-The Hindu But both police and Tritiya Prastuti Committee deny claim Kunda (Jharkhand): All through Monday and Tuesday, cadres of the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), a splinter group of the banned CPI (Maoist), in the Sarengdah and Kunda panchayats in Chatra district kept track of what their leaders decided to do with the 25 Maoists taken hostage four days ago. In the March 29 attack, the TPC also killed 10 Maoists after...
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SFI leader’s death causes furore
-The Hindu Police do not deny that it was a case of death in police custody, but say they exercised restraint Kolkata: The death of a State committee member of the Students Federation of India (SFI), students' wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), allegedly in police custody has created a stir here and raised fresh questions about police excesses in the State. Sudipta Gupta, who completed his post-graduation from the Rabindra...
More »Poll panel moves court to reject panchayat schedule
-PTI Kolkata: The Election Commission in West Bengal today moved the Calcutta Hight Court seeking rejection of the government notification on poll schedule as the state government decided to contest it. The State Election Commission in its petition claimed that Section 42 of the West Bengal Panchayat Election Act, which states that the state government is empowered to notify election in consultation with the commission, is unconstitutional. The commission also prayed that it...
More »Looms fall silent in silk town -Umanand Jaiswal
-The Telegraph Sualkuchi: The sound of wood striking wood was missing, as was the sight of intricate and colourful patterns on silk taking shape on the loom. This silk town, around 35km from Guwahati and on the North Bank of the Brahmaputa, seemed to have lost its raison d'etre - producing silk products of fame - after the invasion of similar products bearing the name of another town on the bank of...
More »The fear that triggered call for forces
-The Telegraph Chief minister Mamata Banerjee will not know Pushpa Tudu. Neither will state election commissioner Mira Pande. Such an assertion can be made because Pushpa Tudu does not want her real name to be published - a wish that tells the human story behind the stand-off between the Bengal government and the state election commission. Early last week, Pushpa Tudu (name changed), a probable CPM gram panchayat candidate, was addressing a small...
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