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West Bengal assembly elections on April 23 and April 29, results on May 4

India, March 15 -- Elections to West Bengal's 294 assembly seats will be held in two phases on April 23 and April 29, and the results will be declared on May 4, the Election Commission of India (ECI) ... Read More


Mamata Banerjee begins dharna in Kolkata over electoral roll deletions

India, March 6 -- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday launched a dharna (sit-in) outside Kolkata's Esplanade metro station to protest the deletion of several million names during the ... Read More


Amit Shah promises 7th Pay Commission salary, age relaxation at Bengal rally

India, March 2 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday made a string of promises to West Bengal government employees and job seekers at a Bharatiya Janata Party rally, stating these would be implem... Read More


Writer who transformed shades of mundane urban life into iconic tales

Kolkata, Feb. 21 -- Bengali novelist Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay, known to millions by his pen name Sankar whose works transformed the mundane realities of a fast changing urban life into timeless narra... Read More


Writer who transformed shades of mundane urban life into iconic tales

Kolkata, Feb. 21 -- Bengali novelist Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay, known to millions by his pen name Sankar whose works transformed the mundane realities of a fast changing urban life into timeless narra... Read More


Eminent Bengali author Moni Shankar Mukhopadhyay, popularly known as 'Shankar', passes away at 92

India, Feb. 20 -- A towering figure in Bengali literature whose words mapped the ambitions and moral compromises of urban India, Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay, better known as Shankar, passed away on Frid... Read More


Rajya Sabha elections: TMC set to win 4 Bengal seats, BJP to secure one

India, Feb. 19 -- The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) is set to win four of the five Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal that will go to biennial polls on March 16, just ahead of the crucial assembly e... Read More


Rajya Sabha polls spur TMC churn in West Bengal as five seats fall vacant

India, Feb. 18 -- The Election Commission of India's (ECI) announcement on Wednesday, that elections to 37 Rajya Sabha seats across 10 states will be held on March 16, has set off intense political sp... Read More


BJP slams TMC as several que up at Yuva Sathi unemployment scheme camps in Bengal

India, Feb. 16 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday accused Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) of failing to secure the future of young people during its 15-year regime, as more people ... Read More


Unemployed people flock to Banglar Yuba Sathi camps in West Bengal

India, Feb. 15 -- Thousands of unemployed people queued up as the West Bengal government on Sunday began setting up camps to register applicants for monthly financial aid under the new 'Banglar Yuba S... Read More