Midnapore: A CPI(M) candidate for the Panchayat polls, along with his two female family members and a child, was on Monday beaten up in Midnapore district allegedly by Trinamool Congress activists, police said.
Manju Singh was at his home in Salboni area when the attackers beat him up. Two of his female family members and a child who were there during the incident also got injured, police said. All of them have been taken to a local hospital.
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12:38 AM, Jun 11, 2013
Kolkata: Over 66 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the Howrah Lok Sabha by-poll in West Bengal on Sunday. The polling was peaceful. Chief Electoral Officer Sunil Gupta told reporters that till 6 pm, when the voting closed, 66.20 per cent of the electorate exercised their franchise. However, Gupta said as there were people still in the queue in some booths, the final percentage might increase by one or...
03:08 PM, Jun 02, 2013
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that the CPI-M, the Congress as well as the BJP have joined hands and fielded Independent candidates to eat into Trinamool Congress' votes in the upcoming Lok Sabha by-election. "Some Independent candidates belong to the Congress, some of them belong to the CPI-M and some of them to the BJP," Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress supremo, said in Kolkata. She...
05:10 AM, May 29, 2013
Hyderabad: Senior CPI leader AB Bardhan on Saturday took exception to some CPI (M) leaders' reported remarks over his party's policies and programmes. Noting that the CPI (M) leaders claimed that his party had no programme or policy, he said, "The CPI continued to work vibrantly on various burning issues and problems of the poor and the deprived." He spoke at the state council meeting of the CPI in Hyderabad...
12:25 AM, May 19, 2013
Burdwan: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday slammed the Opposition for conspiring to prevent her government from holding panchayat polls on time and vowed that elections will be held at the appropriate time. "Panchayat polls will be held at the appropriate time. Work for panchayats and 100 days' will not be hampered", she said at a party rally here without elaborating. "We have been trying to hold panchayat...
01:59 AM, May 11, 2013
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday took on the Central government on the incursion by Chinese troops 19 km inside the Indian side in Ladakh's Daulat Beg Oldi and alleged that China is constructing bunkers in Eastern Ladakh. The BJP also alleged that government has failed to end the Chinese incursion as asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to intervene and end the stand off. BJP spokesperson Prakash...
10:44 AM, May 02, 2013
Thiruvananthapuram: The pro-CPI(M) youth outfit Democratic Youth Federation of India would launch a campaign to "uphold secular culture" in Kerala from April 30 to May 8. In a statement, DYFI state president M Swaraj and secretary TV Rajesh said the organisation would hold meetings across the state at the grassroot level. The aim of the campaign is to "uphold secular culture and isolate religious terrorism," the statement said. The UDF...
12:03 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Kolkata: With the Mamata Banerjee regime readying to crack the whip on the chit funds by bringing a new Bill, a debate has begun whether it will stand up to judicial scrutiny as the government has apparently decided to implement the law with retrospective effect. The West Bengal Protection of Interest of Depositors in Financial Establishments Bill, 2013 will have retrospective effect, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee said. It will...
10:44 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Kolkata: In the wake of the collapse of the Saradha Group, an under pressure Mamata Banerjee is all set to bring a new law that allows takeover of chit fund companies and confiscation of properties. The opposition though has slammed the move saying the Bill has nothing new. This comes even as another investor committed suicide in Purulia. The draft of the new Bill that was circulated among West Bengal's...
07:53 AM, Apr 28, 2013
New Delhi: CPI(M) Politburo Member Brinda Karat reiterated the Left party's demand to send the Land Bill back to a Select Committee. Karat was speaking to CNN-IBN's Rupashree Nanda. Here's the transcript of the interview: CNN IBN: The signal that came out of the all party meet that was held on the April 18 was that the Left had agreed not to send the Land Bill back to the Select...
10:27 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Kolkata: Threatening to file defamation suit against CPI(M) leaders for alleging that he had received crores from absconding Saradha Group chairman Sudipta Sen, TMC general secretary Mukul Roy on Sunday said the government will take steps to book the accused and protect investors' interest. "These are baseless allegations. I will file a defamation suit against them (CPI(M) leaders)," Roy said referring to the allegation of his receiving money from the...
09:14 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Delhi: The Parliament is all set to resume the second part of the Budget session on Monday after a four-week long recess. The Budget session, which began on February 22, will conclude on May 10. The stage seems set for a stormy session, with Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari on Sunday suggesting punishing MPs who indulge in hooliganism. His proposals for restoration of the dignity of Parliament were,...
06:40 PM, Apr 21, 2013
New Delhi: BJP leader Sushma Swaraj's demand for death penalty to child rapists on Sunday got the backing of CPI(M) which said it was open to the idea. "We are willing to discuss and consider this because what happened in this Delhi rape case is gruesome. There is something seriously wrong in the society and there is no fear of the law," CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury told reporters outside Parliament...
03:31 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Kolkata: The bereaved elder sister of a Students Federation of India (SFI) activist, whose death in police custody led to noisy protests, on Wednesday called for a ban on politics at educational institutions and urged students not to join politics. She alleged that party leaders use innocent students for their political interests. Sudipto Gupta, a post-graduate student of Rabindra Bharati University and an activist of CPI-M's student wing SFI, died...
01:55 AM, Apr 04, 2013
A Trinamool Congress worker was called out of his house and shot dead at Kadaghata under Chakdaha Police Station in Nadia district on Saturday, police sources said. The assailants fired twice at TMC worker, Praladh Roy, with one of the bullets hitting him, the sources said. ...
12:18 AM, Mar 24, 2013
Manik Sarkar is set to make history when he is sworn in as Tripura's Chief Minister for a fourth successive term. The Left celebrated election victory in Tripura and their man of the moment is Manik Sarkar winning an unprecedented fourth term. ...
07:44 AM, Mar 06, 2013
The Trinamool Congress won English Bazar (Malda), the Congress bagged Rejinagar (Murshidabad) while Nalhati went to Forward Block in the by-elections held on February 23. ...
09:23 AM, Feb 28, 2013
Calls for the resignation of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairperson PJ Kurien are increasing. The Opposition in Kerala, where Kurien hails from, has held demonstrations outside the state assembly asking for his resignation. ...
02:27 PM, Feb 06, 2013
Kerala High Court on Monday stayed the trial against 15 accused, including KK Rageesh, MLA and CPI(M) state committee member, in the case relating to the murder of Revolutionary Marxist Party leader TP Chandrasekharan. Justice VK Mohanan issued the order while admitting the plea of the 15 accused. ...
06:07 PM, Jan 21, 2013
In a virtual indictment of the West Bengal government, Governor MK Narayan on Wednesday said "goondaism" was taking place in the state, rocked by Trinamool-Left clashes, and police should act impartially. ...
10:49 AM, Jan 10, 2013
