Politics

Kolkata: Former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha joined the Trinamool Congress on Saturday, just ahead of the West Bengal Assembly election from this month. The 83-year-old Sinha had quit BJP in...

Kolkata: Nimai Maiti’s sweet shop at Berulia Bazar in Nandigram has become a national talking point after Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee suffered fractures in an alleged attack near the...

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee hopes to be back in the field within 2 to 3 days, albeit on a wheelchair. Mamata, who was injured after being allegedly...

Bhubaneswar/Kolkata: A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was injured in a melee in Nandigram and taken to a hospital, her Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik on Thursday expressed...

Kolkata: Ten years after Trinamool Congress (TMC) was voted to power, marking the end of a 34-year Left Front regime in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee is back to the ‘roots’...

Kolkata: The political slugfest on social media is, at times, more interesting than the rallies and public meetings. Union Minister of state for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Babul Supriyo...

Chennai: Recently, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb revealed that Amit Shah wants to establish BJP governments in Nepal and Sri Lanka. A message followed that the BJP has launched a...

Kolkata: In another major setback ahead of the West Bengal Assembly polls from this month, five MLAs of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and a party candidate have defected to...

Kolkata: Three weeks before the eight-phase assembly polls kick off in West Bengal, the state saw two blockbuster events on Super Sunday. BJP’s commander-in-chief Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed at...

Siliguri: As Narendra Modi held fort for over an hour at Kolkata’s famous Brigade Parade ground on a hot Sunday afternoon, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took to the...