Yashwant Sinha, once a BJP senior leader who became a regular critic of Modi, seemed to be in no mood for soul searching. He warned abusers outright. Never mock a loser in a democracy. It always entai...
Narendra Modi’s landslide win is “bad for India’s soul”, says The Guardian, while The Financial Times is more measured and recommends that “India’s re-elected premier must focus his effort...
The number of Muslim Lok Sabha MPs has increased marginally but their proportion remains far below the community’s share in the population, prompting an academic to regret the “deliberate denial o...
The BJP has secured 60.29 per cent of the votes of the polling personnel in Bengal, suggesting Trinamul’s appeal may have reduced among state government employees, who form the backbone of the admin...
By Snehamoy Chakraborty and Avijit Sinha
in Siliguri
Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to be magnanimous in the moment of his momentous victory on Thursday, promising to leave behind the acrimony of the poll campaign and run the country with “sarwam...
Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Friday criticised Trinamul for allegedly letting loose violence on the party's workers in the state since the Lok Sabha polls and said BJP would follow the 'tit for...
Locket Chatterjee’s final victory margin was over 72,000, but she was jittery even when she was ahead by over 65,000 votes and her supporters had started celebrating. She was convinced only when the...
North Bengal was draped in saffron on Thursday, swept up in a Narendra Modi wave that took the BJP to victories in seven of the region’s eight Lok Sabha seats and two of three Assembly bypolls held ...
Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday was set to form the government in Odisha for the fifth time in a row with his party sweeping the Assembly battle. His Biju Janata Dal (BJD) seemed set to win ...
The BJP’s stark rise in Bengal found fitting expression in the gritty bylane of 6 Muralidhar Sen Lane here on Thursday as the modest trappings of the two-storey party office were drowned out by cele...