Bengal: Polling for 4 municipal corporations' elections 'peaceful', over 60pc voter turnout recorded till 3 PM"Polling is being held peacefully. No incident of violence has been reported. We have taken a note of some disturbances from these municipa...
12 Feb, 2022, 03.31 PM IST
Election Commission reschedules polls to 4 municipal corporations in Bengal to Feb 12 amid rising Covid casesAccording to a notification issued by the SEC, polls to Siliguri Municipal Corporation, Chandernagore Municipal Corporation, Bidhannagar Mu...
15 Jan, 2022, 03.24 PM IST
With Baichung Bhutia in fray, Siliguri poised for interesting contestBaichung, who had campaigned for Bhattacharya in 2011, appeared in a new role this time and is toiling hard to cement his mass contact.
14 Apr, 2016, 11.24 AM IST
Panchayat by-polls in Bengal: CPM retains no.1 opposition spotBengal BJP is upset with its performance in Saturday's by-elections, the results of which were announced on Wednesday.
09 Oct, 2015, 10.32 AM IST
Asim Dasgupta to lead CPM in race for bidhannagar civic bodyThe CPM declared that former finance minister Asim Dasgupta will be its mayoral candidate for the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) e...
14 Sep, 2015, 10.14 AM IST
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to take action against non-performersMamata Banerjee gave a clear indication that she will no longer entertain those party leaders whose performance is not up to the mark.
12 Jun, 2015, 11.08 AM IST
Ashok Bhattacharjee, Ramchandra Dom get tickets to CPM state secretariatThe party inducted Ashok Bhattacharjee and Ramchandra Dom, who were made permanent invitees to the apex body of CPM's Bengal unit.
22 May, 2015, 11.00 AM IST
New CPI-M state secretariat formed in Bengal, Asok Bhattacharya made permanent inviteeCPI-M's 2-day state committee meeting was attended by general secratory Sitaram Yechuri, Prakash Karat and former CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharje...
21 May, 2015, 04.59 PM IST
Mamata routs BJP, CPI(M) in Bengal's civic pollsMamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress on Tuesday experienced a sweeping victory in the civic elections held on April 18 and 25.
28 Apr, 2015, 04.25 PM IST
Trinamool Congress leads in 80 seats in 144-member Kolkata Municipal CorporationTrinamool Congress surged ahead in civic polls by leading in 80 out of 144 in the Kolkata Corporation and 67 of 91 Bengal municipalities.
28 Apr, 2015, 11.48 AM IST
TMC goons unleashed violence during KMC election: Ritabrata BanerjeeRitrabrata alleged that the TMC would again try to unleash violence during theApril municipal election in the state to scare away the voter...
19 Apr, 2015, 03.49 PM IST
Gorkha Janmukti Morcha to support BJP in SMC electionGorkha Janmukti Morcha announced its unconditional support to BJP in the upcoming Siliguri Municipal Corporation.
24 Mar, 2015, 12.13 PM IST
Former Congress Deputy Mayor of Siliguri joins BJPAgarwal, along with 38 members of Congress' student wing, Chhatra Parishad, and more than a hundred Trinamool Congress workers joined the s...
07 Nov, 2014, 06.45 PM IST
- Is Mamata Banerjee in a revengeful mood?
Mamata has perhaps not forgotten the Siliguri episode in which the Congress got the post of mayor in the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SM...
10 Oct, 2009, 09.46 PM IST
- Didi to 'expose' Congress for its tie-up with Left
The war of nerves between the Congress and Trinamool Congress is set to intensify in the coming days as a fuming Mamata Banerjee attempts t...
03 Oct, 2009, 05.22 AM IST
- Cong ditches Trinamool in Siliguri
The first fissure in Congress-Trinamool relationship appeared in West Bengal’s Siliguri. In a development that may help the Left Front’s fi...
02 Oct, 2009, 06.18 AM IST
- Soon, Left will have nothing to lose
The Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance wrested the board winning 29 of the 47 seats in the Left turf.
16 Sep, 2009, 04.24 AM IST