Tension ran high in Kolkata’s eastern fringes of Tiljala area as a poster of deceased Marxist icon Jyoti Basu was found torched Thursday.
“A poster of Jyoti Basu was seen torched this morning at Tiljala’s C.N Roy Road. We highly condemn this incident,” senior Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader and the party’s central committee member [...]
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Basu’s poster seen torched in Kolkata
January 21st, 2010 |
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Buddha, Somnath too have pledged to donate body
January 20th, 2010 |
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Like Marxist icon Jyoti Basu, more than 700,000 people in West Bengal, including Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee, have pledged to donate their body for medical science, says an NGO.
Over 1,400 people have already donated their body across the state since 1986, said Braja Roy, general secretary of Ganadarpan, [...]
Nimhans wants Jyoti Basu’s ‘agile’ brain
January 20th, 2010 |
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The National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences(Nimhans), Bangalore, Wednesday said they would like to study the brain of late Marxist leader Jyoti Basu as he was “very agile” even in his last days.
“Jyoti Basu was 95 when he passed away, yet until the last moment he was very agile. Therefore we would like to [...]
Donating body, eyes gets Basu more admirers
January 19th, 2010 |
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Jyoti Basu’s pledge to donate his body and eyes has drawn all-round praise with medicos and commoners saying the noble deed will motivate others to tread the same path and help in medical treatment and research.
“It is really his greatness that he has donated his eyes so that the blind can be provided vision. His [...]
Near-stampede as thousands come for last glimpse of Basu
January 19th, 2010 |
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Thousands thronged the state assembly building here Tuesday for a last glimpse of Communist icon Jyoti Basu and flung floral garlands and wreaths at the body to pay their tribute. Some elderly people, women and children fainted due to the near-stampede conditions, police said.
While dignitaries were allowed to go near the body of Basu to [...]
Tripura resident dies, shocked by Jyoti Basu’s death
January 19th, 2010 |
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A 45-year-old activist of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) died of shock in Tripura after hearing the news of patriarch Jyoti Basu’s death, his family said Tuesday.
“After the death of the veteran communist leader, Nandan Chakraborty suffered a massive heart attack Sunday. He was admitted to Udaipur district hospital where he died late Monday,” [...]
Sheikh Hasina, Sonia Gandhi pay tributes to Basu
January 19th, 2010 |
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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, former president H.M. Ershad and many political leaders from that country and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi were among the dignitaries who paid their last respects to Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu on his last journey here Tuesday.
Escorted by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Hasina came along with [...]
Government employees salute Jyoti Basu
January 19th, 2010 |
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West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee paid his last respects to his predecessor and party comrade Jyoti Basu at the state secretariat Writers’ Buildings, as thousands of government employees and office-goers gathered to see the mass leader for the last time Tuesday.
Basu, who was chief minister for 23 years since 1977 — the longest stint [...]
Jyoti Basu’s last journey begins
January 19th, 2010 |
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Amidst shouts of ‘Comrade Jyoti Basu lal salaam’, the body of the Marxist veteran, draped in red flag, was taken out of the funeral parlour Peace Haven Tuesday morning.
The last journey of the former West Bengal chief minister began at 7.30 a.m. as the hearse, fitted with transparent fibre glass for people to have a [...]
Catholic Church to offer special prayers for Jyoti Basu
January 18th, 2010 |
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Condoling the death of former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu, the Catholic church Monday said special prayers will be offered for the repose of his soul.
Auxiliary Bishop of Delhi archdiocese, Franco Mulakkal said: “His love and concern for the poor as well as his call for justice and equality to all and sundry, which [...]
Sheikh Hasina, Sonia Gandhi to attend Basu’s last journey
January 18th, 2010 |
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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi will be among a host of dignitaries scheduled to arrive here Tuesday to pay their last respects to Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu.
Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will represent the central government, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) West Bengal state secretary Biman Bose [...]
Jyoti Basu neglected industry initially: Economists
January 18th, 2010 |
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For the bulk of the 23 years as West Bengal chief minister, Jyoti Basu led the state to great achievements in agriculture, even as militant trade unionism and the politics of shutdowns led to a flight of capital and rising unemployment, say economists.
It was only in its later years that the Basu government realised the [...]
Basu was a great patriot, Manmohan tells comrades
January 18th, 2010 |
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday visited the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) headquarters here to condole the death of Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu, saying the country has “lost a great statesman and patriot”.
The prime minister reached the A.K. Gopalan Bhavan in the heart of the city at 11.10 a.m. It was a building that Basu [...]
A pillar has fallen, says Amitabh of Basu’s death
January 18th, 2010 |
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Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who had visited Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu in a Kolkata hospital a day before his death, Monday said “a huge pillar” in the political firmament has fallen.
“Jyoti Basu has just passed away!… Deeply grieved and send our prayers and condolences. A huge pillar in the Indian political firmament has fallen. The [...]
Quiet West Bengal mourns Jyoti Basu
January 18th, 2010 |
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The tricolour flew at half mast, state government offices and almost all private establishments remained closed and roads were deserted as a quiet fell over West Bengal Monday, a day after the death of the Communist patriarch Jyoti Basu.
There was a motley crowd before central Kolkata’s Peace Haven, the funeral parlour where Basu’s body is [...]
Ansari, Manmohan visit CPI-M office
January 18th, 2010 |
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Vice President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday paid homage to Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Jyoti Basu by visiting the party headquarters here.
Ansari reached the A.K. Gopalan Bhavan, in the heart of the city, at 10.45 a.m., followed by the prime minister at 11.10 a.m.
A framed photograph of Basu, who died [...]
India’s veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu dies
January 17th, 2010 |
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Jyoti Basu, the charismatic Indian Marxist who headed the world’s most electorally successful communist party for two decades, died on Sunday at the age of 95. Basu, who was the longest serving chief minister in Indian political history, led the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) to
PM wishes Jyoti Basu speedy recovery
January 16th, 2010 |
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday wished critically ill Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu a speedy recovery.
“Our thoughts and all our prayers are with him. And I wish him a speedy recovery,” the prime minister said while addressing the 150th anniversary celebrations of St. Xavier’s Collegiate School here.
Basu, hospitalised since Jan 1, is very critical after suffering [...]
Jyoti Basu remains ‘very, very’ critical
January 16th, 2010 |
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Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu’s condition continued to be “very, very critical” Saturday after he suffered multi-organ failure. His blood pressure had dropped during the night, but was controlled with medicines, doctors attending on him said.
“The level of carbon dioxide also increased in Basu’s body and it was later stabilised with the help of medicine. [...]
Jyoti Basu showing signs of multi-organ failure: doctor
January 15th, 2010 |
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Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu is “showing signs of multi-organ failure”, a doctor attending on him said Friday.
Attending doctor Susrut Bannerjee said the 95-year-old Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader’s condition was deteriorating and he was “showing signs of multi-organ failure”.
Basu, who was chief minister of West Bengal for 23 years, has been in AMRI Hospital [...]