The Opposition's candidate for the next week's Presidential election, Yashwant Sinha, has cancelled his visit to Mumbai scheduled on Saturday in the wake of the Shiv Sena announcing support fo...

The opposition candidate in the July 18 presidential polls, Yashwant Sinha, held his first campaign strategy meeting on Wednesday at the NCP office here and said a "rubber-stamp president" w...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up the Centre and the Medical Counselling Committee for failing to fill 1,456 postgraduate medical seats under the all-India quota, saying they were “playin...

Two e-rickshaw drivers in West Burdwan’s Andal have come forward to ferry Madhyamik candidates from their homes to examination centres and back for free because many of them are too poor to affo...

The results of the civic polls to 107 municipalities held on February 27 — the official number was 108, but Trinamul won Dinhata uncontested — on Wednesday produced a rare outcome in Benga...

Bengal minister and Trinamul Congress leader Firhad Hakim on Wednesday said party dissidents contesting elections to two municipalities in the district could still evade disciplinary action if they ex...

Residents of a village in the tribal-dominated Odisha’s Sundergarh district have taken written undertakings from the candidates contesting for the post of sarpanch in the ensuing three-tier panc...

Withdrawal of nominations by Opposition candidates for municipalities for the February 27 civic polls continued on Saturday with the “cornered” Opposition going to the extent of sending se...

Disregard of Mamata Banerjee’s instructions regarding lists of candidates in some civic bodies in South 24-Parganas, such as Diamond Harbour and Budge Budge, on Wednesday prompted a stern warnin...

Protests in varying degrees were reported on Saturday from at least 19 of Bengal’s 23 districts over the lists of Trinamul candidates for civic elections (except Darjeeling) that were released a...