BJP gains in Rarh Bengal, retains North, fails in tribal, farmer’s belts & coastal areasIt won only nine seats in the undivided Medinipur region where party president Dilip Ghosh and Suvendu Adhikari come from. The TMC won 13 o...
04 May, 2021, 12.08 PM IST
Turncoats turn the tables on old-timers in West Bengal assembly electionsThe TMC, in its list of 291 candidates, has fielded around 16 turncoats who were either elected representatives of other parties or had joi...
17 Mar, 2021, 01.42 PM IST
Party facing hard time answering people's queries: TMC leaderAmong those participating in the outreach programme are senior party leaders and ministers Rabindranath Ghosh, Jyotipriyo Mullick, Abdur Re...
11 Aug, 2019, 05.19 PM IST
Election Commission doubles central forces in phase-2 polls in BengalEC has deployed around 15,000 troopers for 5,390 booths in the second phase; in the first, there were around 6,000 troopers for 3,844 booth...
17 Apr, 2019, 08.39 AM IST
83.79 per cent polling recorded in two LS seats of West BengalThe ruling TMC as well as the opposition BJP and the Congress complained that polling was not undertaken in a free and fair manner in the t...
12 Apr, 2019, 01.44 PM IST
TMC rebel as BJP nominee hopes to queer pitch for Didi“The battle was already won after the BJP declared an expelled TMC leader as its candidate,” state cabinet minister Rabindranath Ghosh told...
01 Apr, 2019, 08.12 AM IST
BJP fields candidate with 11 criminal cases, TMC seeks arrestAccording to a mandatory affidavit filed by Pramanik along with his nomination papers, he declared he has 11 cases pending against him, his...
26 Mar, 2019, 06.46 PM IST
Another bridge collapses in West Bengal, one injuredJust two days back, a section of a bridge in Kolkata collapsed killing one and leaving around 25 people injured.
07 Sep, 2018, 01.09 PM IST
4 killed in West Bengal panchayat poll violence, 41% votes polled till 1 pmThe four were killed in separate incidents of violence in North 24 Parganas, Nadia, South 24 Parganas and Murshidabad districts.
14 May, 2018, 03.43 PM IST
West Bengal Panchayat polls: Over 11% polling till 9 amOfficial says that 11.93 per cent polling was recorded till 9 am even as the polls was marked by sporadic incidents of violence in which se...
14 May, 2018, 01.34 PM IST
Leopard safari and deer park to come up in KhoyerbariThe State Government is also looking at putting together a bird watching centre at the same location.
20 Dec, 2016, 01.55 PM IST
31 villages hit by flood in Malda, 100 houses lost in erosionThe river breached a two km stretch of an embankment and took just an hour to destroy the area in which those houses were standing.
31 Jul, 2016, 12.49 AM IST
Over 84 per cent voter turnout in last phase of Bengal pollTwo Trinamool Congress candidates in Cooch Behar district faced the poll panel's ire for allegedly interfering with the electoral process a...
06 May, 2016, 06.38 AM IST
Political parties go all out to woo enclave votersThe 51 enclaves are spread across Dinhata, Mekliganj, Sitai, Sitalkuchi and Toofanganj Assembly constituencies, with over 14864 residents h...
04 May, 2016, 12.51 PM IST
- Left fields 150 new faces, 46 women for Bengal polls
The ruling Left Front dropped nine ministers and fielded 150 new candidates to take on the Trinamool Congress for the 294 assembly seats in...
14 Mar, 2011, 12.43 AM IST