West Bengal

Kolkata: Politics is set to take centrestage as all parties go on overdrive to celebrate Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s 125th birth anniversary. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who termed...

Kolkata: The ‘exodus’ from the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) continues, with West Bengal Forest Minister Rajib Banerjee resigning from Mamata Banerjee’s cabinet on Friday. The chief minister will herself look...

Kolkata: On the second day of their West Bengal visit, the full bench of Election Commission of India (ECI) held meetings with leaders of all political parties. During his talks...

Kolkata: Abbas Siddiqui, a Muslim cleric of Furfura Sharif in West Bengal, on Thursday launched a political outfit called the Indian Secular Front. Slamming chief minister Mamata Banerjee, the 34-year-old...

Kolkata: The political temperature in election-bound West Bengal kept soaring as the major parties pointed at each other for chanting ‘violent’ slogans at their rallies. After the opposition slammed the...

Kolkata: The full bench of the Central Election Commission (CEC), headed by chief election commissioner Sunil Arora, arrived in the West Bengal capital on Wednesday. The CEC members held a...

Kolkata: Amidst anti-Suvendu Adhikari chants by alleged Trinamool Congress (TMC) cadres, stones were pelted and vehicles damaged at the BJP leader’s rally in Tollygunge area of south Kolkata, which is...

Kolkata: The Left Front-Congress alliance is already in place for the upcoming assembly polls in West Bengal, but there is no agreement yet on seat sharing. There was another closed-door...

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee declared on Monday that she would contest the upcoming assembly polls from Nandigram constituency. Making the announcement from a public meeting at Nandigram,...

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress MP Satabdi Roy was on Sunday named vice-president of the party. It’s a significant development, given that the former actress had hinted at defecting to BJP a...