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...
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...
KOLKATA: “Rigging of polls” refers to illegal or unethical practices intended to manipulate the outcome of an election. This can undermine the fairness, transparency,...
KOLKATA: Widespread allegations of vote rigging and violence in all nine Lok Sabha constituencies and one Assembly seat marked the seventh and last phase...
KOLKATA: If there is any one constituency that will keep the country engrossed, it is Basirhat. This seat comprises Sandeshkhali, which hit the headlines...
KOLKATA: After being on the backfoot for months after the women of Sandeshkhali rose in protest against atrocities committed on them by Trinamool Congress...
KOLKATA: Among the notable names are Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Yusuf Pathan and Shatrughan Sinha.
Eight Lok Sabha seats spread across five districts of West Bengal will...
KOLKATA: A BJP block president is seen saying Sandeshkhali was planned by his party.
The Trinamool Congress today released a purported sting video of a BJP...
KOLKATA: Voting for four Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal’s constituencies of Malda Uttar, Malda Dakshin, Jangipur and Murshidabad will be held in the...
KOLKATA: ‘It is shocking that at the level of the Cabinet of the state government, decision is taken to protect employment obtained fraudulently.’
Even as...
KOLKATA: Abhijit Das is a self-declared Bhumiputra who was severely assaulted allegedly by TMC.
The BJP came out with its first list of candidates for...
BJP insiders fear that the party could lose Raiganj and Cooch Behar this time. According to them, demographic changes in the two constituencies make...
A Bharatiya Janata Party rally in support of its Cooch Behar candidate and Union Minister Nisith Pramanik, raising “Allahu Akbar” slogans grabbed eyeballs in...
Many ‘rootless candidates’ have been fielded and Mamata Banerjee’s name alone may not be enough to guarantee a win for her party.
Mamata Banerjee striding...
The land-grab issue that became the cornerstone for TMC’s poll cry has now become the bugbear Mamata Banerjee needs to deal with in Sandeshkhali.
Sandeshkhali,...
The CM is Bengal’s queen of cruelty, alleges Congress leader Adhir Chowdhury.
Sandeshkhali, a sleepy hamlet about 75 km from Kolkata and close to the...
CM’s announcement came as she ended a two-day dharna demanding release of Central dues pending to West Bengal Government for different welfare schemes.
After months...
Barely weeks before the announcement of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal chief minister and TMC president Mamata Banerjee’s hardline stance regarding seat-sharing...
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...
