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 ...

along with West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Left Front Committee chairman Biman Bose at the party office where Jyoti Basu had come as recently as in 2009. The body was ...

Jyoti Basu had entered the Assembly for the first time as an elected legislator 65 years ago. Informed sources in the Kolkata Police said ... last respects as West Bengal started a two-day state ...

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 ...