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 ...

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It is unquestionable that Comrade Basu was the Gorbachev of India. He united rural Bengal to the cause of socialism. He was a statesman amongst politicians and a democrat amongst Communists. He had ...

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 ...

Marxist patriarch and former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu, who was battling for life in a hospital in Kolkata for the last fortnight, died on Sunday. ‘ I have to give you a sad news that ...

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, India, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Jyoti Basu, the patriarch of Indian communism whose pragmatic politics twice brought him close to becoming prime minister, died on Sunday. He was 95. Basu's death is ...

At 11.30am on Wednesday 6th January 2010, a medical bulletin from a private hospital in Salt Lake, Kolkata announced that Mr. Jyoti Basu, a 95 year old Marxist leader and former Chief Minister of West ...

Having been sworn in as the Bihar Chief Minister for the 10th time, Nitish Kumar is expected to surpass Jyoti Basu's tenure, who remained West Bengal's CM for 23 years, provided all goes well in the ...

NDA's sweeping win in the Bihar Assembly elections have paved the way for another chapter of Nitish Kumar as the state's CM — extending the tenure of one of India’s longest-serving leaders. Kumar, who ...

Calcutta, Dec. 25: The Forward Bloc today singled out Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and also blamed his party for the cycle of violence in Nandigram. A day after Jyoti Basu hauled it up for holding a rally ...

Few years in India's political history have carried the weight of 1996. It was the year when two movements born in 1925 - the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) - ...