Bengal bypolls: Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress win four seatsIn all four seats, BJP holds the second position while in Santipur, Left Front has recovered its position while Left Front is in the third ...
Trinamool Congress steam-rolls to victory in all four by-polls in BengalThe TMC wrested the Dinhata and Santipur seats in Coochbehar and Nadia districts respectively from the BJP by huge margins, to raise its ta...
TMC wins Gosaba assembly by-poll by a record 1.43 Lakh marginTMC's Subrata Mondal secured 1,61,474 votes, whereas BJP's Palash Rana, his nearest rival, garnered a mere 18,428 votes. The bypoll for the...
By-polls to four West Bengal assembly constituencies beginThe by-election at Dinhata were necessitated by the resignation of Nisith Pramanik, now Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, who favou...
Four West Bengal assembly segments up for bypolls; prestige fight for BJP in two seatsBypolls to Dinhata and Santipur are prestige battles for the saffron party, which is currently grappling with exodus of MLAs and senior lea...
Trinamool will come to power in Goa in three months: Abhishek BanerjeeGive us three months and we will win the Goa assembly polls. In one and half years, AITC will oust Biplab Deb government from the state of ...
BJP, TMC release list of star campaigners for Bengal bypollsThe four seats going to polls on October 30 are Dinhata (Cooch Behar), Santipur (Nadia), Khardaha (North 24 Parganas) and Gosaba (South 24 ...
West Bengal: BJP announces list of candidates for by-polls in four Assembly seatsTaking a shift from its earlier stance, BJP leadership has selected candidates from the organizational side. Ashok Mondal is district vice-...
Central teams do ground, aerial surveys to assess Yaas damageEighteen districts across the state, including Purba Medinipur, South 24 Parganas, North 24 Parganas and Paschim Medinipur, were impacted b...
Amphan relief main issue in 3 S. Pargana districtsUnion home minister Amit Shah has alleged at several public rallies that chief minister Mamata Banerjee ‘siphoned off’ the money meant for ...
As tides rise, Indian villagers find a friend in mangrovesWithout mangroves, fields would be flooded by brackish sea water, making the soil saline and unfit to grow staple crops or vegetables.
West Bengal government comes up with new type of rice, 'Muktoshri'There are 81 arsenic affected blocks in the state. The cultivation of the new variety of rice will take 125 to 130 days.
- Frequent tiger, crocodile attacks in Sundarbans villages
Sheba Mridha sobs uncontrollably as she looks at the thick mangrove forest on the other bank of Ganral river at Gosaba delta in Sundarbans.
Crab collector lifted by tigerA 50-year-old man was lifted by a tiger while he was collecting crabs from Pirkhali forest in the Sundarbans on Tuesday, the police said.
- Strayed tiger caught
A tiger from the Sundarbans that had strayed into Chargheri village under Gosaba police station was caught in area near the village, forest...
- Tigress enters home to escape cyclone fury
A family in a village near the Sundarbans, terrified by the ferocity of cyclone Aila, had a bigger shock awaiting them on Monday when they ...
Five arrested in connection with tiger killingFive persons have been arrested in connection with the killing of an adult tiger whose carcass was found floating in a river in the Sundarb...