Monideepa Banerjie And Sunil Prabhu

The Congress and the Left have joined hands in Bengal to challenge the Mamata Banerjee government, which is seeking a third straight term in next year's assembly elections. Senior state leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury announced the Central leadership's approval to the state unit's request this afternoon.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi this afternoon announced a Rs 1,000 crore "advance interim assistance" for West Bengal after he undertook an aerial survey of the areas ravaged by Cyclone Amphan that has killed 80 people in the state. PM Modi, who was accompanied by Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on the helicopter, ...

The Congress has called a meeting of the opposition parties on Friday afternoon to discuss the current situation in the country. The agenda includes the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the migrant issue, the states' suspension of labour laws, and the freeze on the activities of the various parliamentary committees which function ...

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 ...

The Congress, which has often pitched for a grand opposition coalition to defeat the BJP in the national election due by May, is believed to have remodeled its strategy and decided to fly solo in more than one state. Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal are among them.

The Bengal unit of the CPI-M has just had salt rubbed into its wounds. Still reeling from a miserable performance in the Assembly elections, now its top brass is taking it to task for violating party policies and forming an electoral alliance with the Congress.

For a party regularly criticised for unabashed sycophancy, the Congress has gifted its opponents a jackpot controversy. In Bengal, where the party placed a very distant second in last week's election, each of the Congress' 44 lawmakers have been asked to sign a declaration of "unqualified allegiance" to the party and its leaders, Sonia and Rahul Ga...

A Bihar-style tie-up with the Left to battle Mamata Banerjee in the Bengal assembly election was foremost on the minds of state Congress leaders who met Rahul Gandhi today.

Mamata Banerjee is likely to accept Sonia Gandhi's invitation and attend an international conference in Delhi to mark the 125th birth anniversary of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

Mamata Banerjee's plans for her West Bengal government to acquire Tara Musik and Tara News, two of the 13 media outlets that the now-defunct Saradha Group ran, on "grounds of humanity," might just come to naught.

Mamata Banerjee has reportedly refused to wait till the end of March to have her own party's Dinesh Trivedi fired as Railways Minister. The Congress had told her on Thursday to wait till March 30, when Parliament takes a short break, because it wants to minimise the damage caused by Ms Banerjee's request while the union budget and other important l...

Mamata Banerjee may have done irreparable damage to her relationship with the Congress by forcing the government to dismiss her own party's Dinesh Trivedi as Railways Minister.

Mamata Banerjee has proved that in its current state, the Congress cannot refuse any demand she presents. The Prime Minster will agree, say sources, that her own party colleague, Dinesh Trivedi, will be fired as Railways Minister. Sources also say Mr Trivedi has sent in his resignation to the PM. Ms Banerjee is punishing Mr Trivedi for announcing a...

The senior-most leaders of the Congress were forced into an emergency meet at the Prime Minister's house late tonight to discuss Mamata Banerjee's request to sack her party colleague, Dinesh Trivedi, as Railways Minister. Sources say the PM will accept Ms Banerjee's request; and her nominee Mukul Roy will replace Mr Trivedi in the Union cabinet.

The Congress and the Left have joined hands in Bengal to challenge the Mamata Banerjee government, which is seeking a third straight term in next year's assembly elections. Senior state leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury announced the Central leadership's approval to the state unit's request this afternoon.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi this afternoon announced a Rs 1,000 crore "advance interim assistance" for West Bengal after he undertook an aerial survey of the areas ravaged by Cyclone Amphan that has killed 80 people in the state. PM Modi, who was accompanied by Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on the helicopter, ...

The Congress has called a meeting of the opposition parties on Friday afternoon to discuss the current situation in the country. The agenda includes the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the migrant issue, the states' suspension of labour laws, and the freeze on the activities of the various parliamentary committees which function ...

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 ...

The Congress, which has often pitched for a grand opposition coalition to defeat the BJP in the national election due by May, is believed to have remodeled its strategy and decided to fly solo in more than one state. Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal are among them.

The Bengal unit of the CPI-M has just had salt rubbed into its wounds. Still reeling from a miserable performance in the Assembly elections, now its top brass is taking it to task for violating party policies and forming an electoral alliance with the Congress.

For a party regularly criticised for unabashed sycophancy, the Congress has gifted its opponents a jackpot controversy. In Bengal, where the party placed a very distant second in last week's election, each of the Congress' 44 lawmakers have been asked to sign a declaration of "unqualified allegiance" to the party and its leaders, Sonia and Rahul Ga...

A Bihar-style tie-up with the Left to battle Mamata Banerjee in the Bengal assembly election was foremost on the minds of state Congress leaders who met Rahul Gandhi today.

Mamata Banerjee is likely to accept Sonia Gandhi's invitation and attend an international conference in Delhi to mark the 125th birth anniversary of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

Mamata Banerjee's plans for her West Bengal government to acquire Tara Musik and Tara News, two of the 13 media outlets that the now-defunct Saradha Group ran, on "grounds of humanity," might just come to naught.

Mamata Banerjee has reportedly refused to wait till the end of March to have her own party's Dinesh Trivedi fired as Railways Minister. The Congress had told her on Thursday to wait till March 30, when Parliament takes a short break, because it wants to minimise the damage caused by Ms Banerjee's request while the union budget and other important l...

Mamata Banerjee may have done irreparable damage to her relationship with the Congress by forcing the government to dismiss her own party's Dinesh Trivedi as Railways Minister.

Mamata Banerjee has proved that in its current state, the Congress cannot refuse any demand she presents. The Prime Minster will agree, say sources, that her own party colleague, Dinesh Trivedi, will be fired as Railways Minister. Sources also say Mr Trivedi has sent in his resignation to the PM. Ms Banerjee is punishing Mr Trivedi for announcing a...

The senior-most leaders of the Congress were forced into an emergency meet at the Prime Minister's house late tonight to discuss Mamata Banerjee's request to sack her party colleague, Dinesh Trivedi, as Railways Minister. Sources say the PM will accept Ms Banerjee's request; and her nominee Mukul Roy will replace Mr Trivedi in the Union cabinet.