Trinamool Congress insiders say that for the past two years, Mamata Banerjee had virtually handed over charge of party affairs to Abhishek Banerjee.
With Mamata...
Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways and Ayush, Sarbananda Sonowal, has unveiled a Rs 45,000 crore investment plan for the development of inland...
Almost every district in Bengal has its own Shahjahan Sheikhs, who help the TMC win elections.
The attack on a team of Enforcement Directorate officials...
To address this shortfall in numbers, the state BJP leadership has decided to induct members of other parties.
With internal surveys indicating that the Bengal...
The I.N.D.I.A. bloc may implode in West Bengal, with state leaders of the Congress Party adamantly opposing any tie-up with the Trinamool Congress. The...
The Congress’ poor show in the recently-held Assembly elections has come as a silent blessing for its I.N.D.I.A. bloc allies like the Trinamool Congress...
KOLKATA
The Bharatiya Janata Party is poised to launch a direct attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, targeting her personally in its campaign...
NEW DELHI
Months before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, battle lines are already being drawn in Diamond Harbour constituency in West Bengal as rival parties...
Former Food Minister Jyotipriya Mallick was arrested in the early hours of Friday in the alleged scam.
Suvendu Adhikari, the BJP’s Leader of the Opposition,...
The Bengal Chief Minister has termed the ED actions against Opposition leaders as ‘a dirty political game’.
With two Ministers and two MLAs behind bars...
KOLKATA
Amid fears that a bumper crop and last year’s unsold production of jute could impact farmers, the Centre has increased the minimum support price...
Under Abhishek’s leadership, the party has taken up a high-decibel campaign against the Centre on MGNREGA and PM Awas Yojana funds.
KOLKATA
Months before the 2024...
Dismisses TMC charge that she refused to meet the party’s team in Delhi for talks on MGNREGA dues.
KOLKATA
In an unexpected development that caught the...
Centre has blocked payment of over Rs 7,500 crore to Bengal for ‘non-compliance of directives of the Central government’.
KOLKATA
Invoking Section 27 of the Mahatma...
Dead people were ‘working’ under MGNREGA and money was being credited into accounts ‘created’ in their names.
KOLKATA
The MGNREGA, launched in 2006, was envisioned to...
TMC number two Abhishek Banerjee is slated to lead the protests in Delhi in the absence of Mamata Banerjee.
KOLKATA
Fuming against the BJP government for...
KOLKATA
Late last Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted: “Delighted that Santiniketan, an embodiment of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s vision and India’s rich cultural heritage,...
KOLKATA
The first coordination committee meeting of the I.N.D.I.A. bloc at Sharad Pawar’s Delhi residence on Wednesday had 12 politicians and an empty chair in...
KOLKATA
The eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government and Governor C.V. Ananda Bose is showing no sign of respite, with...
KOLKATA
B.L. Santhosh, the BJP’s National General Secretary (Organisation), is in Kolkata to hold a post-mortem into the party’s defeat in the Dhupguri by-elections.
The BJP...
KOLKATA
Last Sunday morning at about 10:15a.m., a powerful explosion rocked the residence of Trinamool Congress activist Ajibur Rahman in Nilganj village of Dattapukur, in...
Trinamool Congress has alleged that dead bodies of the workers arrived in pathetic condition from Mizoram.
KOLKATA
Sitting on the verandah of her one-storey house in...
Retired bank officials red-flag her directorship with a real estate firm that allegedly defrauded them; Jahan refutes charges.
KOLKATA
Trinamool Lok Sabha parliamentarian and actor Nusrat...
KOLKATA
According to veteran political observers, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has reaped rich dividends throughout her political career from her ability to...
Ground realities make the idea a non-starter, say state leaders.KOLKATA
At a time when the leaders of 26 Opposition parties showed grace and bonhomie during...
KOLKATA
In the run-up to the Bengal panchayat elections, Bharatiya Janata Party leaders declared from every platform that they were instrumental in stopping Central...
At least 16 people were killed and hundreds injured in West Bengal on Saturday as rival parties clashed amid widespread booth capturing and violence...
At least nine political workers have been killed in the violence in the state.
With Panchayat elections in West Bengal scheduled for 8 July, supporters...
