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‘Mamata government sacrificed us to save Trinamool Congress’

KOLKATA: Days after the Supreme Court Division Bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjeev Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar ruled that 25,753 teaching and...

Ram Navami may see a DidI vs BJP showdown in Bengal

Police said Ram Navami rallies can’t pass near mosques or Muslim-majority areas. KOLKATA: A tussle has broken out between the Mamata Banerjee government and the...

Competitive communalism in Bengal sparks violence 

Videos showing a mob vandalising public property went viral, with social media claims alleging that a Muslim group targeted Hindu-owned businesses. KOLKATA: As the 2026...

Home truths spoil Mamata’s UK sojourn

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee embarked on a six-day official visit to London from 22 March to 28 March, ostensibly aimed at...

Mamata gives in to sectarian demands, will sacrifice Hindu MLAs in 2026 polls

KOLKATA: The increasing traction of the BJP’s polarisation strategy on Hindus for the 2026 Assembly polls in West Bengal has triggered a reaction among...

AIMIM hopes to upset Mamata’s apple cart

AIMIM plans to contest all 294 West Bengal Assembly seats in the 2026 elections, seeking Muslims’ support. KOLKATA: After anti-incumbency and corruption charges, Trinamool Congress...

Trinamool faces students’ ire following university fracas

An injured first-year student Indranuj Roy lying in front of a minister’s SUV bearing down on the student is going viral. KOLKATA: A demand to...

BJP eyes Mamata seat, alleges CPM out to divide Hindu voters

Kolkata: Aiming to cause a massive upset in the 2026 Assembly elections in West Bengal, the Bharatiya Janata Party has decided to beard the...

Internal security concerns trigger NSA Ajit Doval’s air-dash to Bengal

The state has previously been identified as ISI’s route to India from Bangladesh on multiple occasions.   Kolkata: Enhanced threat perception and the growth in subversive...

Delhi victory kindles BJP’s hopes in Bengal

BJP aims to repeat its stellar performance in the West Bengal Assembly elections in 2026. Kolkata: News of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s overwhelming victory and...

Bengal’s law & order suffers as TMC turns on itself

Kolkata: It was just the second day of the New Year and Dulal Sarkar, 61, popularly known as Babla, had stepped out of his...

BSF fights multiple challenges in securing India-Bangla border

Kolkata: The Border Security Force, tasked with securing India’s borders with neighbouring Bangladesh, is fighting on multiple fronts to fulfil its mandate. Its task...

Agencies get flak as Trinamool leaders get bail in graft cases

The tide began turning from the second half of 2024, when leader after leader started getting bail. Kolkata: If 2022 and 2023 were the worst...

R.G. Kar victim’s parents vow to keep fighting for justice

The accused claimed he was being ‘falsely implicated’ and that an IPS officer was involved in the incident. KOLKATA: Exactly 162 days after the heinous...

Hindu organisations in Bengal become active as atrocities increase in Bangladesh

KOLKATA: The rise in reports of atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh following the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina government has sparked protests in India...

With eye on 2026 Assembly elections, Mamata starts insulating herself

Mamata criticised the BSF, ministers, and officials, demanding stricter vigilance and efficiency. KOLKATA: With the dawn of the New Year, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata...

Detection of terror modules in Bengal triggers BJP-TMC spat

The arrest of 10 suspected terrorists across West Bengal in the past two weeks has triggered a major war of words between the ruling...

Amid Bangla tension, TMC woos both Hindus and Muslims

KOLKATA: As multiple videos of atrocities on Hindus by the Muslim majority in Bangladesh go viral on this side of the border, the Trinamool...

Mamata woos Hindu voters with Puri Jagannath temple replica

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced that the Jagannath Temple in Digha will be inaugurated on April 30, 2025 (Akshaya Tritiya). KOLKATA: A political...

Mamata Banerjee is not uttering the H-word to avoid offending vote bank: Critics

‘You will not be able to show a single instance when Mamata has uttered the word Hindu,’ says Kartik Maharaj on Mamata Banerjee’s reaction...

Mamata cracks whip on Abhishek’s cheerleaders

Kolkata: Last week, the Trinamool Congress steamrolled its way to a spectacular win in all six Assembly by-elections, which were necessitated due to the...

Trinamool Congress sweeps Bengal byelections

Byelections in six seats saw TMC retain five and win BJP’s stronghold Madarihat, vacated after MLAs’ Lok Sabha victories. Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress (TMC), led...

Bengal tab grant for students lands up in mule accounts

Students in Classes 11 and 12 in government schools discovered that a promised grant of Rs 10,000 for buying tablets and smartphones has made...

Mamata’s Awas Yojana gambit opens a can of worms

In hundreds of villages across Bengal, protests have erupted over allegations of exclusion of names of beneficiaries in Banglar Awas Yojana. Kolkata: More than a...

TMC throws dirt, tries to divide junior doctors to regain ground lost in agitation

Kolkata: West Bengal’s ruling party, the Trinamool Congress (TMC), led by Mamata Banerjee, has launched a desperate effort to regain the ground it lost...

