How BJP, Congress are accusing each other of doublespeak in assembly electionsAs campaigning ended on Thursday in West Bengal and Assam for the first phase of assembly election to be held on March 27, the war of words...
26 Mar, 2021, 10.56 AM IST
West Bengal polls: ISF fields candidates from across religions, castesOf the 21 candidates the Indian Secular Front has so far announced as part of its share of seats in the alliance with the Left Front and th...
18 Mar, 2021, 12.25 PM IST
West Bengal: The most fiercely contested assembly electionsThe BJP is confident that people’s sentiment against the TMC’s ‘mis-governance’ will help it while TMC believes that the battle will be fou...
12 Mar, 2021, 10.24 AM IST
View: Left helping BJP by default in West BengalFor the Left, Mamata became a bigger enemy than the BJP. Rather than taking the defeat as a matter of routine in electoral politics, the Le...
10 Mar, 2021, 06.18 PM IST
Mamata faces do-or-die battle in high-stakes Bengal assembly electionsStakes are high for the tempestuous TMC boss as losing the elections might put a question mark on the very existence of her "ideology-starv...
10 Mar, 2021, 12.50 PM IST
Left-Congress-ISF alliance to kick off Bengal campaign with mega Kolkata rallyThe Left-Congress-ISF alliance will kick-off its campaign for the upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal with a mega rally at the Briga...
27 Feb, 2021, 04.13 PM IST
Uncertainty for AIMIM in Bengal as Congress-Left announce alliance with Furfura Sharif clericState Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who addressed a joint press conference with Left Front chairman Biman Bose on Tuesday, sai...
17 Feb, 2021, 01.17 PM IST
Normal life partially affected in 12-hour Bengal bandh called by Left FrontLeft cadre blocked railway tracks and roads in Malda, Barddhaman, Raiganj, Asansol, Dankuni and parts of Kolkata, North 24 Parganas and Nad...
12 Feb, 2021, 11.56 AM IST
Congress, Left will continue talks, resolve differences over seat-sharing: AdhirOn January 28, the Congress and the Left Front had sealed a deal for 193 seats. The Left will contest in 101 seats and the Congress in 92 c...
07 Feb, 2021, 10.01 PM IST
Mamata created Hindu-Muslim divide, did more harm than good to Muslims: Abbas SiddiquiThe 34-year-old cleric is trying to forge an alliance with the Congress-CPI(M) combine as also the AIMIM of Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi a...
27 Jan, 2021, 04.43 PM IST
West Bengal 2021: Challenges facing both TMC and BJP in the developing identity politics in the upcoming elections.From 2011, when TMC came to power unseating the Left Front, it has received the unwavering support of the Muslim community, which increased...
12 Jan, 2021, 08.45 AM IST
- It will not be a bipolar contest in many seats: CPM’s Mohammed Salim
He said the pandemic has given the CPM, that was ousted in 2011 after being in power for 34 years in the state, an opportunity to renew its...
07 Jan, 2021, 03.31 PM IST
Not just MIM, my talks are on with CPM, Congress too: Abbas SiddiquiThe controversial cleric, who had been condemned by the TMC for making offensive remarks against the party, was approached by TMC leaders f...
06 Jan, 2021, 07.25 AM IST
Peeved Bengal cleric joins hands with Owaisi's MIM, spells trouble for Mamata BanerjeeAIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi made the announcement after visiting the pirzada from Furfura Sharif, in his first trip to the state following...
04 Jan, 2021, 09.34 AM IST
Owaisi visits Bengal, holds meeting with religious leader"Owaisi wanted to keep the meeting a secret as we were apprehensive that the state government might have stopped him from exiting the airpo...
03 Jan, 2021, 12.49 PM IST