A stampede broke out at the assembly premises here as thousands of mourners broke the barricades to have a last glimpse of Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu, however no one was injured, police said.

I grew up in Calcutta - the beleaguered capital of India's eastern state of West Bengal and former capital of the British empire - when Jyoti Basu ruled ... to a senior police officer in Bengal ...

A statue of former West Bengal ... Jyoti Basu was found vandalised in Howrah district. Locals in Salkia noticed this on Wednesday morning and as the news spread local CPI(M) leaders lodged a ...

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the last Marxist chief minister of Bengal who succeeded Jyoti ... joined Basu's government. "He was a father-like figure for me and he helped me learn many things. In the ...

NEW DELHI Jyoti Basu, a powerful leftist leader who dominated politics in the state of West Bengal for more than two decades and nearly became India’s first Communist prime minister ...