TMC promises better drainage, traffic management at Jadavpur
Jadavpur, once considered a stronghold of the Left, the CPI-M has fielded former Kolkata Mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya.
Jadavpur, once considered a stronghold of the Left, the CPI-M has fielded former Kolkata Mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya.
The CPI-M has also fielded Sabina Yasmin, the mother of Class V student Tamanna Sheikh, who was killed allegedly during a bypoll victory celebration last year, from Kaliganj in Nadia.
The Left Front on Thursday announced its second list of candidates for the upcoming Assembly election in West Bengal, taking its total tally of declared nominees to 234 out of 294 seats.
Allegations of assault on a CPI-M worker have been levelled against the Trinamul Congress, as unrest erupted once again over wall writing campaigns.
During a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar earlier this week, majority of players, including the BJP, Congress and CPI(M), reportedly demanded that the polls be held in one or two phases.
The content of the complaint is that prominent CPI-M leaders in the state have illegal financial deals with a London-based businessman, Rajesh Krishna.
Internationally acclaimed Indian swimmer Bula Chowdhury broke down upon discovering that her Padma Shri, Arjuna Award, and other valuable medals and trophies had been stolen from her ancestral residence in Hindmotor, Hooghly district.
The Syro-Malabar Church on Saturday strongly criticized the CPI-M, accusing the Left party of targeting Thalassery Archbishop Joseph Pampalany for thanking Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi following the release of Catholic nuns imprisoned in Chhattisgarh.
The West Bengal unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has accused social media giant Facebook of blocking the upload of a party-produced video highlighting the plight of migrant workers from the state, calling it a case of "digital censorship" and "ideological bias" against left-wing content.
Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) president Mar Andrews Thazhath on Monday said the arrest of two Malayali nuns in Chhattisgarh is deeply painful, and that the matter had been taken up with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Union ministers Suresh Gopi and George Kurien.
