All major political parties in Bengal are set to ask the state election commission to defer civic polls in the state in view of the novel coronavirus outbreak.Trinamul and the BJP will appeal to the e...

Congress and Left leaders in Siliguri and Cooch Behar have finalised a seat-sharing deal for the elections to the Siliguri Municipal Corporation and six municipalities in Cooch Behar district.On Monda...

The Jalpaiguri circuit bench of Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered the Bengal government to maintain “status quo” at Darjeeling municipality till April 30 on a petition that challenged the st...

The state election commission on Monday decided to put on hold polls to 100-odd civic bodies in Bengal because of Covid-19, triggering the possibility of appointment of administrators at the Calcutta ...

Elections to the Calcutta Municipal Corporation and 92 other civic bodies in Bengal are likely to be held in April, sources at Nabanna said. The final exercise on the part of the state administration ...

The Bengal government is all set to promulgate an ordinance for appointment of an administrator at the Calcutta Municipal Corporation as the existing law doesn’t provide for such a mechanism at the ...

Civic polls in West Bengal, including for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), have been postponed 'for the time being' in the wake of the novel coronavirus outbreak, a senior official said on Mon...

Every time an election approaches in the world’s largest democracy, be it to Parliament, assembly or local municipal corporations, the great Indian circus unfurls its act with melodramatic nuances. ...

Many civic chairpersons across Bengal are urgently transferring their trade licences in favour of close relatives in the run-up to municipal elections as the government has barred those with business ...

The Left Front and the Congress have finalised seat sharing for the 20-member Alipurduar municipality to which elections are due this summer.This is the first time that the Left and the Congress have ...