In 1983, the Left Front government in West Bengal under Jyoti Basu banned the teaching of English till Class 6, and justified it by citing a recommendation of the Himangshu Bimal Mazumdar Commission.
Basu was the consensus leader of the United Front after Vajpayee’s short-lived 13-day govt, but the CPI(M) did not participate—he called it a 'historic blunder'.
Not much is known about the Marichjhapi massacre that took place under the Jyoti Basu government on a tiny island in the Sundarbans where Hindu refugees had settled.
As general secretary of CPI(M), Sitaram Yechury was expected to steer the party in a fresh direction and help it reinvent itself. But he has proved to be as much a failure as his dogmatic predecessor Prakash Karat.
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As social media debated whether audiences were consuming Pujarini Pradhan as a symbol, The Juggernaut turned her into a story that could circulate globally, with or without her participation.
Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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