| The Trinamul government's embargo on leave on February 28, the day of a CPM bandh, has prompted employees affiliated to unions backed by the Left Front and the Congress to plan a demonstration at Writers' on Friday to exercise their right to protest. ... |
| Burdwan, Feb. 22: A former CPM legislator was axed and bludgeoned to death in Burdwan this morning by alleged Trinamul Congress supporters in one of the most gruesome political murders in the state where battlelines have been drawn over the February ... |
| The leading industry bodies of the state strongly criticised the strike called by Left trade unions on February 28, saying it would send the wrong signal to investors. ... |
| Burdwan, Feb. 22: A former CPM legislator was axed and bludgeoned to death in Burdwan this morning by alleged Trinamul Congress supporters in one of the most gruesome political murders in the state where battlelines have been drawn over the February ... |
| Calcutta, Feb. 22: The Mamata Banerjee government had granted up to six days of special casual leave to 1,000-odd elected delegates of a Trinamul-backed employees' union less than two months ago, according to the copy of an order with The Telegraph. ... |
| Calcutta, Feb. 22: The Trinamul Congress today claimed that the two Burdwan CPM leaders fell prey to "people's anger (janarosh)" after they tried to "recapture" territory and that the ruling party was "not involved" in their murders. ... |
| Calcutta, Feb. 22: The Mamata Banerjee government today issued an order stating that no government employee would be granted leave on February 28, picking up the gauntlet thrown by the CPM that has vowed to make a general strike that day a "success". ... |
| The CPM has handed rival Trinamul an opportunity to clamber back from an image crisis by converting the industrial strike called by several trade unions on February 28 into a full-fledged Bengal bandh. ... |
| Calcutta, Feb. 22: The Mamata Banerjee government today issued an order stating that no government employee would be granted leave on February 28, picking up the gauntlet thrown by the CPM that has vowed to make a general strike that day a "success". ... |
| Bunking work won’t be easy for state government employees next Tuesday — February 28 — when Left trade unions go on a nation-wide strike. ... |