Additional payments being approved for MGNREGS, no shortage of funds: Union minister Giriraj SinghThe Union Rural Development Minister, Giriraj Singh, has dismissed criticisms of the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNR...
21 Oct, 2023, 04.03 PM IST
Congress war-weary, torn apart by infighting: TMC mouthpieceThe editorial piece, however, maintained that the TMC wants to take along everybody as it marches ahead. According to leaders of Bengal's r...
08 Dec, 2021, 05.17 PM IST
A few may quit, but Congress cadre strong, roots deep: Mallikarjun KhargeWe are a national party with a presence from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Saurashtra to West Bengal. Those who believe in our ideology stay w...
29 Aug, 2021, 07.24 AM 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
Turncoats preferred by TMC, BJP in Bengal poll battleThere is discontent over candidate selection within both the parties dominating the poll scenario in the state.
23 Mar, 2019, 11.52 AM IST
Factional feud in TMC may benefit BJPEven as Mukul Roy, the chief of BJP’s election management committee in Bengal said, that there were many in line, the TMC leaders have jump...
16 Mar, 2019, 07.45 PM IST
Discontent brewing in TMC over ticket distributionThe Congress and the CPI(M), the worst sufferers of defection in the state since 2011, said it is good that the TMC is "getting a dose of i...
16 Mar, 2019, 11.55 AM IST
West Bengal firmly under belt, Mamata Banerjee eyes Delhi centre stageOne of the bitterest critics of PM Modi and the BJP, she firmly pitched herself as a leader who could act as the glue to unite disparate po...
15 Mar, 2019, 10.48 AM IST
Bengal Congress in a dilemma over whether to go alone or with CPI(M)Once a formidable force in West Bengal, the CPI(M)-led Left Front has yielded much ground to the Trinamool Congress, but still has organisa...
02 Jan, 2019, 02.27 PM IST
Mamata Banerjee warns TMC workers against dissent, graftWB CM Mamata Banerjee asked party leaders in Nadia to work together and ensure that all Assembly seats in the district are won by TMC in th...
19 Dec, 2015, 08.02 PM IST
Civic polls West Bengal: TMC sees little threat from BJPParty insiders on Wednesday said that Mamata had asked her leaders to end infighting and put up a joint fight in the last leg of civic poll...
23 Apr, 2015, 04.13 AM IST
2014: A politically eventful year for IndiaThe states of Jharkahand, Maharashtra and Haryana witnessed a regime change and Jammu and Kashmir saw a hung Parliament in the recent elect...
31 Dec, 2014, 12.23 PM IST
Wrong decisions, overconfidence, lack of leadership: a suicidal Left is quite the Murphy's law textbookIn the course of five years, the fortunes of India's Left parties have come crashing down around their ears. Sure, in electoral terms, the ...
18 Apr, 2014, 09.29 AM IST
- FDI in retail: UPA's multiple dysfunctions created the perfect FDI storm
The fiasco has highlighted what was till recently only whispered about - infighting in the cabinet and a rapid diminution in the authority ...
08 Dec, 2011, 09.57 AM IST