Former FM, Ex-IPS, cricketer, santhali star likely to be part of Mamata cabinetAs many as 43 MLAs of Trinamool Congress, representing the different regions and the SC/ST communities, will take oath as ministers in the ...
Four MPs, actors, defectors, and an economist, BJP raises stakes in Bengal gameIn the ST-dominated Alipurduar constituency which has many tea estates, Lahiri is pitted against TMC’s sitting MLA Sourav Chakraborty who p...
West Bengal polls: Babul Supriyo, Locket Chatterjee among BJP's new list of candidatesAddressing the mediapersons here, BJP General Secretary Arun Singh said, "We are announcing the names of 27 candidates for the third phase ...
Centre plans PM-driven events; state to hold Didi-led paradesThe Centre has decided to celebrate Netaji’s 125th birth anniversary in a grand manner, and has set up a 85-member committee headed by the ...
How India, unlike the West, has recalibrated the Covid-19 debateThe timing, duration and efficacy of the nation-wide lockdown imposed earlier in the year may continue to be questioned in the years to com...
BJP to fight Bengal elections without projecting CM face: Kailash VijayvargiyaIn several states where the BJP has seized power, such as Haryana, Maharashtra, Manipur, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, the party didn't have any ...
Didi’s drama: How petulant CMs indulge in vengeful federalismThe past four years have witnessed a new, disturbing phenomenon: the increase in the petulance of state governments.
Mamata govt using another excuse to block Mohan Bhagwat’s programm: RSSMohan Bhagwat was scheduled to address a gathering on October 3 the century-old auditorium Mahajati Sadan, but the govt denied permission g...
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.
West Bengal: Will Congress and its B-team CPM step out for a 'jhappi' now?With the local CPM formally making an overture to the Congress, even the pretence of being hostile to ‘parliamentary cretinism’ has been sh...
CID to investigate missing TET question papers case in West BengalCID has taken over the probe into the case of missing question papers of the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) in West Bengal.
Haldia Petrochemicals Limited faltered on export commitment against advance license: SourcesHaldia Petrochemicals Limited, whose plant is under closure since last six months, failed to meet export commitment for which it had got ad...
Left leaders complain to CEC,demand steps for fair polls in WBLeft leaders from WB charged Trinamool Congress with organising attacks on and intimidating Left activists and indulging in poll malpractic...
- WB Polls: Buddhadeb may have to face battle at homeground
Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is in deep trouble in the Jadavpur assembly segment. He may win, but he might not too. For once, in ...
- Pulling out all stops in green revolution of east
Kumar said agriculture is key to the state's cherished goal of development at a session on the strategic direction for achieving sustainabl...
- To perk up food produce, UPA eyes eastern states
With agricultural productivity in other regions having plateaued, the Centre has now turned its attention towards the eastern belt.