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Mamata to CEC: Halt SIR now, train BLOs first

India, Nov. 21 -- A day after lambasting the Election Commission of India for its "inhuman and unplanned" execution of special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, "inflicting distress, death"... Read More


TMC MP files counter-complaint against Bengal Governor Bose

India, Nov. 20 -- The battle between Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose and Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee reached the next level with the TMC leader on Wednesday filing a counter-complaint against... Read More


Darjeeling: Mamata protest letter to PM; BJP fumes

India, Nov. 19 -- The BJP has strongly criticised Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for writing to Prime Minister Narendra Modi opposing the functioning of the office of the interlocutor, appointe... Read More


Bengal Governor lodges police complaint against TMC MP

India, Nov. 19 -- The ongoing war of words between Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose and Trinamool Congress (TMC) Member of the Lok Sabha Kalyan Banerjee on Tuesday culminated into a police complaint bei... Read More


Bengal Governor Bose leads bomb squad to search at Raj Bhavan

India, Nov. 18 -- In a daylong drama hitherto unheard of in Bengal, State and central security forces, including bomb disposal squads, on Monday conducted a thorough search operation inside the Govern... Read More


Bengal will remain pipe dream for the BJP: TMC

Kolkata, Nov. 15 -- The Trinamool Congress has asserted that the Bihar election results will have no effect on Bengal, as it is Chief Minister "Mamata Banerjee who matters in Banga." The TMC's remarks... Read More


HC disqualifies TMC leader Mukul Roy from West Bengal Assembly

India, Nov. 14 -- In a first-of-its-kind order where the membership of an elected representative was judicially disqualified, the Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered the disqualification of senior... Read More


Mamata to construct Mahakaal temple, cricket stadium after Richa Ghosh

India, Nov. 11 -- With State elections little less than six months away and under severe attack from the Opposition BJP for appeasing the Muslims and undermining the interests of the Hindus in the Sta... Read More


SIR: ECI files FIR against BLAs, show cause notices to BLOs

India, Nov. 10 -- The Election Commission of India (ECI) has cracked the whip on the 'recalcitrant' Booth Level Officers and Booth Level Agents engaged in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process ... Read More


National Anthem row: TMC strongly condemns BJP claim

India, Nov. 8 -- The Trinamool Congress has strongly reacted to a BJP MP's statement that our National Anthem "Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka Jaya Hey" composed by Poet Laureate Rabindranath Tagore had bee... Read More