India, Sept. 27 -- In the dusty lanes of Rejinagar, a Murshidabad Assembly segment where Muslims make up more than two-thirds of the electorate, the Bharatiya Janata Party is doing something it rarely... Read More
India, Sept. 20 -- Rabiul Alam Chowdhury announced around 9 am that he intended to withdraw his nomination. Later he said he was contesting. A day after the Nandigram fiasco, West Bengal's bypoll dra... Read More
India, Sept. 20 -- Two decades ago, asked by journalist Karan Thapar whether the doors of the NDA were open to her, Mamata Banerjee did not hesitate. "Yes, of course. they are our natural ally," she s... Read More
India, Sept. 13 -- The Commission decides such cases on documented evidence of organisational control, membership records and the support of elected MPs and MLAs. The Election Commission of India (EC... Read More
India, Aug. 30 -- Suvendu Adhikari's government executed a series of aggressive administrative overhauls and high-voltage political manoeuvres, targeting entrenched Left-wing campus culture, announcin... Read More
India, Aug. 23 -- For over a decade, Union Home Minister Amit Shah's requests for land to fence India's border with Bangladesh in West Bengal went, in his own telling, unanswered. On Friday, standing ... Read More
India, Aug. 23 -- While the BJP distanced itself from the violence, the Left will argue that the events at Jadavpur cannot be separated from Bengal's altered political landscape. Three days of confro... Read More
India, Aug. 16 -- BJP cadres question growing role for former Trinamool leaders in Bengal's changing political order. In the tea stalls of College Street and the mofussil bazaars of West Bengal alike... Read More
India, Aug. 9 -- Nearly three months after the Bharatiya Janata Party swept to power in West Bengal, the Suvendu Adhikariled government is preparing to place before the Assembly a series of department... Read More
India, Aug. 2 -- A police raid last week on the Birbhum home of a stone trader's brother-inlaw, which turned up close to Rs 50 crore in cash and gold, has escalated into West Bengal's ruling BJP's sha... Read More