Meet with junior doctors a disaster for Mamata

Mamata Banerjee’s meeting with junior doctors highlighted tensions and her unpredictable approach to corruption issues. Kolkata: Monday’s meeting between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee...

Mamata administration’s targeting of YouTubers backfires

Kolkata: ‘Almost every YouTuber, who has been critical of the Mamata Banerjee government, has been slapped with police cases on frivolous and trumped up...

Mamata administration mulls ways to tackle protests during Durga Puja

Kolkata: For the past 40 years, Durga Puja pandals across the city of Kolkata had utilised the platform to highlight cultural heritage, art, and...

Mamata seeks to quash dissent during Durga Puja

Kolkata: The Mamata Banerjee government, fearing protests, is pulling out all stops to quash dissent in the run-up to and during West Bengal’s biggest...

Mamata uses floods to divert attention from her governance of State

KOLKATA: With the widespread allegations of irregularities and corruption at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital that have come to light following the rape...

Mamata fights credibility crisis as Bengal continues to seethe

KOLKATA: Observers say that Mamata Banerjee, for the first time in her career, is facing an opponent whom she cannot vilify or blame politically. In...

Protests in 130 cities ahead of Supreme Court’s RG Kar hearing

KOLKATA: People from the UK, US, Ireland, Australia, Japan, and 22 other countries are joining the first global human chain against the brutal rape-murder...

Mamata’s ‘hiss’ advice spurs TMC leaders to bare fangs

KOLKATA: Amid the ongoing protests that have rocked West Bengal following the rape and murder of a 31-year-old junior doctor at the state-run RG...

As protests rage, RG Kar case may become Mamata’s hour of reckoning

KOLKATA: The mishandling of the RG Kar rape and murder case has become a flashpoint for broader dissatisfaction with the Mamata Banerjee government. Like an avalanche...

Kolkata rape-murder lays bare ‘medical education racket’

KOLKATA: The role of Dr Sandip Ghosh, the principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, has come under scrutiny. The recent rape and murder of...

Mamata’s hold on art-culture scene leaves bengal gasping

KOLKATA: Emphasis on showcasing Trinamool’s achievements has overshadowed artistic and cultural essence of festivals. Shooting at the iconic Tollygunge studios in Kolkata, popularly known as Tollywood,...

Political Row Over Proposal To ‘Bifurcate’ Bengal

KOLKATA: The demand for a separate state or union territory status for north Bengal is because of neglect by Kolkata. On Wednesday, Sukanta Majumdar, the...

Bengal BJP Leaders floundering after Successive Defeats

KOLKATA: BJP insiders blame the lack of cohesion, bad blood and even infighting and sabotage for the repeated failures of the party in Bengal. Despite...

Bengal BJP in disarray as TMC wins all four Bypolls

KOLKATA: The BJP came a distant second, while Left-Congress alliance lost its deposit in three of the four seats. As Kalyan Choubey, BJP candidate for...

Sordid videos expose rampant criminality of TMC musclemen

KOLKATA: A stream of videos going viral in West Bengal is exposing the sordid underbelly of violence that accompanies the Trinamool Congress’ electoral success...

Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose finds himself in a tight corner

KOLKATA: When C.V. Ananda Bose was appointed as the Governor of West Bengal on 23 November 2022, nobody would have imagined that less than...

How to make unpopular candidates win, the Trinamool way

KOLKATA: The question that has left everybody flummoxed is how the Trinamool Congress managed to wrest victory for its ‘unpopular and unwinnable candidates’ in...

TMC threatens to stop doles and funds in areas that supported BJP

The heat and dust of the just-concluded general elections may have settled across most of India, but West Bengal—which saw the Trinamool Congress defy...

BJP names probe team as post-poll violence erupts in Bengal

KOLKATA: Concerned over reports of post-poll violence against BJP karyakartas pouring in from across West Bengal, BJP president Jagat Prakash Nadda today constituted a...

Poor ground presence contributed to BJP’s sub-par performance in Bengal

KOLKATA: The BJP’s litany of corruption allegations failed to resonate with voters, while the CAA, intended as a BJP electoral strategy, prompted minorities previously undecided...

How to rig votes and influence people, a primer from Bengal

KOLKATA: “Rigging of polls” refers to illegal or unethical practices intended to manipulate the outcome of an election. This can undermine the fairness, transparency,...

Violence, rigging mar last phase of polls in Bengal

KOLKATA: Widespread allegations of vote rigging and violence in all nine Lok Sabha constituencies and one Assembly seat marked the seventh and last phase...

Marquee Seats in West Bengal to see fascinating contests

KOLKATA: If there is any one constituency that will keep the country engrossed, it is Basirhat. This seat comprises Sandeshkhali, which hit the headlines...

Poll violence sweeps Bengal seats in sixth phase

KOLKATA: In Jhargram Lok Sabha seat, BJP candidate Pranat Tudu and his security detail had to run for their lives as a TMC mob...

West Bengal’s Agrarian Belt sees Star-Dust Laden Contests

KOLKATA: Hooghly will see the most eye-catching contest as actor and game show hostess Rachana Banerjee of the TMC is pitted against her former...

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