CPI (M) State Secretary N.Varadarajan said West Bengal had re-distributed at least 30,000 acres in 2006-2007 as part of implementation of the Land Ceiling Act, in response to Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi’s statement that Tamil Nadu’s track record in land reforms is comparable with that of West Bengal.Mr. Karunanidhi himself had made the statement earlier in response to Mr. Varadarajan’s observation...
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Mumbai/Kolkata, Nov 19 : Indian steel major JSW Steel Thursday announced an agreement with Japan's second largest steelmaker JFE Holdings to set up a greenfield project in West Bengal and an automotive steel manufacturing unit in the country."JFE and JSW will collaborate on a planned plant in West Bengal," said JSW Steel managing director Sajjan Jindal."We are discussing ways and means through which...
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Bhimavaram: West Bengal Minister for Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Ane Sur Rehaman has said BJP, Trinamul Congress and others have joined hands to pull-down the Left Front government from power. However, they were taught a bitter lesson aspeople of West Bengal were solidly behind the State government, he said. The West Bengal Minister was in the town to participate in AP Rythu Mahasabha as the...
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police personnel were abducted by the Maoists ultras in West Bengal's West Midnapore district Tuesday evening, police said....
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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee composed his famous song, “Vande Mataram”, in 1882, he was in many ways symbolizing the beauty of Bengal. Some things here are still eternal. The rich culture of the state binds the population together through its unique unity in diversity and offers matchless geographical variety to its visitors. West Bengal, located in the eastern part of the Indian peninsula, is one of...
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Taking an indirect swipe atMamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress for “importing Maoists”into West Bengal, CPM’s Sitaram Yechury dismissed allegations that hisparty was in league with the ultras.Yechury also made it clear thatin future, there would be no repeat of the Atindranath Dutta case in which someMaoists were released in exchange for the police officer who was kidnapped byMaoists. He said the...
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Naxalism could not form a base in West Bengal for 30 years since its inception due to the political battle waged by the organised Left, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury has said."Please remember that Naxalbari is a village in West Bengal from where this ultra-Left (Naxal) deviation took place. And for 30 years they could not come back to West Bengal only because of the fight we had put up," he told Karan...
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Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Sitaram Yechury has denied allegations that the Marxists and Maoists were in league in West Bengal and alleged that the rebels were "imported" into the state by political opponents - a tacit reference to the Trinamool Congress.Terming accusations of the party's links with the leftwing rebels as "a very unfounded charge", Yechury said: "We are the ones...
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said here on Saturday that the exchange of Naxals' supporters for a policeman was an exception and will not be a policy of his government.Addressing the media on the sidelines of a Communist Party of India (Marxist) Central Committee meeting here, Bhattacharjee said: "Freeing prisoners is not part of our policy or mission."e added that his government is trying to get the Maoists out of West Bengal.On...
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