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...the blind can be provided vision. January 6th, 2010 KOLKATA - Veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Jyoti Basu, hospitalised with a pneumonia attack, was in critical condition Wednesday, a medical bulletin said. "Basu is critical. December...
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...with great shock and deep anguish the unfortunate passing away of veteran leader and former chief minister of West Bengal Jyoti Basu. January 13th, 2010 NEW DELHI - The Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor is on a visit to the Southern African...
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Jyoti Basu, hailed as the pioneer of the Leftist movement in India, was born to middle-class Bengali family in Calcutta on Jul 8, 1914.
After graduating from Presidency College with an honours degree, Basu migrated to the United Kingdom to study law,
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...Jyoti Basu was born on July 8, 1914. * He was Educated at St Xavier's School and College and graduated from Presidency College in Kolkata in 1935 and studied law at Middle Temple, London. * He was a member of the CPI(M) Politburo from the time of the party's...
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...Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Jyoti Basu, who was hospitalised with a pneumonia attack, was stable Saturday and responding well to treatment, a hospital official said. The 96-year-old former West Bengal chief minister was shifted to the Intensive Cardiac...
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Official said that the condition of 95-year CPI-M leader is stable.
Prime minister Manmohan Singh reportedly called up at chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s office at Writers’ Buildings around 6.30 pm for an update on Basu's health.
The veteran
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Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu has been admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital here with slight pneumonia infection and doctors attending on him said his condition was stable.
The 95-year-old leader has been kept under observation, the
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Nonagenarian Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader and former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu was Friday admitted to a private hospital following a severe chest infection.
"He has a chest infection. There is congestion in the chest,"
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He was a man revered for his public image — almost as spotless as his white dhoti-kurta — for his first six years as successor to Jyoti Basu as chief minister of West Bengal. Then Nandigram happened in 2007. Since then, he has been pilloried as a
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Veteran CPM leader Jyoti Basu on Monday accused opposition parties in West Bengal and Maoists of stalling development in the state and asked partymen to win back people's support after the party's debacle in the Lok Sabha polls.
The Trinamool, Congress
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Indian Express
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KOLKATA:
After spending eight days in hospital, CPM patriarch Jyoti Basu went home on
Sunday with a list of dos and don'ts. The medical board at the Salt Lake
hospital, where Basu was admitted after a bout of transient loss of
consciousness, held a
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Times of India
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Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) patriarch and former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu is stable but would remain under 24-hour medical observation at his Salt Lake Kolkata residence, an aide said Sunday.
Basu is expected to be discharged
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KOLKATA: Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu, who was admitted to a private hospital here on July 12 after he fell unconscious for a while at his residence, is doing well and was moved out of the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit on Tuesday morning.
The
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Twenty-five year old Madhabi Biswas, a temporary nurse at the AMRI hospital, was with Jyoti Basu at his Indira Bhavan residence on Sunday morning when the veteran leader lost consciousness.
Madhabi immediately informed his doctor A.K. Maity and
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Calcutta, July 13: The condition of CPM veteran Jyoti Basu has improved and he would be shifted out of the ICCU to a general cabin tomorrow, doctors said today.
His condition has improved considerably and all parameters are stable. Although his
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Calcutta Telegraph
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KOLKATA: Veteran leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu was admitted to a city hospital here on Sunday after he lost consciousness for a while at his Salt Lake residence.
The hospital
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The Hindu
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KOLKATA:
CPM patriarch Jyoti Basu was wheeled into AMRI Hospitals, Salt Lake, after he
fell unconscious at his residence on Sunday morning. By evening Basu’s
condition was stable, though he is still in a special cabin inside the intensive
coronary
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Times of India
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Kolkata, July 12 (ANI): Senior Marxist leader and former Chief Minister of West Bengal Jyoti Basu was admitted to AMRI Hospital in Salt Lake following a breathing trouble this morning.
According to Basu's son Chandan Basu, the former Chief Minister was
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His advice to CPI(M) : take corrective steps to win back people’s trust
He has never been one to despair, says a close friend
KOLKATA: The body might have become frail. But the spirit has not. The doyen of Left politics Jyoti Basu was almost
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Kolkata: Even with the Left fading out in West Bengal, nonagenarian Marxist and former chief minister Jyoti Basu continues to enjoy universal appeal irrespective of political party. It was more than apparent on Wednesday as people cutting across party
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Addresses gathering at sombre yet spirited birthday event at his home
KOLKATA: “To those well-wishers of West Bengal who want development and prosperity for the State, I’m with you,” veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu, 95, said here on the occasion of
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West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi Tuesday greeted Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) patriarch and former chief minister Jyoti Basu, ahead of his 96th birthday Wednesday.
'It's been a pleasure and privilege to greet a leader like Jyoti
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...Minister Mamata Banerjee called on ailing former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu Saturday night and said the veteran Marxist had congratulated her on her party's thumping win in the Lok Sabha polls. However, Banerjee emerged from the meeting a trifle...
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...KOLKATA: Railway minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday met ailing CPI-M patriarch Jyoti Basu at his Salt Lake residence and wished him good health. Banerjee, accompanied by Union minister or State for Shipping Mukul Roy and Leader of the Opposition Partha Chatterjee,...
