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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...

Kolkata, February 21 Former West Bengal minister and suspended TMC leader Partha Chatterjee, who was released on bail in November last year in connection with the SSC recruitment scam, visited his Behala West assembly constituency in the western part of the city on Saturday after a gap of more...

New Delhi, February 19 – Once considered an impregnable red stronghold, the representation of Communist parties in West Bengal in Parliament has been steadily declining over time. By April of this year, the state's Marxists will have no representation in either the Lok Sabha or the West Bengal...

Kolkata, February 19 Bishnu Prasad Sharma, a rebel BJP MLA, joined the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday, dealing a blow to the saffron camp just two months before the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections and creating further political tension in the Darjeeling Hills.Sharma, the...

Kolkata, February 19 Rebel BJP MLA Bishnu Prasad Sharma joined the ruling TMC in West Bengal on Thursday ahead of the assembly elections.Sharma, the MLA from Kurseong, joined the party at its headquarters in Kolkata.He had contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from the Darjeeling seat as an...

Kolkata, February 16 – Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, drew the attention of the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday to the alleged widespread issuance of fake birth certificates by the state administration in the Gazole Block of the...

Kolkata, February 16 Several parts of the city saw protests on Monday as job aspirants and anganwadi workers staged demonstrations demanding recruitment, better wages, and administrative action.At the headquarters of the Education Department, Bikash Bhavan, candidates who had cleared the...

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...