Former West Bengal chief minister and a front-ranking Marxist leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was a pragmatic communist who kept aside his ideological convictions to woo capital for the ...

KOLKATA: Once office work concluded in the evening, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee would spend a couple of hours at Nandan. That was the time when he would devote to translating Russian poet Vladimir ...

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was born in north Kolkata on March 1, 1944, into a family with an academic heritage. His grandfather, Krishnachandra Smrititirtha was a Sanskrit scholar who wrote a ...

Protests, political turmoil, and social issues in West Bengal in 2024, including rape case fallout and electoral outcomes.

Kolkata: The mortal remains of former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will be kept at the CPI(M) state headquarters here for leaders and members of the public to pay their last ...

Indian National Lok Dal president and former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala died in Gurugram on Dec. 20 at 89.

Stalwarts we lost in 2024 like Manmohan Singh, Zakir Hussain, Ratan Tata, Ameen Sayani, Shyam Benegal, and more.

Noted personalities who passed away in 2024 include former foreign ministers K. Natwar Singh and S.M. Krishna, former West ...

The fields of politics, business, law, and economics lost stalwarts such as Communist leaders Sitaram Yechury and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, businessman-philanthropist Ratan Tata, legal barons Fali ...

India lost luminaries like Zakir Hussain and Manmohan Singh. The year saw significant contributions from fields like politics ...