The Girl Rubbed Her Sindoor, Revolts Against Dowry

By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
Durgapur, March 12 – In an exemplary example, a village girl denied her marriage and stormed out of her wedding venue, rubbing off her sindoor on her head and revolted against groom’s family who demanded a huge dowry.

Later on, the groom Sanjoy, the owner of car rental agency, was garlanded with shoes by [...]

WB Govt Admits Maoists Attack Was Informed To Them, But 3 Hrs Before

By SUNIL Sonkar
Kolkata, Feb. 17 — Intelligence had given warning to the West Bengal government about the Maoists attack. WB government admitted on Wednesday that the information came that Maoists were “assembling” around Shilda (West Midnapor district) police camp area. On Monday their strike killed 24 troops of the Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) in the [...]

Maoist Kill 24 troops in West Bengal

By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
West Bengal, Feb. 16 – At least 24 troops were killed when Maoists had strike a camp of paramilitary forces in West Bengal. Official reported.

Nearly 50 Maoists attacked the camp of the Eastern Frontier Rifles (ERF) when they came on motorcycle and fired from automatic weapons. Later on, more fighters joined the assault [...]

Gorkhaland State Ruled Out By CM

By SUNIL Sonkar
Kolkata, Feb. 12 — West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee rejected the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s demand for a Gorkhaland State on Friday. CM said State government would consider in the region more funds and greater autonomy if the agitators agree to talk and gave up violence.

Bhattacharjee was addressing a Left Front rally on [...]

WB Announces 10% Employment Quota To Muslims

By SUNIL Sonkar
Kolkata, Feb. 08 — West Bengal government announces 10 per cent employment quota on Monday for the community under OBC category. The same day when Andhra Pradesh High Court had struck down job reservation for Muslims.

WB government declared this employment quota for those Muslims who were socially, economically and also educationally backward there.
Buddhadeb [...]

Major Fire In Ultadanga Slum Of Kolkata

By AJITHA Menon
Kolkata, Jan. 12 — A major fire has broken out in the sprawling  Basanti Colony slum area in Ultadanga,  Kolkata. The entire colony, adjacent to the railway line, is in the grasp of the raging fire.

15 fire engines have been rushed to the spot but the fire fighters are finding it  difficult [...]

People of Different Faiths Pray For Jyoti Basu

By AJITHA Menon
Kolkata, Jan. 12 — Former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu is India’s most well known Communist leader and an atheist. But as he lies ailing in his hospital bed, people of different faiths are praying for his quick recovery outside AMRI Hospitals.

Kolkata’s Pakhtoon community gathered on the pavement outside the hospital [...]

Join Mainstream Left Movement, FB tells Maoists

By Ajitha Menon : Kolkata : The All India Forward Bloc today invited the Maoists to join the mainstream and participate in the anti-imperialist Left movement in the country. They have to forsake arms and come for talks, said Debabrata Biswas, General Secretary, Forward Bloc, addressing a press conference after the conclusion of  the five-day [...]

Maoists kill 4 security personal, looted arms, escaped easily in WB

By SUNIL Sonkar
JHARGRAM, India: Maoists killed four security personal and looted arms in a surprise attack on Sunday in Jhargram sub-division of West Midnapore district. The incident took place at around 5:30 pm in this Naxal affected area.

According to the IG (Western Range), Kuldip Singh, the jawans of the Eastern Frontier Rifles were attacked at [...]

No difference between Maoists and Marxists says TMC chief

KOLKATA, India: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday that the Maoists and the Marxists are the two sides of the same coin. She said this countering the allegation of the CPM that correlated TMC with Maoists
Banerjee said to the media, “I think that the Marxists and the Maoists are both sides of [...]

WB BJP President resignes

WEST BENGAL, India: After Vasudhara Raje, now the West Bengal BJP chief had been stepped down for poor performance of BJP in the Lok Sabha election. He has been stepped down a day after Raje bowed to pressure.
Satyabrat Mukherjee resigned from the post of West Bengal President of BJP to abide with the party [...]

Abducted officer-in-charge freed by Maoist in Bengal

MIDNAPORE, India: The kidnapped officer-in-charge was released on Thursday by the Maoist. Atindranath Dutta is the officer-in-charge of the Sankrail police station in West Midnapore district and was kidnapped by the Maoist on Tuesday after they killed two of his colleagues and looted the entire armoury of the police station.
Kishenji, the Maoist leader said [...]

Maoists targeted anti-landmine vehicle in Jharkhand

48-hour strike in West Bengal, Bihar, Chaattisgarh, Jharkhand and Orissa
An anti-landmine vehicle was targeted today by Maoists in Jharkhand amid a 48-hour strike called by Maoists in five states. The security has been put on high alert in the states.
The targeted anti-landmine vehicle was on its way to Ghatshila in East Singhbhum district that [...]

TMC chief says Buddhadeb is a bigger Maoist

TMC chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said that a bigger Maoist is the chief minister of West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.

She also said that TMC will wait for 48 hours and if nothing happens within this time frame then they will hit the streets.
She added, “We don’t support Maoists. If you search the chief [...]