BJP to swear in West Bengal govt on May 9, Suvendu Adhikari leads CM raceThe new BJP government in West Bengal will be sworn in on May 9. The oath-taking ceremony will take place at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolka...
07 May, 2026, 12.24 AM IST
Bengal polls: Tata exit still shapes Singur, 18 years onSingur's landscape is marked by abandoned factory remnants and damaged farmland. The Tata Motors Nano project's 2008 exit reshaped Bengal p...
25 Apr, 2026, 01.24 PM IST
BJP announces fifth list of candidates ahead of West Bengal Assembly electionsThe Bharatiya Janata Party has announced its fifth list of candidates for the West Bengal Assembly elections. Several candidate changes hav...
04 Apr, 2026, 10.06 PM IST
Congress seeks PM Modi's apology for 'insulting' founding fathers with 'Vande Mataram' remarksCongress general secretary Jairam Ramesh shared pages of Tagore's biography in Bengali, where he suggested that the first two stanzas of "V...
08 Nov, 2025, 06.47 PM IST
"We are not at the doors with a begging bowl": BJP MP Samik Bhattacharya in LondonIn London, BJP MP Samik Bhattacharya declared India's firm stance against terrorism, cautioning global powers about the impending threat. H...
02 Jun, 2025, 10.20 AM IST
PM, Visva Bharati VC taking undue credit for Santiniketan's UNESCO heritage tag: TMC MP SircarTrinamool Congress MP Jawhar Sircar has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Visva Bharati university Chancellor Biduyt Chakraborty of ...
21 Oct, 2023, 05.42 PM IST
Visva-Bharati university show-causes 7 teachers for complaining to PresidentOne of the show-caused professors alleged they were prevented from meeting the President and Governor and taking up the issue with the Pres...
28 Mar, 2023, 04.55 PM IST
Clash of heavyweights in fourth round: Four ministers, three MPs in fray; real test in North BengalForty-four constituencies will go to the polls on Saturday in the fourth round of eight-phased assembly elections in West Bengal. The seats...
10 Apr, 2021, 08.15 AM IST
13 years after Tata's ouster, Singur seeks industrialisationIronically, both the TMC and the BJP have promised industrialisation in Singur this election, having got a whiff of local sentiments, with ...
08 Apr, 2021, 04.52 PM IST
In West Bengal, CPM betting on youth power to deliverThe CPM has fielded a bunch of fresh and young faces in the West Bengal assembly election, hoping to attract youth to the party that has lo...
06 Apr, 2021, 08.37 AM IST
In Singur, lack of growth becomes a poll issueThe BJP seems to have struck the right chord with the people as economic growth and industrialisation are what the people of Singur are loo...
24 Mar, 2021, 10.39 PM IST
Bengal polls: BJP names candidates for 3rd, 4th phases; denied tickets, aspirants protest, quitIn a surprise move, the party nominated Trinamool Congress turncoat and octogenarian sitting MLA of Singur, Rabindranath Bhattacharya. Of l...
15 Mar, 2021, 09.41 AM IST
Trinamool Congress faces fresh spate of defections; 5 sitting MLAs, other leaders join BJPFour-time MLAs Sonali Guha, a close associate of TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee for decades, and 80-year-old Rabindranath Bhattacharya, a prom...
08 Mar, 2021, 08.54 PM IST
Singur leaders find no place in Mamata Banerjee's cabinetThis time as Rabindranath Bhattacharya and Becharam Manna — the two faces of Banerjee's Singur movement — have lost the Trinamool leader’s ...
02 Jun, 2016, 02.43 AM IST
Old land scar not healed, Singur limps to electionsIn Bengal, Singur is not just another constituency, it is a dream that has gone wrong; a place that promised so much, but got nothing.
30 Apr, 2016, 01.30 AM IST
- West Bengal government starts process to return Singur land to farmers
The move comes a day after Tata Motors counsel Samaraditya Pal urged state Advocate General to status quo with regard to distribution of la...
27 Jun, 2011, 04.29 AM IST
- Violence at Tata Motors' site in Singur
Violence erupted at the Tata Motors plant site in Singur today as protestors clashed with police.
20 May, 2007, 02.38 PM IST