Nandigram: Will Dada trounce Didi?

Nandigram, 126 km south of Kolkata, is Suvendu Adhikari's bastion, where he has vowed to defeat Mamata Banerjee by 50,000 votes or quit politics.Ishita Ayan Dutt reports. IMAGE: West Bengal Chief......

Communally cleaved Nandigram awaits Mamata-Suvendu clash

A blood-soaked Nandigram made Mamata Banerjee what she is today and underpins the hope of the combustible West Bengal leader of clinching a third straight term in office.   IMAGE:......

'TMC used us to capture power'

Government jobs and financial compensation by the Trinamool Congress government has failed to heal the wounds of the kin of those who perished in the 2007 police firing during an anti-land......

What makes Tuticorin agitation different from others

Mass agitations are not particularly uncommon in India. But a mass agitation led by an environment-related issue that has gone out of hand is not something that can be easily recalled. Ishita Ayan......

SEZs: IT majors wait for Mamata's change of heart

Industry takes heart from Trinamool Congress manifesto's silence on the issue, a marked change from the 2011 one, where special economic zones were a strict no-no Has the West Bengal government......

From an industrial hub to a model village: Nandigram's success story

From an industrial hub as envisaged by the Left regime, Nandigram today is a conglomeration of model villages fenced by its greenery. Image: Nandigram transforms into a model village. Photograph:......

Bengal unclear on people displaced by projects

The West Bengal government has earmarked 30,000 acres for industrial projects (around 7,000 acres has been allocated, the rest is at different stages of acquisition), but even as it faces one of......

Buy land for industry yourself:Bengal to investors

It's official now. The Left Front government won't acquire any land for industry any more. Finance minister Asim Dasgupta formally announced this inWest Bengalassembly on Thursday. Later, land and......

Hosts Pakistan won't shift Davis Cup venue vs India

'They should come to Pakistan. It's not fair that they do not come to Pakistan. The Indian team is much better than us. We have a beautiful hotel just across the stadium. If Indians come it will......