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Sandip Chakraborty
TMC Sweeps Municipal Polls Amid Allegations of Vote Rigging
15 Feb 2022
TMC’s biggest victory was in Siliguri, where it won 37 out of 47 seats.
Sandip Chakraborty
West Bengal Tourism Industry Bleeds With 90% Bookings Cancelled Under Partial Lockdown
07 Jan 2022
Tour operators and hoteliers question the logic behind allowing the Gangasagar Mela and the civic polls.
Sandip Chakraborty
RSS Praises Modi-Mamata ‘Inseparable Dream’ of Decimating Congress
15 Dec 2021
Swastika, the RSS mouthpiece in West Bengal, has been extremely complimentary about the chief minister’s projected national ambitions.
Sandip Chakraborty
Reeling Under Lockdown Impact, West Bengal Students Junk School for Cash
11 Dec 2021
The number of school dropouts in the state is increasing with students preferring to work and support their families.
Rabindra Nath Sinha
Politics in Darjeeling Hills Hinges on Upcoming GTA Polls
22 Nov 2021
Elections could become a sensitive issue with the opposition of BJP and its ally GNLF, who want a ‘permanent political solution’.
Rabindra Nath Sinha
Mamata does ‘Volte-face’ on Land Acquisition for Coal Mining Project
15 Nov 2021
The CM, who always maintained that land acquisition means forcible takeover, has offered a rehabilitation package to the land-losers of the proposed Deocha-Pachami coal mining venture.
Rabindra Nath Sinha
Grassroots Democracy Eludes Darjeeling, Parties Demand Panchayat Polls
23 Oct 2021
Political outfits have demanded first and second-tier polls even if early Zilla Parishad elections cannot be held.
Sandip Chakraborty
1,200 Marxist Bookstalls in Bengal Promote Communal Harmony
13 Oct 2021
Progressive literature being sold at the Autumn Festival has generated a huge response.
Rabindra Nath Sinha
Politics Grounds Proposed Financial Hub in Bengal
27 Sep 2021
Proposed by the Left Front in 2010, the project was reclaimed by the TMC in 2011 but still hasn’t taken off.
Rabindra Nath Sinha
Bengal Industrial Promotion Board Meaningless with Hands-off Land Policy
28 Aug 2021
Mamata has to spell out her government’s land acquisition policy clearly to assure big-ticket investors