Bengal to carve out seven new districtsThe new districts -- Baharampur, Kandi, Sundarbans, Bashirhat, Ichamati, Ranaghat and Bishnupur -- will take the total number to 30.
Bengal to carve out seven new districtsWest Bengal is set to get seven new districts with the cabinet giving its nod to the proposal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monda...
West Bengal BJP sends 20 vistaraks to study ‘Gujarat model’Patel said the team was divided into two units, with one travelling to central and southern Gujarat while the other visited northern Gujara...
Communal clashes in West Bengal, state government rushes paramilitary troopsA violent mob put up road blockades at several places and attacked members of other community, besides destroying many shops, said police.
2014: Bengal experienced paradigm shift in political scenarioWith BJP's emergence as a force, Bengal's political equation is witnessing a change and the Left, a formidable force in not-so distant past...
BJP repeats Lok Sabha election success in Assembly by-pollThe BJP last won an Assembly seat in West Bengal in a bypoll in 1999 when it was an ally of the Trinamool Congress.
Voting in bypolls for three Lok Sabha and 33 assembly seatsBJP chief Amit Shah also faces the challenge in the bypolls in UP as he was credited with the party's stupendous success.
Polling begins for bypolls in West BengalVoting for the Chowringhee and Basirhat (South) assembly constituencies in West Bengal began at 7 a.m. Saturday.
Mamata Banerjee tries new faces to fight Saradha-BJP twin threat"It's a political conspiracy against Trinamool. The script has been written by CBI to tarnish the Trinamool chief 's image...Truth will pre...
Byelections in 9 states to test NDA government’s strengthWhile the three LS bypolls are in Vadodara, Mainpuri and Medak - two of which happen to be in PM Narendra Modi's "home" states, Gujarat.
TMC confident of stopping BJP surge in by-pollWith the stakes high for parties in Sept 13 by-poll to Bashirhat South and Chowringhee assembly seats, TMC expressed confidence to stop the...
CPI to fight on 60 seats, declares 39 names for Lok Sabha pollsProbodh Panda and Atul Kumar Anjaan are among 39 candidates declared by CPI for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
- Trinamool-Congress seat-sharing deal fixed at 28:14
Mamata implores regional parties in league with the third front not to join CPM, which ‘has created Nandigram and killed innocents’ .
- Left dreams on as third front wilts away
Bardhan downplays Jayalatithaa, Gowda's overtures towards Congress
- SIM cards used in Mumbai terror attack bought a month back
Ten SIM cards bought a month back from three different locations in Kolkata and sent to Pakistan via Bangladesh out of which three were use...