Neither Pawar nor any other Opposition leader has so far indicated any eagerness to chart a separate course by snapping ties with the Congress.  Through the day – first during a meeting wi...

Trinamul Congress leaders Tanima Bhattacharya and Ratan Malakar filed their nominations on Wednesday as independent candidates for Calcutta Municipal Corporation polls. While the party nominated Bhat...

Two farmers in North Dinajpur district have accused BJP workers of setting afire paddy which was ready for harvest in their field as the duo recently deserted the saffron party and joined the Trinamul...

Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday urged the civil society to come forward and show the way, advise the political leadership of the country on the way forward, in her plea for all like-minded forces to clos...

The demand for a 'Greater Tipraland' is gaining momentum nowadays.  Tipraland is the name of a proposed state in India for the indigenous people in the tribal areas of Tripura. Some 1,50...

Some of her party colleagues are inclined to believe, and actually take pride in, describing Mamata Banerjee as more Left than the Left. Some, like state education minister Bratya Basu, at present tou...

The ruling TMC will tide over the challenges that come its way during the upcoming KMC polls by using the momentum of its victory in assembly elections, said former Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim, while s...

Sleepless Sir — As if people were not stressed enough, it seems they must now lose sleep over sleeping time. A recent poll found that up to 51 per cent Indians sleep for four to six hours only....

Raju Bista, the Darjeeling BJP MP, on Tuesday demanded in the Lok Sabha a national law for granting land rights to tea and cinchona plantation workers, literally snatching a topic from pro-Trinamul Co...

Bengal BJP was finally able on Monday to announce its list of 144 candidates for the Calcutta civic polls, and the names suggested the party’s attempts at course correction following the harsh l...