Monideepa Banerjie And Saurabh Gupta

BJP supporters held angry protests outside the party's election office in Kolkata all day on Monday, even heckling senior leaders Mukul Roy, Arjun Singh and Shiv Prakash, to protest against the fielding of a large number of former Trinamool leaders as BJP candidates. This on a day when Amit Shah landed in Kolkata unexpectedly to stay the night on h...

Mamata Banerjee will contest the Bengal election from Nandigram and vacate her own seat of Bhowanipore in Kolkata as she takes on the challenge thrown by Suvendu Adhikari, her one-time right hand man who crossed over to the BJP in December.

Mamata Banerjee arrived at work on an electric scooter today. The West Bengal Chief Minister, known for her modest "Santro" image, took things a notch up - or, perhaps, down - to drive home the point on spiralling fuel prices. In the run up to the state Assembly polls scheduled for April-May, today's ride is an indication that the Trinamool Congres...

The BJP and the ruling Trinamool Congress are engaged in a tussle over the celebration of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's 125th birth anniversary on Saturday. While Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will lead a 6-km march in Kolkata, from Shyambazar in the north to Red Road in the heart of the city, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will preside over the inau...

Almost a month after his convoy came under attack, BJP chief JP Nadda was back in West Bengal today, keeping with his outfit's schedule for him in the poll-bound state. He is set to launch his party's day-long door-to-door rice collection programme aimed at wooing farmers amid the protest in Delhi over contentious agriculture laws.

As Mamata Banerjee protests in the heart of Kolkata near the Metro Channel station, sitting, pacing, consulting and resting on a stage with a chair, it is a throwback to the agitation that catapulted her to the post of Bengal Chief Minister. The 64-year-old has returned to the same spot where she held the protest that enabled her campaign to end th...

Mamata Banerjee, sitting on an indefinite protest in Kolkata over a CBI investigation into Ponzi scams allegedly involving several members of her party, was accused by the central government of blocking a Supreme Court-ordered inquiry because she was "trying to hide something". CBI officers were detained last evening as they went to Kolkata police ...

After its surprise result in the Assembly by-poll in West Bengal on Thursday, where it came second, top BJP leaders flew into to Kolkata on Friday with one war cry: agli baar BJP sarkar in Pashchimi Bangal.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the CBI will investigate whether leaders from Bengal's ruling party, the Trinamool Congress, accepted cash as bribes, as alleged by a local news website, which filmed the alleged corruption . The top court today offered strong criticism of the government of Mamata Banerjee and said its appeal to stop the CBI from ha...

Kohima calmed down late on Thursday night after the Army was called in. Five columns, or 375 soldiers, were deployed across the city, which had witnessed arson and vandalism since afternoon as the protests escalated against Nagaland Chief Minister's refusal to postpone the municipal elections, in which seats were reserved for women. Sources said it...

On a day Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress declared that the Central government's currency ban had resulted in close to 100 deaths, Urijit Patel, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India or RBI, came within an inch of being manhandled at the Kolkata airport by angry Congress workers.

You are getting married and suddenly your ex-girlfriend (or boyfriend) shows up and rains on your parade: That was how at least one Kolkata voter is describing the election season in West Bengal. Many others agree with him.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on the Mamata Banerjee government in Bengal today, citing issues from corruption to law and order and governance.

BJP supporters held angry protests outside the party's election office in Kolkata all day on Monday, even heckling senior leaders Mukul Roy, Arjun Singh and Shiv Prakash, to protest against the fielding of a large number of former Trinamool leaders as BJP candidates. This on a day when Amit Shah landed in Kolkata unexpectedly to stay the night on h...

Mamata Banerjee will contest the Bengal election from Nandigram and vacate her own seat of Bhowanipore in Kolkata as she takes on the challenge thrown by Suvendu Adhikari, her one-time right hand man who crossed over to the BJP in December.

Mamata Banerjee arrived at work on an electric scooter today. The West Bengal Chief Minister, known for her modest "Santro" image, took things a notch up - or, perhaps, down - to drive home the point on spiralling fuel prices. In the run up to the state Assembly polls scheduled for April-May, today's ride is an indication that the Trinamool Congres...

The BJP and the ruling Trinamool Congress are engaged in a tussle over the celebration of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's 125th birth anniversary on Saturday. While Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will lead a 6-km march in Kolkata, from Shyambazar in the north to Red Road in the heart of the city, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will preside over the inau...

Almost a month after his convoy came under attack, BJP chief JP Nadda was back in West Bengal today, keeping with his outfit's schedule for him in the poll-bound state. He is set to launch his party's day-long door-to-door rice collection programme aimed at wooing farmers amid the protest in Delhi over contentious agriculture laws.

As Mamata Banerjee protests in the heart of Kolkata near the Metro Channel station, sitting, pacing, consulting and resting on a stage with a chair, it is a throwback to the agitation that catapulted her to the post of Bengal Chief Minister. The 64-year-old has returned to the same spot where she held the protest that enabled her campaign to end th...

Mamata Banerjee, sitting on an indefinite protest in Kolkata over a CBI investigation into Ponzi scams allegedly involving several members of her party, was accused by the central government of blocking a Supreme Court-ordered inquiry because she was "trying to hide something". CBI officers were detained last evening as they went to Kolkata police ...

After its surprise result in the Assembly by-poll in West Bengal on Thursday, where it came second, top BJP leaders flew into to Kolkata on Friday with one war cry: agli baar BJP sarkar in Pashchimi Bangal.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the CBI will investigate whether leaders from Bengal's ruling party, the Trinamool Congress, accepted cash as bribes, as alleged by a local news website, which filmed the alleged corruption . The top court today offered strong criticism of the government of Mamata Banerjee and said its appeal to stop the CBI from ha...

Kohima calmed down late on Thursday night after the Army was called in. Five columns, or 375 soldiers, were deployed across the city, which had witnessed arson and vandalism since afternoon as the protests escalated against Nagaland Chief Minister's refusal to postpone the municipal elections, in which seats were reserved for women. Sources said it...

On a day Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress declared that the Central government's currency ban had resulted in close to 100 deaths, Urijit Patel, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India or RBI, came within an inch of being manhandled at the Kolkata airport by angry Congress workers.

You are getting married and suddenly your ex-girlfriend (or boyfriend) shows up and rains on your parade: That was how at least one Kolkata voter is describing the election season in West Bengal. Many others agree with him.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on the Mamata Banerjee government in Bengal today, citing issues from corruption to law and order and governance.