Once a dominant force, West Bengal's Congress party has seen its influence dwindle significantly over five decades. From ...

INDIAN politics since independence has not been short of milk-and-water socialism, such as that on offer in the Congress party. But it has lacked charismatic figures on the left. The exception—in a ...

Jyoti Basu, the reputed elder statesman of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)—India’s principal Stalinist parliamentary party—and for 23 years the Chief Minister of the east Indian state of West ...

Kolkata: CPI(M) patriarch Jyoti Basu turned 95 on Tuesday with a wish to see the Left Front government in West Bengal on its eight consecutive term. "I have no idea how long I will live now but it is ...

Jyoti Basu, 95, a veteran communist leader who in 1996 came close to becoming India’s prime minister, died Sunday in Calcutta of multiple organ failure, a party spokesman said. Basu became chief ...

On 20 May 2011, it was a humid summer afternoon in Kolkata. Crowds gathered outside Raj Bhavan as Mamata Banerjee took oath as the first woman chief minister of West Bengal. The moment marked the end ...

For two decades, former CM Jyoti Basu represented the seat, where voters’ focus is on water crisis and crumbling ...

In a political career that spanned all of India’s 61 years as an independent nation, Jyoti Basu, 95, was the face of India’s Communist Party. He was epitome of a certain kind of leftist — urbane, ...

Kolkata: The mysterious death of Rizwanur Rehman, a 30-year-old graphic designer, has brought the Kolkata Police under the scanner. On Friday, two officers'"an assistant commissioner and a ...

Political leaders from across India gathered in the city of Calcutta today for the funeral of a man known as the patriarch of Indian Marxism. When Jyoti Basu died this past weekend, he was 95. He was ...

Jyoti Basu, who passed away on Sunday, was an iconic figure in Indian politics. More a social democrat than a dogmatic ideologue, Mr Basu worked for and led the communist movement in India for more ...