Monideepa Banerjie Alok Pandey

Days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah's triumphant parade in the town of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took on the BJP on Tuesday at a campaign rally for next year's elections in Bolpur. Attacking the party for "divisive politics", she said the BJP can "buy a few MLAs" but it cannot buy out the Tr...

The man credited with Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar's electoral success has received a cold call from Mamata Banerjee, though she may not really need him. West Bengal is due for polls next year and the Chief Minister has approached Prashant Kishor, the strategist who has two massive election victories in his bag.

The aftermath of Cyclone Komen has hit large parts of Bengal, Odisha and Manipur, causing floods and landslides in which over 60 people have died so far.

The teenager who had been missing for two months, leading to a bitter political battle in West Bengal, is back. And according to the police, the 15-year-old now claims she had not been abducted.

Elections to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation - billed by many as the semi-final ahead of the assembly elections in West Bengal next year - ended today amid reports of sporadic violence, which the Opposition claimed were carried out by Trinamool Congress.

The group of residents from West Bengal's Kamduni village, where a 20-year-old college student was gang-raped and murdered last month, met President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi today and submitted their demand for a CBI probe in the matter.

Tata Motors has taken Mamata Banerjee's government to court over her decision to reclaim the land at Singur allotted to the company in 2007 for its Nano factory. The Calcutta High Court has begun hearing the case. "Anybody can go to court, it is anybody's democratic right," said Ms Banerjee.  Late last evening, a government notice was pasted a...

Across West Bengal, the Congress and Mamata Banerjee have combined forces in their battle to push the Left out of power.In the six northern districts that voted today, though, the alliance's real competition lies within - in the rebels from discontent Congressmen, particularly in Malda and Dinajpur.  The Congress' decision to allow Ms Banerjee...

Days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah's triumphant parade in the town of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took on the BJP on Tuesday at a campaign rally for next year's elections in Bolpur. Attacking the party for "divisive politics", she said the BJP can "buy a few MLAs" but it cannot buy out the Tr...

The man credited with Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar's electoral success has received a cold call from Mamata Banerjee, though she may not really need him. West Bengal is due for polls next year and the Chief Minister has approached Prashant Kishor, the strategist who has two massive election victories in his bag.

The aftermath of Cyclone Komen has hit large parts of Bengal, Odisha and Manipur, causing floods and landslides in which over 60 people have died so far.

The teenager who had been missing for two months, leading to a bitter political battle in West Bengal, is back. And according to the police, the 15-year-old now claims she had not been abducted.

Elections to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation - billed by many as the semi-final ahead of the assembly elections in West Bengal next year - ended today amid reports of sporadic violence, which the Opposition claimed were carried out by Trinamool Congress.

The group of residents from West Bengal's Kamduni village, where a 20-year-old college student was gang-raped and murdered last month, met President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi today and submitted their demand for a CBI probe in the matter.

Tata Motors has taken Mamata Banerjee's government to court over her decision to reclaim the land at Singur allotted to the company in 2007 for its Nano factory. The Calcutta High Court has begun hearing the case. "Anybody can go to court, it is anybody's democratic right," said Ms Banerjee.  Late last evening, a government notice was pasted a...

Across West Bengal, the Congress and Mamata Banerjee have combined forces in their battle to push the Left out of power.In the six northern districts that voted today, though, the alliance's real competition lies within - in the rebels from discontent Congressmen, particularly in Malda and Dinajpur.  The Congress' decision to allow Ms Banerjee...