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...
19 Mar, 2026, 12.17 PM IST
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...
21 Feb, 2026, 11.59 AM IST
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...
17 Oct, 2022, 05.40 PM IST
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...
17 Oct, 2022, 08.20 AM IST
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 ...
10 Mar, 2021, 10.05 AM IST
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...
09 Jan, 2021, 11.31 PM IST
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...
21 Sep, 2020, 09.58 AM IST
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...
07 Aug, 2020, 05.35 PM IST
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.
24 Mar, 2016, 10.50 AM IST
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 ...
28 Jun, 2015, 12.15 PM IST
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.
23 Jun, 2015, 11.16 PM IST
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...
06 Apr, 2015, 06.14 PM IST
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.
09 Feb, 2015, 04.00 AM IST
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.
11 Dec, 2014, 04.31 PM IST
- 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.
06 Nov, 2010, 09.57 PM IST
- 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...
28 Nov, 2009, 08.57 PM IST
- 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...
13 Jun, 2009, 09.14 PM IST