Washington: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says that Marxists and Maoists are plotting to kill her in league with the Pakistani intelligence, North Korea, Venezuela and Hungary. Banerjee made the sensational charge in an interview to the Washington Post. The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) rubbished the allegation. Banerjee told the Post how her "Marxist political opponents were plotting with Maoist rebels to discredit and kill her". They were...
06:44 PM, May 23, 2012
Kozhikode: The Special Investigation team probing the murder of Marxist rebel and Revolutionary Marxist Party leader TP Chandrasekharan has arrested one of the gang members who allegedly hacked him to death. He was arrested in Mysore by SIT and would be produced at a court at nearby Vadakara this evening, police said. Police said SIT are also verifying whether the man, who was reportedly injured in the attack had got...
03:31 PM, May 23, 2012
Kolkata: Marking the anniversary of the end of 34-year-old Marxist rule in the state, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, flanked by her supporters, on Sunday took out a march and claimed that her government had fulfilled most of the poll promises. Banerjee, who walked for two hours non-stop, was accompanied by Railway Minister Mukul Roy and a large number of supporters and party workers in a 10-km procession which...
09:40 PM, May 13, 2012
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the Opposition Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) of hatching a conspiracy to mix poison in a water plant in South 24-Parganas district, provoking the Left to term the remarks "irresponsible" and "defamatory". Speaking in the state assembly, Public Health Engineering Minister Subrata Mukherjee said a "rumour" was circulating at Nodakhali in South 24-Parganas that a water plant had been poisoned....
01:01 AM, Dec 23, 2011
Kolkata: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), leader of the alliance voted out of power in West Bengal, has confessed it was unable to produce ideal Communists. "We could not groom ideal Communist leaders and workers," state CPI-M secretary Biman Bose said after an in-depth analysis of the party-led Left Front's electoral defeat in May. The election, which brought the Trinamool Congress to power, ended 34 long years of Communist...
01:53 PM, Oct 05, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said police will continue their drive to seize illegal arms in the state as more weapons were today recovered in West Midnapore district. Talking to reporters in Kolkata, she said that although her party had been demanding seizure of illegal arms for the past two years, the erstwhile Left Front government did not pay any heed. "We have now asked the...
08:15 PM, May 23, 2011
New Delhi/Kolkata: The battle between Centre and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee over Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's letter asking him to rein in armed Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI(M))cadres to the state government has intensified. The Home Ministry claimed that Chidambaram's letter to the West Bengal Chief Minister was sent by speed post while the state government has been complaining that the letter was leaked to the media...
11:44 AM, Dec 29, 2010
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Tuesday said that Communist Party of India-Marxist supporters have formed camps to protect themselves and that they enjoy police protection because of Naxal threats while replying to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's letter on reining in on armed Marxist cadre in the state. The Bengal Chief Minister pointed out that nearly 260 CPI-M cadres have died so far in Naxal attacks. In...
02:11 PM, Dec 28, 2010
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12:16 PM, Jan 18, 2010
Avowed Marxist but pragmatic politician passes away. ...
02:25 PM, Jan 17, 2010
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08:03 AM, Jan 11, 2010
Is Bengal govt serious about tackling Maoists or is it a public charade? ...
12:24 AM, Nov 09, 2009
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08:58 PM, Oct 25, 2009
DYFI activists squatted on railway tracks when officials tried to stop protests. ...
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