Trinamool Founding Day

The body of a local BJP leader, who was allegedly missing for the past three-four days, was found hanging in his residence at Balpai village in Paschim Medinipur district this morning, police said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today resolved to make "Bengal better and stronger each day" and thanked her grass-root workers and its three ideological anchors, "Maa, Mati, and Manush", as the Trinamool Congress turned 23 years old. The anniversary comes, perhaps, at one of the party's most turbulent periods as the state heads for legi...

A day a BJP MLA from West Bengal was found hanging at a shop, senior leaders of the BJP met President Ram Nath Kovind to complain about the "killing" and "unabated" lawlessness in the state and demand the dissolution of the state Assembly. The party has blamed the ruling Trinamool Congress for the "cold-blooded murder"of Debendra Nath Ray, an MLA f...

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's high voltage campaigns in north Bengal, a man was found hanging in Siliguri's BJP booth office this morning.

A Trinamool leader was found in West Bengal's Hooghly district on Monday, police said. Ritesh Roy, 45, a cooperative society chairman from East Midnapore district's Marishda village, was found dead near Hooghly's Dadpur village. He had been missing since February 7.

The death of a man at the hands of a mob in Alwar found resonance for a second day in parliament today as the opposition attacked the government over the wave of hatred sweeping the country. While in Rajya Sabha, the Trinamool Congress demanded a law to prevent killings by cow vigilantes, Dalit leader Mayawati accused the BJP of "allowing innocent ...

A 30-year-old BJP worker who was found hanging from an electric pylon yesterday in West Bengal's Purulia committed suicide, doctors at a government hospital have said in the post-mortem report. The death, second in four days -- a BJP worker was found hanging from a tree in the same district on Wednesday -- has sparked a heated political blame game ...

Politics appears to have kept the embers in West Bengal's Asansol burning days after clashes erupted over Ram Navami rallies. The Mamata Banerjee government has blamed BJP leaders of fueling the violence, the BJP holds the ruling Trinamool Congress's appeasement politics responsible and the Communist Party of India blames them both.

Mukul Roy, a founding member of the Trinamool Congress who was imported by the BJP three days ago, landed in Kolkata this afternoon to a reception by his new party that was nothing short of rousing. Hundreds of BJP workers, and a sprinkling perhaps of Mr Roy's own supporters, beat drums and raised slogans at airport to welcome him.

Mukul Roy, once West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Number 2 in the Trinamool Congress who joined the BJP yesterday, is already experiencing the effects of switching his allegiance. The 63-year-old who quit the Trinamool and resigned his Rajya Sabha seat last month has been given 'Y Plus' category security by the centre.

There was high drama before the police arrested Juhi Choudhury on Tuesday night, a BJP leader, in connection with the baby selling racket in West Bengal. The CID had been able to track her down to a house in Kharibari block of Darjeeling, just a 10-minute drive from the Indo-Nepal border. The information was that Ms Chowdhury - who had slipped into...

A day after the flyover collapse in Kolkata, which killed 25 people and injured more than 80, the Mamata Banerjee government found itself on the backfoot, following the comment of its one of its own senior leaders.

Bengal's transport minister Madan Mitra was today denied bail in the Saradha chit fund case, on a day he apparently fell down in the jail bathroom, was found to have high blood pressure and admitted to SSKM hospital in Kolkata.

A teenaged girl who protested when her father was being beaten on the orders of a village court was found dead on Tuesday in Jailpaiguri district of West Bengal, her naked body lying near railway tracks.

Last week's attacks by Trinamool Congress workers on CPM offices across West Bengal have had tragic and shocking consequences in Siliguri. A college student, who was arrested last week and sent to hospital after he fell ill, was found chained to his hospital bed. Another youth, also arrested that day, lost his mother on Saturday.

The body of a local BJP leader, who was allegedly missing for the past three-four days, was found hanging in his residence at Balpai village in Paschim Medinipur district this morning, police said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today resolved to make "Bengal better and stronger each day" and thanked her grass-root workers and its three ideological anchors, "Maa, Mati, and Manush", as the Trinamool Congress turned 23 years old. The anniversary comes, perhaps, at one of the party's most turbulent periods as the state heads for legi...

A day a BJP MLA from West Bengal was found hanging at a shop, senior leaders of the BJP met President Ram Nath Kovind to complain about the "killing" and "unabated" lawlessness in the state and demand the dissolution of the state Assembly. The party has blamed the ruling Trinamool Congress for the "cold-blooded murder"of Debendra Nath Ray, an MLA f...

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's high voltage campaigns in north Bengal, a man was found hanging in Siliguri's BJP booth office this morning.

A Trinamool leader was found in West Bengal's Hooghly district on Monday, police said. Ritesh Roy, 45, a cooperative society chairman from East Midnapore district's Marishda village, was found dead near Hooghly's Dadpur village. He had been missing since February 7.

The death of a man at the hands of a mob in Alwar found resonance for a second day in parliament today as the opposition attacked the government over the wave of hatred sweeping the country. While in Rajya Sabha, the Trinamool Congress demanded a law to prevent killings by cow vigilantes, Dalit leader Mayawati accused the BJP of "allowing innocent ...

A 30-year-old BJP worker who was found hanging from an electric pylon yesterday in West Bengal's Purulia committed suicide, doctors at a government hospital have said in the post-mortem report. The death, second in four days -- a BJP worker was found hanging from a tree in the same district on Wednesday -- has sparked a heated political blame game ...

Politics appears to have kept the embers in West Bengal's Asansol burning days after clashes erupted over Ram Navami rallies. The Mamata Banerjee government has blamed BJP leaders of fueling the violence, the BJP holds the ruling Trinamool Congress's appeasement politics responsible and the Communist Party of India blames them both.

Mukul Roy, a founding member of the Trinamool Congress who was imported by the BJP three days ago, landed in Kolkata this afternoon to a reception by his new party that was nothing short of rousing. Hundreds of BJP workers, and a sprinkling perhaps of Mr Roy's own supporters, beat drums and raised slogans at airport to welcome him.

Mukul Roy, once West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Number 2 in the Trinamool Congress who joined the BJP yesterday, is already experiencing the effects of switching his allegiance. The 63-year-old who quit the Trinamool and resigned his Rajya Sabha seat last month has been given 'Y Plus' category security by the centre.

There was high drama before the police arrested Juhi Choudhury on Tuesday night, a BJP leader, in connection with the baby selling racket in West Bengal. The CID had been able to track her down to a house in Kharibari block of Darjeeling, just a 10-minute drive from the Indo-Nepal border. The information was that Ms Chowdhury - who had slipped into...

A day after the flyover collapse in Kolkata, which killed 25 people and injured more than 80, the Mamata Banerjee government found itself on the backfoot, following the comment of its one of its own senior leaders.

Bengal's transport minister Madan Mitra was today denied bail in the Saradha chit fund case, on a day he apparently fell down in the jail bathroom, was found to have high blood pressure and admitted to SSKM hospital in Kolkata.

A teenaged girl who protested when her father was being beaten on the orders of a village court was found dead on Tuesday in Jailpaiguri district of West Bengal, her naked body lying near railway tracks.

Last week's attacks by Trinamool Congress workers on CPM offices across West Bengal have had tragic and shocking consequences in Siliguri. A college student, who was arrested last week and sent to hospital after he fell ill, was found chained to his hospital bed. Another youth, also arrested that day, lost his mother on Saturday.