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Kolkata, March 13 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Friday that her government would establish new cultural and development boards for five communities.Banerjee, who made the announcement ahead of the assembly polls, said the boards will protect the customary rights and...

Kolkata, March 13 Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, said on Friday that he raised the issue of the "disrespect" shown to President Droupadi Murmu by the state government during his first meeting with the new Governor R N Ravi.Adhikari also praised the...

Kolkata, March 12 At a meeting at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's residence in Delhi on Thursday evening, the BJP finalized candidates for a large number of Assembly seats in West Bengal for the upcoming state elections.A senior Bengal BJP leader said the central election committee of the party...

Kolkata, March 12 – Former Intelligence Bureau (IB) super-cop and former Governor of Tamil Nadu, R.N. Ravi, was sworn in as the new Governor of West Bengal on Thursday morning.The ceremony began at 11:30 a.m. at Lok Bhavan (formerly Raj Bhavan) in Kolkata. The oath to the new Governor was...

Kolkata, March 9 Four TMC Rajya Sabha candidates and one BJP aspirant from West Bengal were virtually elected to the Upper House on Monday and received their winning certificates from the Election Commission.With the last day for withdrawal of nominations for the Rajya Sabha elections falling...

Kolkata, March 7 – Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Saturday criticised Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after President Droupadi Murmu expressed displeasure over the state government allocating a smaller venue for the 9th International Santal Conference...

Kolkata, March 7 The TMC wrote to the Election Commission, alleging procedural irregularities in the scrutiny of nomination papers of BJP's Rajya Sabha candidate Rahul Sinha, and claimed that "discrepancies" in his election affidavit were overlooked by the returning officer.In the March 6...

Kolkata, March 7 – The BJP alleged on Saturday that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's indefinite sit-in protest in Kolkata, which began on Friday afternoon, is another tactic to protect illegal immigrants on the state's voter list.Although the Trinamool Congress leadership, led by...

Kolkata, March 4 – An FIR was registered against Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, at a Kolkata police station on Wednesday, based on a complaint accusing him of making communally sensitive statements during the Dol Yatra festival.Adhikari celebrated...

Kolkata, March 3 – The West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced on Tuesday that Rahul Sinha, a former National Secretary and former State President of the party, would be its candidate for the Rajya Sabha from the state."Rahul Sinha nominated as BJP candidate for Rajya Sabha. He is a...

Kolkata, March 3 Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, participated in the 'Dol Yatra' festivities and a procession in Bhabanipur, the constituency of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Tuesday, and called for greater unity among Hindus.Participating in the...

Kolkata, March 2 – An application was filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, to obtain details regarding the performance of the former West Bengal Education Minister and ex-Trinamool Congress general secretary as an MLA from the Behala (Paschim) Assembly constituency in South 24...

Kolkata, February 28 West Bengal BJP leader Dilip Ghosh on Saturday said that former state DGP Rajeev Kumar was rewarded with a Rajya Sabha candidature by Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee for "being with her in all crises".Asked about Kumar, who retired as the state's director...

New Delhi, February 28 – The All India Trinamool Congress announced four candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections, triggering a wave of reactions across the political spectrum.The party announced the nominations of Babul Supriyo, Rajeev Kumar, Menaka Guruswamy, and Koel Mallick in a...

Kolkata, February 27 – The Calcutta High Court, on Friday, sought a report from the Kolkata Police regarding the alleged heckling of the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, by a group of booth-level officers (BLOs) in front of the office of the Chief Electoral...

Kolkata, February 24 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stated on Tuesday that the renaming of Kerala, which is governed by the Left Democratic Front (LDF), was due to an understanding between the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which also...

Kolkata, February 23 Mukul Roy, a key strategist once hailed as the "Chanakya" of West Bengal politics, defined an era of silent political coups and shifting loyalties as a master of defection, yet ironically, he came to embody the very politics he perfected.With the passing of the founding...

Kolkata, February 23 Mukul Roy, a key strategist who was once hailed as the "Chanakya of West Bengal politics," died early Monday after a prolonged illness, bringing to an end a career marked by both engineering and participating in defections.One of the founding members of the Trinamool...

Kolkata, February 21 The Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court ordered on Saturday the cancellation of leave for all judicial officers posted in different courts of West Bengal until March 9, to ensure compliance with the directions passed by the Supreme Court for the completion of the...

Kolkata, February 21 BJP Rajya Sabha MP Nagen Roy, also known as Ananta Maharaj, a leader of the Rajbangshi community, was felicitated at the International Language Day event in the city, which was attended by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.Maharaj, whose relationship with the...