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West Bengal winner list 2026: As BJP wins over 200 seats in stunning victory, check full list of TMC, Congress winners hereThe Bharatiya Janata Party secured a strong lead in West Bengal's election and bagged 207 seats. This outcome presents a significant challe...
Bhabanipur: Mamata's political refuge, BJP's psychological battleground in Bengal's prestige warBhabanipur, Mamata Banerjee's stronghold, faces a crucial election against Suvendu Adhikari. This contest is seen as a symbolic rematch of ...
Bhabanipur: Seat mirroring Bengal's political journey from Congress citadel to Mamata's fortressBhabanipur, a key Kolkata constituency, has a rich political history. It was once a Congress stronghold before becoming Chief Minister Mama...
Tacit TMC-BJP understanding dominating Bengal poll narrative: Congress leader Pradip BhattacharyaWest Bengal's political landscape faces a tough election. Senior Congress leader Pradip Bhattacharya points to a perceived understanding be...
Mother Language Day irony: Bengal's political discourse hits new low ahead of 2026 pollsThe political discourse in Bengal has sunk to unprecedented depths, where humor and cleverness have given way to personal insults and harsh...
History beckons as Congress gears up for 6th election contest for AICC chief in its historyAlso, with Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra not in the running for the party president's post, a non-Gandhi would be at...
Congress' presidential contests: Party, politics & power equationsWith the stamp of Gandhi-Vadra-led Congress establishment over Kharge's candidature, notwithstanding the family's projected neutrality, the...
Agony of the bhadralok: Amidst Bengal’s pitched political battles, this group finds itself on the sidelinesThe agonising dilemma of the gentle bhadralok now is this: The need to support Mamata Banerjee and TMC because it’s clear as daylight that ...
As the fight for political space gets brutal in West Bengal, a look at its violent pastLast month, BJP president JP Nadda’s convoy was attacked allegedly by TMC goons. Stone-pelting and open fight followed soon after. While it...
View: Narendra Modi needs Cabinet ministers who are competent and aren’t afraid to disagreeThe Cabinet may be suffering from a misallocation of portfolios. Nirmala Sitharaman is an upright and diligent finance minister with a back...
ET Analysis: Why Manoj Sinha has his task cut outBut the problem really is how to sequence the process of delimitation, elections and statehood. And that’s the challenge for Sinha, whose a...
SC/ ST pinch-hitters in BJP's forward defence in West BengalA case in point is Khanakul in Hooghly where the BJP nominee is Bikash Chandra Dolui. He takes on TMC MLA Iqbal Ahmed.
Eternal vigilance price for freedom: Coomi Kapoor's book on the EmergencyCoomi Kapoor, a reporter with the Indian Express during the emergency, has penned down all the excesses committed during that time, in her ...
Indira Gandhi had ordered for polls in 1977 on Intelligence report prediction: RK DhawanDhawan also said that it was the then West Bengal chief minister Siddhartha Shankar Ray who was the "architect" of Emergency.
Trinamool Congress resorting to politics of threat: Left Front"They have forced our candidates to withdraw their nominations at gun point and now they are wiping our writings from walls," Biman Bose sa...
Arun Singh likely to replace S Jaishankar as new US ambassador; non-diplomats too in raceDiplomats alone are not in the race for the coveted post. The probables include serving diplomats, politicians and even corporate leaders.
Indira Gandhi was not aware of Emergency provisions: Pranab MukherjeeThese details are revealed by the President in his book "The Dramatic Decade: the Indira Gandhi Years" that has just been released.
- Former WB chief minister S S Ray passes away
Former West Bengal chief minister Siddhartha Shankar Ray died at his south Kolkata residence on Saturday evening after a protracted illness.
- CPIM anxious over visit of a central team to Khanakul
The CPIM’s growing anxiety over the proposed visit of a central team to Hooghly’s Khanakul where a Trinamool activist was killed on Thursda...
- Mamata meets Jyoti Basu
After routing his party in the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal, railway minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturda...