Veteran CPI-M leader Shyamal Chakraborty succumbs to COVID-19

Veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Shyamal Chakraborty, who was diagnosed with COVID-19, died at a hospital in Kolkata on Thursday, his party said. He was 76.   Chakraborty, an......

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee passes away

Communist veteran and former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee passed away at a private hospital in Kolkata on Monday following multiple organ failure. He was 89. IMAGE: The former Speaker had......

Sitaram Yechury re-elected as CPI-M general secretary

IMAGE: Sitaram Yechury's election to the post for the second time was approved by the Left party’s newly-elected 95-member central committee. Photograph: PTI Photo After weeks of......

1993 police firing on Mamata rally worse than Jallianwala Bagh: Probe

In a huge embarrassment for the Left Front, a Commission of Inquiry into the police firing on a Youth Congress movement in 1993 killing 13 persons on Monday said that it was worse than the......

Bengal industrialisation put off for 3 months:Basu

The West Bengal government has decided to postpone its ongoing industrialisation drive for three months to take up an extensive campaign to convince people that it would not take place at the cost......