In May last year, Jyoti Basu, West Bengal's chief minister and one of the most respected politicians in this country, was on the verge of becoming India's first Communist prime minister.

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Kolkata: Former state minister Abdur Rezzak Molla passed away at his ancestral home in Bhangar on Friday morning. He was 81.

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Dhaka, Mar 24 : Bangladesh honoured late Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora, the late CPI-M leader Jyoti Basu and other distinguished foreign nationals for their support and active role in the country ...

Communist patriarch and former chief minister Jyoti Basu used to stay at this hotel through the 1980s and 1990s during his two-week summer trips to London, which he would keep largely free of official ...