish that. The post-mortem has not found evidence of injuries caused by a lathi, rod or glass?. But with temperatures inflamed all around, ...

Kolkata IPS officer's transfer mere reshuffling? Questions are still being asked about the police officer's transfer by West Bengal Chief M... published: 06 Apr 2012 author: Kolkata IPS officer's transfer mere reshuffling? published: 06 Apr 2012 ...