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Kolkata: Keeping a studied silence after media reports spoke of his offer to step down in the wake of the Left Front's poll debacle, West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee met CPI-M patriarch Jyoti Basu at his residence here on Monday
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Amid speculation about his offering to resign, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Monday met Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) patriarch Jyoti Basu but refused to speak to the media.
The chief minister went to the state
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The Rediff Interview/Legendary thinker Ashok Mitra
'If Mayawati wins 40 seats, the politics of the country will turn turtle'
May 14, 2009
A former finance minister in the Jyoti Basu-led
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Kolkata: CPI(M) patriarch Jyoti Basu, whose advanced age forced him for the first time to stay away from casting his vote, made enquiries about the Third Front from Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat who was in the city to cast her vote.
The nonagenarian
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veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu did not vote in the Lok Sabha elections because he had lost confidence in his successor Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's government.
'Even Jyoti Basu does not have confidence in Buddhababu. Otherwise he would have definitely
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KOLKATA: Communist Party of
India-Marxist (CPI-M) patriarch Jyoti Basu fell at his residence Wednesday
morning, his personal aide said.
"Basu fell while going to the
washroom early this morning. He received a minor injury in his left leg. He's
now
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KOLKATA: It may not be possible for veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu to exercise his franchise in the Lok Sabha polls on May 13 because of reasons of health.
“He himself is saying that he might not be in a position to do so,” Mr. Basu’s aide,
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The infallible icon of Marxism, Jyoti Basu, who has been keeping a failing health for quite a long time, is unlikely to exercise his franchise in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections even as his party gears itself up to instal a Third Front government at
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Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) West Bengal's ruling Left Front (LF) patriarch Jyoti Basu is unlikely to cast his vote in this Lok Sabha election because of frail health.
'Perhaps this time, Basu will not be able to exercise his franchise in the general
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Indrani Mitra Roy in Kolkata |
May 11, 2009 18:24 IST
Just when Bengal's red bastion seemed rattled by the so-called winds of political change came the news that Jyoti Basu may not cast
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...which generally avoids eulogising personalities, has posted Basu's picture on the masthead of its election site. "Jyoti Basu is the only member of our first politburo of 1964 who is still alive. He has been hailed as the living legend of the party. So, there's...
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The former West Bengal chief minister outperforms his younger Left colleagues in cyberspace.
Jyoti Basu’s frail health does not permit him to take part in raucous rallies and public meetings. Yet, of all his Communist colleagues, this spare
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It will be very difficult for the Third Front to come to power in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, though it is the only alternate solution for the country's development, veteran Communist leader Jyoti Basu said on Tuesday.
"We need the Third Front to
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The saying 'old is gold' is proving to be crucial for the political parties as they prepare for the upcoming general elections. As they go into election mode, the parties discover they need their veterans.
In Kolkata, Left Front workers were urged to
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We cannot say [anything] now, says Basu
Alliance between Opposition parties might affect Left
KOLKATA: The Left has yet to decide on whether or not to support the Congress in the event of the coming Lok Sabha elections throwing up a hung Parliament,
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Kolkata: Even at 94, with movement restricted on medical advice, nonagenarian Jyoti Basu continues to be the last word in crisis management for his party, the CPI(M). In fact, the party is all set to make all-round use of Basu to reap electoral
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Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, former West Bengal chief minister and Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu Saturday said politicians and people should work together for a 'better and more responsible government' at the centre.
'It's high time politicians and
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Somnath Chatterjee addresses the fair as Joykrishna Ghosh, the confidential assistant of Jyoti Basu, and minister Pratim Chatterjee (left) look on. Telegraph picture
Calcutta, Jan. 16: Prakash Karat may have no room for Somnath Chatterjee but
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WITH ITS decision to snap ties with the Congress led UPA, the Left by and large has played into the hands of the BJP and its allies. This will not be the first time that 'red' has played into the hands of 'saffron'. About 20 years ago it made the first
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...places of West Bengal, and will be released both in English and Bengali. Kolkata, Dec 26 : The journey of veteran CPI(M) leader Jyoti Basu to becoming the longest serving Chief Minister of the country and the early influences in his life might soon be portrayed...
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...visit to the city, the organisers have arranged for a tete-a-tete between the legendary footballer and Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu Sunday, a parliamentarian said here on Thursday. "Maradona will pay a courtesy visit to Basu," Comunist Party of India (CPI-M)...
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Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today expressed grief over the passing away of former prime minister V P Singh.
In a message, Mr Basu said the death of late Prime Minister was a great loss to
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Kolkata: Members of the central committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), who are here to attend the three-day meet of the body, took time off on the second day of deliberations and visited veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu at his Salt Lake res...
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Former West Bengal Chief Minister and CPI(M) patriarch Jyoti Basu today regretted that none of the Directive Principles of the Constitution could be implemented in view of the bias towards the rich in the socio-economic system that prevails in the
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KOLKATA: The former Prime Minister and president of the Janata Dal (Secular), H.D. Deve Gowda, called on veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu at his Salt Lake residence on Wednesday. At a press conference later, Mr. Gowda said the attacks on Christians in Ka...
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Former Prime Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) president H D Deve Gowda will visit Kolkata tomorrow to call on ailing Marxist patriarch and former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu.
JD (S) general secretary K Danish Ali today said he would
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