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  Battle for Nandigram: What's Mamata Banerjee's gameplan?

  Elections | March 11, 2021 12:59 IST

  The battle of Bengal has now shifted to the battle for Nandigram, where Didi will face her disciple in the fight of the year.

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  Bengal Polls 2021: Modi, Mithun Chakraborty, Suvendu Adhikari among BJP's 40 star campaigners list

  Elections | March 10, 2021 12:47 IST

  Ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) on Wednesday released the list party's 40-star campaigners for the first phase of polling. 

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  Bengal Polls 2021| Mamata Banerjee Vs Suvendu Adhikari.. Who will win In Nandigram?

  Politics | March 06, 2021 17:40 IST

  Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee may face a do-or-die contest in the state election with Suvendu Adhikari, her former top aide who resigned from the Trinamool Congress and joined BJP in December.

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  WB Assembly elections: Discussed candidates for phase 1, 2 polls, says Dilip Ghosh

  News | March 03, 2021 10:35 IST

  While speaking to media in Kolkata on March 02, West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Dilip Ghosh spoke ahead of the West Bengal Assembly polls.

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  Assembly polls: Who's BJP's 'dulha' in Bengal? asks Tejashwi Yadav

  News | March 02, 2021 12:01 IST

  While speaking to ANI in Kolkata on March 01, the leader of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Tejashwi Yadav spoke on upcoming West Bengal Assembly polls.

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  EC removes Bengal's ADG (law & order) Jawed Shamim a day after announcing poll dates

  India | February 27, 2021 22:27 IST

  The Election Commission on Saturday removed the Additional Director General of Police (Law and order) Jawed Shamim and brought in Jag Mohan in his place.

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  ECI to deploy 125 companies of central forces in West Bengal for assembly polls

  Elections | February 19, 2021 23:07 IST

  ​The Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided to deploy 125 companies of central forces in West Bengal by February 25 for the ensuing assembly elections, a senior official said on Friday.

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  Bengal polls 2021: PM Modi to address rally in Hooghly on Feb 22, Shah to visit Kolkata this week

  India | February 15, 2021 12:21 IST

  Ahead of Assembly polls 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit West Bengal to address a rally in Hooghly on February 22.

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  Shiv Sena to contest West Bengal assembly polls: Sanjay Raut

  News | January 18, 2021 14:33 IST

  The Shiv Sena has decided to contest the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal, party MP Sanjay Raut said on Sunday. He said the decision to contest the polls has been taken after holding discussions with Maharashtra Chief Minister and Sena president Uddhav Thackeray.

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  Ahead of Bengal polls, Narottam Mishra meets Amitabh Bachchan's mother-in-law in Bhopal

  India | December 12, 2020 8:35 IST

  After meeting Bhaduri, Jaya Bachchan's mother, Mishra told the media that he had spoken to her and urged her to convey a message to West Bengal that it should connect to the path of nationalism under leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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  Mamata says Land Acquisition Ordinance 'draconian'

  National | February 24, 2015 20:18 IST

  Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today demanded immediate withdrawal of the Land Acquisition Ordinance, terming it as ‘draconian'.“Immediately withdraw land ordinance. It is draconian. It will affect the farmers. We have always opposed

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  78.3 Per Cent Voting In Bengal

  India | April 27, 2011 21:51 IST

  Kolkata, Apr 27: A total 78.3 per cent votes were cast during peaceful polling today in the crucial third phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections in 75 Assembly constituencies in three districts.The fate of

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  We Will Free Bengal From Misrule, Promises Sonia

  National | April 20, 2011 14:33 IST

  Nalhati (WB), Apr 20 :  Congress president Sonia Gandhi today claimed that West Bengal has been taken on a road of destruction under the 34-year Left Front rule and assured that the Congress-Trinamool alliance is

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  Somnath Free To Campaign For LF Candidates: Bose

  National | April 17, 2011 18:48 IST

  Kolkata, Apr 17 : Left Front chairman Biman Bose today said that former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, who was expelled from CPI(M), was free to campaign for LF candidates, while defending the charges made

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  TV Opinion Polls Project Majority For TMC-Cong In Bengal

  National | April 15, 2011 14:52 IST

  New Delhi, Apr 15 : The Trinamool Congress-Congress combine will secure comfortable majority in West Bengal assembly polls, two separate opinion polls projected on Thursday.According to the opinion poll carried out ORG for Headlines Today

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  Bengal CM Sweating It Out In Jadavpur

  National | April 14, 2011 13:30 IST

  Kolkata, Apr 14 :  Facing the task of steering the Left front out of harm's way in the West Bengal Assembly polls, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee also finds himself challenged by two former colleagues in

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  TC Rejects Cong Plea, Threatens To Release List

  National | March 17, 2011 8:00 IST

  Kolkata/New Delhi, Mar 16 : Rejecting Congress' plea to defer finalization of seat-sharing for West Bengal assembly polls till the return of AICC President Sonia Gandhi from abroad, Trinamool Congress today threatened to release the