'Disgraceful assault on rule of law': Abhishek Banerjee alleges BJP workers stormed TMC office at 4.30 AM, slams Kolkata Police inactionTrinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday alleged that BJP workers armed with weapons stormed the party's Camac Street offi...
03 Sep, 2026, 08.08 AM IST
Jadavpur's Tagore-linked emblem damaged in vandalism; case filedIn response to violent protests on campus, the vice chancellor of Jadavpur University has filed police complaints addressing the incident o...
21 Aug, 2026, 11.29 PM IST
Some groups indulge in 'anti-national activities' on Jadavpur University campus: West Bengal minister Dilip GhoshWest Bengal minister Dilip Ghosh has spoken out against the rise of anti-national activities on the campus of Jadavpur University, advocati...
21 Aug, 2026, 12.52 PM IST
Three months into opposition in Bengal: TMC split tests Mamata - survive, reinvent or fadeThe TMC faces a significant crisis after its electoral defeat and loss of government power. Mamata Banerjee must now rebuild a party fractu...
19 Aug, 2026, 12.58 PM IST
'BJP had no role': West Bengal Minister Arjun Singh amid row over alleged attack on Mamata Banerjee's convoyWest Bengal Transport Minister Arjun Singh said the BJP had no role in the alleged attack on former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s convoy...
10 Aug, 2026, 06.50 AM IST
79 years ago, a man who had never visited India & knew little about its complex landscape drew a line that divided India and PakistanRadcliffe Line 1947: In 1947, British lawyer Sir Cyril Radcliffe chaired the boundary commissions that demarcated the Radcliffe Line, divid...
09 Aug, 2026, 11.33 AM IST
Govt issues takedown notices for objectionable and anti-PM postsNEET protest content involving AI misinformation and unlawful content flagged for removal from social media platforms, says official; many ...
28 Jul, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
Pradhan offered to quit on first day of student agitation: BJP leader VijayvargiyaMadhya Pradesh minister Kailash Vijayvargiya stated Dharmendra Pradhan offered to resign as Union Education Minister. This offer was made o...
26 Jul, 2026, 10.29 AM IST
Bengal assembly passes bill proposing preventive detention of anti-socials for up to 12 monthsWest Bengal has enacted a new law, the Public Safety and Control of Anti-Social Activities Bill, 2026, allowing for preventive detention of...
29 Jun, 2026, 05.52 PM IST
Governer visits Rishra, promises actionJust like his predecessor Jagdeep Dhankhar, who visited the victims of political violence across Bengal in 2021, Bose visited the trouble-t...
04 Apr, 2023, 11.06 PM IST
Post-poll violence continues in West BengalChandan Maity, a BJP worker in East Midnapore’s Bhaganbanpur, was returning from a friend’s house, when he was beaten up, captured and hack...
07 Nov, 2021, 09.02 PM IST
Revisiting West Bengal's chequered history of political violenceA five-judge bench of the court, in its order, has observed that "women were raped and houses of certain persons who had not supported the ...
21 Aug, 2021, 01.47 PM IST
As the fight for political space gets brutal in West Bengal, a look at its violent pastLast month, BJP president JP Nadda’s convoy was attacked allegedly by TMC goons. Stone-pelting and open fight followed soon after. While it...
09 Jan, 2021, 11.31 PM IST
No abating of political violence in West Bengal: GovernorThe governor, who is visiting neighbouring Cooch Behar district, said that an atmosphere of political violence and vendetta is prevailing i...
12 Nov, 2020, 08.03 PM IST
7 states told to inquire into political violenceThe home ministry last month rapped the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal over political violence in the state.
01 Jul, 2019, 11.14 PM IST
Ending Bengal's politics-violence marriageTo most political pundits, economic revival was the key to bringing Bengal, back on the rails.
12 Jan, 2012, 08.58 AM IST
- West Bengal political violence continues
Violence erupted in Mangalkot in West Bengal’s Burdwan district yet again on Saturday after police resorted to lathicharge and burst tear g...
08 Aug, 2009, 08.39 PM IST