After Pranab Mukhe-rjee’s exit as Union finance minister, the West Bengal Congress unit expects one of the state MPs to be inducted in the Union Cabinet. Adhir Chowdhury is the frontrunner.

Farmer suicides continued to haunt West Bengal as one more death was reported in Murshidabad on Monday.

The Congress high command on Friday gave permission to controversial Congress state minister Manoj Chakraborty who had raised the banner of revolt against chief minister Mamata Banerjee, to resign. The Congress party may or may not choose another party MLA to be given a ministerial berth in place of Mr Chakraborty.

In a horrific incident, a newborn baby died after the hospital staff used carbolic acid instead of disinfectant to clean him. His mother also sustained serious burn injuries.

Former chief minister and CPI(M) politburo member Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Thursday said thousands of CPI(M) cadres have fanned out in the villages to find out why the people did not vote for the Left Front in the last Assembly

On the eve of UPA chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s rally in Murshidabad, party district president Adhir Chowdhury openly campaigned for the rebel Congress candidates on Tuesday.

Murshidabad Congress strongman and Berhampore MP Adhir Choudhury on Thursday openly campaigned for rebel Congress candidates in Bhagwangola and Saga
rdighi, disregarding Pranab Mukherjee’s warning.

Peeved with Mamata Banerjee’s “highhanded and unilateral” allotment of seats to Congress, rebel Congress candidates have jumped into the fray to queer the pitch for Trinamul Congress candidates in Mur

Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said that there were some areas where land acquisition was “inevitable”. “Roads can only be built on land.