rediff

logo

News APP

NewsApp (Free)

Read news as it happens
Download NewsApp

Available on  gplay

Shyamal Chakraborty

Rediff.com  »  News  »   Shyamal Chakraborty

  News for Shyamal Chakraborty

  • News
  • Business

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......

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee: Marxist who wooed capital for industry

Former West Bengal chief minister and a front-ranking Marxist leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will go down in the country's history as a pragmatic communist who kept aside his ideological......

Left parties banking on Jyoti Basu's memory for a revival?

After being marginalised by the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal in the Panchayat polls, the Left parties have appealed the prime minister to issue a commemorative stamp in the late leader’s......

Cong starts process to fill up Rajya Sabha vacancies

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has called a meeting of chief ministers of 12 Congress-ruled states to figure out how to fill out the vacancies in the Rajya Sabha. Highly-placed sources have......

Mamata declares candidates for all 42 seats in Bengal, 41% are women

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday released the list of ruling Trinamool Congress candidates for all the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state, dropping 10 sitting MPs......

BJP, CPI-M trash Railway Budget

The opposition parties, the BJP and CPI-M on Thursday dubbed the Railway Budget "imaginary" and "document of dreams" as there was no allocation for completion of various railway proposals in it.......

Left unions' nationwide strike hits normal life

Claiming that Thursday's general was a near total success in left-ruled West Bengal, Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) declared that the agitation would not send any wrong message to prospective......

As EVs rise in India, a requiem for Kolkata's electric trams

Kolkata trams -- now in their 150th year -- are the last to survive modernity in Indian cities, writes Ishita Ayan Dutt. IMAGE: Tram at Esplanade depot in Kolkata. All photographs: Hitesh......

Strike: Normal life hit in Kerala, Bengal, Tamil Nadu unaffected

Though buses and trains plied normally in Bengal and TN, office attendance was less The nation-wide strike called by central trade unions, on Friday, hit normal life in Left-ruled Kerala with......

Shareholders vote down Birla nominees to board of directors

Vindhya Telelinks, Universal Cables and Birla Cable shareholders go against family’s wishes. IMAGE: Harsh Vardhan Lodha. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com. The Birla camp failed to......

Top Coverage News


World Test Championship 2023

India held the top position in the ICC Men's Test Team Rankings while Australia secured the...

Manipur's Tragedy

Here are news, updates and coverage from violence hit Manipur.

IPL 2023

Complete coverage of IPL 2023

Sri Lanka's Tour of India 2023

Complete Coverage of Indian cricket team's encounter with Sri Lanka during 3rd Jan - 15th Jan 2023.

GUJARAT, HIMACHAL GO TO POLLS

The Bharatiya Janata Party was on Thursday poised for a landslide victory in Gujarat to retain...
Broswe by: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z