People throng Jyoti Basu’s home on 96th birthday

August 3rd, 2009 KOLKATA - Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) patriarch Jyoti Basu was extremely shocked at the news of the death of West Bengal Transport Minister Subhas Chakraborty here Monday. According to Basu's personal assistant Joy Krishna Ghosh, the nonagenarian leader while expressing sorrow, said: "It is my time to go.

July 19th, 2009 KOLKATA - Communist Party of India (Marxist) patriarch and former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu on Sunday was discharged from hospital following improvement in his condition. The 96 year-old was admitted to the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU) of AMRI hospital, where a panel of doctors had been attending to him for breathing problem and old age related complications.

July 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - The condition of former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu, under treatment at a private hospital here, is stable and he may be released Monday, a hospital official said here Saturday. "The medical review has disclosed that the patient slept normally last night and had adequate food.

July 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - The condition of former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu, under treatment at a private hospital here, is stable, his personal assistant Joykrishna Ghosh said Saturday. However, no date has been set for his release from the hospital.

July 15th, 2009 KOLKATA - Former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu, under treatment at a private hospital here, was recovering well but will be kept under observation for the next three-four days, a hospital official said Wednesday. The 96-year-old patriarch of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), who was admitted to the hospital following gastro-intestinal complications and transient loss of consciousness Sunday, was shifted out of the intensive cardiac care unit (ICCU) to a room Tuesday as his condition improved.

July 13th, 2009 KOLKATA - Veteran Marxist leader and former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu, who was admitted to hospital here after he fell unconscious Sunday, is stable and making satisfactory progress, hospital authorities said. He is to undergo a CT scan of the brain.

July 12th, 2009 KOLKATA - Marxist patriarch and former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu was admitted to a private hospital Sunday following breathing trouble, hospital sources said. Basu, who turned 96 on July 8, was taken in an ambulance to the AMRI hospital near his Salt Lake residence of Indira Bhavan after he spent a restless night.

July 12th, 2009 KOLKATA - 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. Basu turned 96, on July 8, and many followers greeted him at his residence Indira Bhavan on that day.

July 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - By his own admission, Communists don't celebrate their birthdays. But ailing former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu was overwhelmed by the huge number of people who turned up to wish him on his 96th birthday Wednesday.

May 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - 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 secretariat, Writers' Buildings in the morning and came out of it in the evening only, and left for Basu's house in the satellite Salt Lake township.

May 13th, 2009 KOLKATA - Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Wednesday claimed that 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.

March 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Most birthdays are happy occasions. But one can't be too sure in Uttar Pradesh, especially if it's the birthday of Chief Minister Mayawati, says Rashtriya Lok Dal's chief Ajit Singh.

March 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - CPM veteran Jyoti Basu Jyoti Basu has said that it would be tough for the 'Third Front' to win the general polls and form a government. "It will be tough for the 'Third Front' to form the Central Government, as far as my knowledge is concerned," said Basu.

March 17th, 2009 KOLKATA - 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 Tuesday. 'We need the Third Front to come to power at the centre immediately.

February 7th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal's ruling Left Front Sunday blamed 'vested interests' for rumours that Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Jyoti Basu was seriously ill and said he was 'fine'. 'Basu is fine.