The Shiv Sena has extended full support to the Trinamul Congress in the Bengal Assembly polls, saying the BJP was using “money, muscle and media” against Mamata Banerjee in an undemocratic...

Emotions should be recollected in tranquillity, or they run away in unintended directions. The minister of state for environment, forest and climate change, Babul Supriyo, may have expected laudatory ...

For political parties in West Bengal, a rally at the Brigade Parade Ground on the Calcutta Maidan has a special significance. For the Left, the significance has assumed the status of a special pilgrim...

Several banners were seen on Wednesday in Dabgram-Fulbari Assembly constituency, the seat of state tourism minister Gautam Deb, seeking a “son of the soil” as the Trinamul candidate for th...

The Trinamul Congress leadership in Nadia has started a booth-level drive using colour codes for voter preferences to get an estimate of the party’s strength and finalise its campaign strategy i...

Mamata Banerjee is purportedly ready with a list of Trinamul Congress candidates for all 294 Assembly constituencies, but she didn’t announce even on Wednesday the nominees for the first phase o...

The Congress on Tuesday agreed to allot seven seats in south Bengal to Abbas Siddiqui’s Indian Secular Front, but reiterated that it would field candidates in not less than 92 Assembly segments....

Akhilesh Yadav in the morning, Tejashwi Yadav in the evening. The Young Turks of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar politics on Monday threw their weight behind Mamata Banerjee in Bengal.  The expression ...

An impressive rally — the turnout at the first public meeting of the coalition featuring the Left Front, the Congress and the Indian Secular Front was sizeable — need not translate into el...

The Trinamul Congress has countered BJP’s claim that Bengal suffers from a lack of industrialisation and joblessness by touting numbers thrown up from bank lending to small- and medium-scale ind...