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Kolkata, March 27 – The Trinamool Congress wrote to Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul on Friday, expressing concern over 11 party candidates whose cases have been referred for judicial adjudication, and whose status remains unclear.In the letter, written by West Bengal Minister of...

Kolkata, March 24 CPI(M) leader Dipsita Dhar expresses disappointment that the mother of the victim in the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case wants to contest the West Bengal assembly elections on a BJP ticket, but maintains her commitment to seeking justice for the traumatized medical intern...

Kolkata, March 18 A TMC delegation met West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal and raised questions regarding alleged discrepancies in the post-SIR electoral rolls and the "delay" in the publication of supplementary lists.The delegation, which included TMC MPs Mahua Moitra and...

Kolkata, March 17 A delegation from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) met with the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, on Tuesday, raising concerns about discrepancies in voter data and the delay in the publication of the supplementary electoral roll.The delegation, which...

Kolkata, March 16 – A day after the Election Commission announced the poll schedule for West Bengal, senior Trinamool Congress leader and state minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said that the law and order situation in the state is sound, as the election has been reduced to two phases from eight...

Kolkata, March 9 – A controversy erupted at a meeting between a delegation from West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress and the full bench of the Election Commission, headed by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, on Monday. According to a source from the election panel, a minister...

Kolkata, March 9 The ruling TMC in West Bengal on Monday alleged that its concerns regarding the SIR exercise were not heard during the pre-poll consultation meeting with the full bench of the Election Commission.Speaking to reporters after the meeting, state minister Chandrima Bhattacharya...

Kolkata, March 9 – The full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) in West Bengal, which will review the ongoing judicial proceedings on voter documents identified as having "logical discrepancies" as well as the preparedness for the upcoming crucial Assembly elections, will begin on...

Kolkata, March 8: On International Women's Day, women from the Trinamool Congress staged a protest against the increase in cooking gas prices, wearing black sarees.A procession was organized on Sunday, starting from Subodh Mallick Square, where participants wore black sarees and clothes to...

Kolkata, March 8 Activists from the TMC (Trinamool Congress) organized a march here on Sunday to protest against the increase in LPG prices, and banged utensils to symbolically highlight the difficulties faced by households.The procession began at Subodh Mullick Square in central Kolkata, with...

Kolkata, March 7 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said that the women's wing of the ruling Trinamool Congress will stage protests in the streets over the increase in LPG prices.The prices of domestic LPG and commercial cylinders were increased by a steep Rs 60 and Rs...

Kolkata, March 6 – The Trinamool Congress on Friday announced a three-member delegation that will meet the full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) in Kolkata on Monday.The delegation includes Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra from the Krishnanagar constituency in Nadia district, Rajya...

Kolkata, March 3 – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused Trinamool Congress leaders and a West Bengal Minister on Tuesday of making baseless allegations against the State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal.The BJP also claimed that the Trinamool Congress's decision to...

Kolkata, February 27, 2018 – Swapna Barman, the gold medalist in the heptathlon at the Asian Games, joined the Trinamool Congress on Friday.She is also likely to be a candidate for the Trinamool in any of the assembly constituencies in her native district of Jalpaiguri in the upcoming Assembly...

Kolkata, February 27 Swapna Barman, the athlete who brought international accolades to India in heptathlon, joined the Trinamool Congress at the party headquarters here on Friday.Barman, who belongs to the Rajbongshi community of North Bengal, received the Trinamool Congress flag from state...

Kolkata, February 16 – The Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, alleged on Monday that the new unemployment allowance scheme, 'Banglar Yuva Sathi', announced by the West Bengal Minister of State for Finance (Independent charge), Chandrima Bhattacharya...