Bharati Ghosh

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray still shares a very strong bond with PM Modi and that is separate from politics, top Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said today, weeks after an interaction between the two leaders caused wild speculation.

Retired bureaucrats have contested elections in the past. But in Bengal's Debra constituency that goes to the polls on April 1, two IPS officers are locked in a face off against each other - both known to have been close to Chief Minister Mamata Bane

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that the non-bailable arrest warrant against BJP candidate and former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh in connection with the 2019 Lok Sabha polls violence case be kept in abeyance till the conclusion of the assembly polls in West Bengal.

West Bengal's Debra constituency will see a fierce contest between two former senior police officers, one from the Trinamool Congress and the other from its rival Bharatiya Janata Party.

Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen expressing support for him in a controversy over reports that he is on the Visva Bharati University's list of illegal plot holders. Some "nouveau invaders" were raising baseless allegations, the Bengal Chief Minister said in the letter addressed to "Amartya da".

Chirag Paswan, lately facing an open backlash from ally BJP to his criticism of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, said today that he felt "hurt" at comments by BJP leaders but insisted that his goal remained to establish a government with the BJP after elections in the state. The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader, warned off by the BJP against usin...

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Supriya Sule, responding to her father Sharad Pawar's claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had offered that they "work together", said today that it was "magnanimous" of the PM but her father had "humbly" said no.

After Rajya Sabha member Neeraj Shekhar, the Samajwadi Party may lose two more parliamentarians to the ruling BJP. Sources say the two lawmakers are in touch with the BJP and may announce their resignations in the coming days.

Former Indian Police Service officer and BJP leader Bharati Ghosh approached the Supreme Court on Friday seeking transfer of all the cases registered against her by the West Bengal police to an independent agency.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Bharati Ghosh was attacked in West Bengal and a poll officer was allegedly beaten up by an MLA of the party in Uttar Pradesh during the Lok Sabha poll's sixth and penultimate phase on Sunday in which over 63 per cent turnout was recorded in 59 seats across six states and the national capital.

The Election Commission today ordered the removal of Bankura District Magistrate Uma Shankar, following clashes between Trinamool Congress and BJP workers in the West Bengal constituency during the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha polls on Sunday. IAS official Mukta Arya has replaced him with immediate effect.

BJP candidate Bharati Ghosh, a former IPS officer and once a trusted lieutenant of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was in tears Sunday morning after she was attacked, heckled and pushed to the ground at a polling station as the state votes in the sixth round of the national election. Ms Ghosh is the BJP candidate in Bengal's Ghatal.

Reopening the debate over the box unloaded at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's helipad at Chitraguda, Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Fridayclaimed BJP leaders with Z Plus security were evading scrutiny and entering the state with boxes of cash.

Around 2 am at a town around 100 km from Kolkata, policemen stopped a car for a routine election season check and seized cash worth over Rs one lakh. The car owner was their former boss Bharati Ghosh, who is contesting the election as a BJP candidate from Ghatal.

A day after the BJP candidate from West Bengal's Ghatal constituency sparked off a controversy by threatening to "thrash Trinamool Congress workers like dogs", the Election Commission today asked the West Midnapore district magistrate to file a report.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray still shares a very strong bond with PM Modi and that is separate from politics, top Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said today, weeks after an interaction between the two leaders caused wild speculation.

Retired bureaucrats have contested elections in the past. But in Bengal's Debra constituency that goes to the polls on April 1, two IPS officers are locked in a face off against each other - both known to have been close to Chief Minister Mamata Bane

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that the non-bailable arrest warrant against BJP candidate and former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh in connection with the 2019 Lok Sabha polls violence case be kept in abeyance till the conclusion of the assembly polls in West Bengal.

West Bengal's Debra constituency will see a fierce contest between two former senior police officers, one from the Trinamool Congress and the other from its rival Bharatiya Janata Party.

Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen expressing support for him in a controversy over reports that he is on the Visva Bharati University's list of illegal plot holders. Some "nouveau invaders" were raising baseless allegations, the Bengal Chief Minister said in the letter addressed to "Amartya da".

Chirag Paswan, lately facing an open backlash from ally BJP to his criticism of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, said today that he felt "hurt" at comments by BJP leaders but insisted that his goal remained to establish a government with the BJP after elections in the state. The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader, warned off by the BJP against usin...

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Supriya Sule, responding to her father Sharad Pawar's claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had offered that they "work together", said today that it was "magnanimous" of the PM but her father had "humbly" said no.

After Rajya Sabha member Neeraj Shekhar, the Samajwadi Party may lose two more parliamentarians to the ruling BJP. Sources say the two lawmakers are in touch with the BJP and may announce their resignations in the coming days.

Former Indian Police Service officer and BJP leader Bharati Ghosh approached the Supreme Court on Friday seeking transfer of all the cases registered against her by the West Bengal police to an independent agency.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Bharati Ghosh was attacked in West Bengal and a poll officer was allegedly beaten up by an MLA of the party in Uttar Pradesh during the Lok Sabha poll's sixth and penultimate phase on Sunday in which over 63 per cent turnout was recorded in 59 seats across six states and the national capital.

The Election Commission today ordered the removal of Bankura District Magistrate Uma Shankar, following clashes between Trinamool Congress and BJP workers in the West Bengal constituency during the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha polls on Sunday. IAS official Mukta Arya has replaced him with immediate effect.

BJP candidate Bharati Ghosh, a former IPS officer and once a trusted lieutenant of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was in tears Sunday morning after she was attacked, heckled and pushed to the ground at a polling station as the state votes in the sixth round of the national election. Ms Ghosh is the BJP candidate in Bengal's Ghatal.

Reopening the debate over the box unloaded at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's helipad at Chitraguda, Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Fridayclaimed BJP leaders with Z Plus security were evading scrutiny and entering the state with boxes of cash.

Around 2 am at a town around 100 km from Kolkata, policemen stopped a car for a routine election season check and seized cash worth over Rs one lakh. The car owner was their former boss Bharati Ghosh, who is contesting the election as a BJP candidate from Ghatal.

A day after the BJP candidate from West Bengal's Ghatal constituency sparked off a controversy by threatening to "thrash Trinamool Congress workers like dogs", the Election Commission today asked the West Midnapore district magistrate to file a report.