Jyoti Basu's death has moved the nation because he had the greatest political quality that's now fast diminishing. Giving him glorious tributes on Sunday, even his political opponents acknowledge ...

Image: File photo shows the former West Bengal chief minister saluting on independence day Photographs: Jayanta Shaw/Reuters BS Raghavan With the passing of Jyoti Basu, the curtain falls on an era ...

Jyoti Basu, the reputed elder statesman of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)—India’s principal Stalinist parliamentary party—and for 23 years the Chief Minister of the east Indian state ...

One of the icons of the city was Jyoti Basu, India's longest-serving and best-known Communist. He died Sunday at age 95. Political leaders from across India gathered in the city of Calcutta today ...

INDIA is to be without Jyoti Basu. The new reality will not sink easily into most minds. For most of the past half-a-century, the man had filled a crucial spot in the country's political landscape.

Jyoti Basu, an icon of Indian socialism, died in Kolkata. He was 95. With him, an important era of South Asian politics passed too. Even though Basu belonged to the Communist Party of India that ...

Editor, Opinion, The Economic Times. Just that unbroken stint of 23 years as chief minister of West Bengal, winning the people’s endorsement five times in that process, would have made Jyoti ...

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 ...

West Bengal's Jyoti Basu, head of the world's longest-serving popularly elected communist government, will step down next week, ending a 23-year rule that saw Calcutta toppled as India's ...

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Jyoti Basu, 95, a veteran communist leader who in 1996 came close to becoming India’s prime minister, died Sunday in Calcutta of multiple organ failure, a party spokesman said. Basu became chief ...