WB polls: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee files nomination

Amidst tight security, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Tuesday filed his nomination from Jadavpur constituency in South 24-Parganas district, which will go to polls on April......

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee admitted to hospital with Covid

Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who tested positive for COVID-19 last week, was admitted to a hospital in Kolkata on Tuesday after his health condition deteriorated,......

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......

West Bengal CM meets PM, Chidambaram

As the operation against Maoists in Lalgarh entered a crucial phase, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister P Chidamabaram on......

West Bengal CM rebuffs Wal-Mart

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee toocame out in open opposition against multinational retailers like Wal-Mart as his party's central leadership aired its opposition to FDI in......

JSW breaks ground for 1,600 Mw power plant in West Bengal

The $24 billion JSW Group on Monday kicked off a 1,600 megawatt (Mw) power plant at Salboni in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal — a project that had been waiting in the wings for......

Darkness at noon in West Bengal

The new economic dawn that Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has been seeking to initiate in West Bengal may have received a severe jolt from two ongoing developments. One is the fallout from......

Pranab, Buddhadeb sing the same tune

Ignoring the rivalry between the Left Front and the Congress in the imminent West Bengal Assembly elections, Congress and and Union defence minister Pranab Mukherjee and West Bengal chief minister......